Alfaguara is a Spanish-language publishing house that serves markets in Hispanic America, Spain and the United States.

It was founded by the Spanish writer and Nobel Prize winner Camilo José Cela.

[3] In March 2000 Santillana, which publishes over 117 million books each year, was acquired by the Spanish conglomerate PRISA.

[4] In 2014, PRISA sold Santillana's trade operations to Penguin Random House.

[6] The prize, launched in 1998, goes to an unpublished work of fiction in Spanish.