Alejandro Arteaga Wins 2025 Xavier Villaurrutia Prize for 'Sala de máquinas'

Mexican writer Alejandro Arteaga won the 2025 Xavier Villaurrutia Prize for his collection 'Sala de máquinas'.

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On September 3, 2026, the Mexican Secretariat of Culture and the National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature (INBAL) announced that Alejandro Arteaga won the 2025 Premio Xavier Villaurrutia de Escritores para Escritores. ^[1] Alejandro Arteaga, a narrator, essayist, and editor, was awarded the 2025 Xavier Villaurrutia Prize for his work 'Sala de Máquinas'. ^[2] The jury described 'Sala de máquinas' as a fictional machine that demonstrates a hybrid capacity to overcome distances between genres through continuous assembly and transformation. ^[3] The jury, composed of Liliana Weinberg, Mónica Nepote, and Hugo Valdés, awarded the prize by majority vote to the collection 'Sala de máquinas' published by the editorial Gabinete portátil. ^[4] The jury described 'Sala de Máquinas' as a sample of poetic fiction that opens the possibility of literature as a game between determinism and freedom, technology and humanity, automatism and creation. ^[5] The collection contains twenty-one short stories featuring fantastical or absurd machines, including an electronic magnifying glass that solves crimes and a walking belt that aids discernment. ^[6] Alejandro Arteaga said that the prestige of a literary prize is constituted by the works and authors that have won it, noting that no prize in Mexico can be compared to the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize in that sense. ^[7]

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Alejandro Arteaga, a narrator, essayist, and editor, was awarded the 2025 Xavier Villaurrutia Prize for his work 'Sala de Máquinas'. · El Universal

The jury described 'Sala de máquinas' as a fictional machine that demonstrates a hybrid capacity to overcome distances between genres through continuous assembly and transformation. · Semanario ZETA

The jury, composed of Liliana Weinberg, Mónica Nepote, and Hugo Valdés, awarded the prize by majority vote to the collection 'Sala de máquinas' published by the editorial Gabinete portátil. · Semanario ZETA

The jury described 'Sala de Máquinas' as a sample of poetic fiction that opens the possibility of literature as a game between determinism and freedom, technology and humanity, automatism and creation. · El Universal

The collection contains twenty-one short stories featuring fantastical or absurd machines, including an electronic magnifying glass that solves crimes and a walking belt that aids discernment. · Semanario ZETA

Alejandro Arteaga said that the prestige of a literary prize is constituted by the works and authors that have won it, noting that no prize in Mexico can be compared to the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize in that sense. · El Universal

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