Premio Anual de Historia José Gabriel García 2017. Essay. Winner of the Annual History Essay Prize at the 2017 Santo Domingo Bookfair. Carlos Esteban Deive (1935) is an important Dominican historian and fiction writer. His other history works include Las culturas afrocaribeñas (2015), Y tu abuela donde está: el negro en la cultura y la historia dominicanas (2013), Los dominicanos visto por los extranjeros, 1730-1929 (2009), El festín de los generales (2007), Tangomangos: contrabando y piratería en Santo Domingo, 1522-1606 (1996), La esclavitud del negro en Santo Domingo, 1492-1844 (1980) and Vodú y magia en Santo Domingo (1979), among others. For his fictional work Deive has received several literary prizes including the 1963 Premio Nacional de Novela for Tendencias de la novela contemporánea and the Siboney prize twice in 1978 for his novel Las devastaciones and for his essay Heterodoxia e inquisición en Santo Domingo.