Haitian novelist and journalist Gary Victor has won the Cuban Casa de las Americas literary prize, in the category Caribbean literature in French or Creole, for his 2010 novel Le sang et la mer (The Blood and the Sea).

Born in Port au Prince in 1958, Gary Victor has published seven collections of short stories and eight novels, particularly exploring the cultural and historic tensions of Haitian society. His novel, Le sang et la mer, chronicles a tragic love story set in the mythical lore and class divides of his native city. A recipient of many literary prizes, Victor is also a professor, a columnist in the Le Nouvelliste and the translator of the Haiti Kreyol edition of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince).

This year's competition opened in February 2011 with 377 entries from Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, Colombia and Uruguay.