WESTPORT — A Venezuelan writer’s multi-generational chronicle of love and revolution in his homeland, has been selected as the recipient of this year’s “Westport Prize for Literature” presented by the Westport Library.

Alejandro Puyana’s novel, “Freedom is a Feast,” is his first, and was selected over two other finalists in this year’s Westport Prize for Literature competition.

Puyana will be presented with the award at 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 21, during “StoryFest,” the library’s annual literary festival. The award carries with it a $10,000 prize.

“I’m so extremely honored,” Puyana said in the library’s  statement announcing the award. “Venezuela is going through a rough time right now, with people out on the streets fighting for freedom and democracy. It means so much to have this Venezuelan story highlighted, at a time when we need voices everywhere to stand with us.

“I’m so grateful to the Westport Prize for Literature committee for this great gift, and hopeful that it’ll help put the book in the hands of many more readers,” he added.

In 2023, the literature award’s inaugural year, novelist Zadie Smith was honored for “The Fraud,” named one of the year’s best books by The New York Times and others.

The three-day StoryFest is a wide-ranging program of panel discussions and workshops featuring a lineup of more than 50 writers and literary figures, including Joyce Carol Oates, Roxane Gay, Christopher Golden, Claire Messud and Peng Shepherd.

For more information, call the Westport Library at 203-291-4800.