Throughout its 42-year history, the Herralde Novel Prize – worth 25,000 euros – has only been shared once. We have to go back to 1994 to find two winners, Pedro Zarraluki and Carlos Perellón. Three decades later they have been Chita Rubert and Cynthia Rimsky were chosen by the jury to share, ex aequo, the flagship award of the Anagrama publishing house, with the novels Key Biscayne Facts and Clear and confusing, two novels that "stand out for their eccentricity, for their risk and for going beyond the obvious," said the writer Juan Pablo Villalobos on behalf of the jury.