Aquileo J. Echeverría National Prize for Best Novel 2020 Aquileo J. Echeverría National Prize for Best Story 2022 Larissa Quesada Arroyo (born 1998), known by her pen name Larissa Rú, is a Costa Rican writer of speculative fiction, horror, and fantasy.

While still a student at the University of Costa Rica, in 2020, she published her first novel, Cómo sobrevivir a una tormenta extranjera.

[3] This work won the Aquileo J. Echeverría National Prize, the highest cultural honor in Costa Rica, for best novel of that year.

[1][3] Rú had begun writing the novel at 17 years old while traveling abroad and feeling a sense of vulnerability and loneliness due to not fitting in.

[3] It deals with a young Venezuelan immigrant who, while suffering a pulmonary illness, is sent to Europe under false pretenses.