 Lafourcade has been the recipient of various literary awards in his country, such as the prestigious Municipal Prize, the Gabriela Mistral Prize and the Maria Luisa Bombal Prize, awarded to the best novel of the year.Self-described as "a sentimental anarchist and catholic in a state of wilderness", it is as a journalist and critic that Lafourcade is best known.For years he has written an editorial for the newspaper "El Mercurio" (the largest in the country), focusing on literature but with incursions into politics, cultural issues and subjects of impact upon the nation.