Casa de las
Américas Prize winners
Colombia was the big winner in the 55th
edition of the renowned Casa de las Américas
literary competition. Two Colombian authors were
awarded the important prizes for Short Story and
Artistic-Literary Essay.
|
Colombian Margarita García Robayo was
awarded the 2014 Casa de las Américas
Short Story Prize. |
The collection of seven stories entitled Cosas
peores, by Margarita García Robayo, and the
essay José Lezama Lima: estética e historiografía
del arte en su obra crítica, by Carlos Orlando
Fino Gómez, were the Colombian prizewinners.
Joining these honorees in other categories were
Blanco con sangre negra, (Theater) by
Mexico’s Alejandro Román Bahena; Marighella: el
guerrillero que incendió el mundo, by Mário
Magalhães, in the Brazilian Literature category; and
the research study Fear of a Black Nation: Race,
Sex and Security in Sixties Montreal from
Jamaican David Austin in Caribbean Literature
written in English or Creole. The Women’s Studies
Prize was awarded to La loca inconfirmable.
Apropiaciones feministas de Manuela Sáenz
(1944-1963), by Venezuelan Mariana Libertad
Suárez.
|
Dramaturge Alejandro Román Bahena, from
Mexico, was honored with the theater
prize. |
Two Cubans received honorable mentions,
dramaturge Abel González Melo for his play
Sistema, and researcher María Antonia Borroto
Trujillo for the literary study, Julián del
Casal: modernidad y periodismo.
The Casa de las Américas additionally recognized
important works published in the region with
Honorary Prizes, including the essay Che Guevara
y el debate económico en Cuba, by Brazilian Luiz
Bernardo Pericás (the Ezequiel Martínez Estrada
Prize); the poetry collection Explicaciones no
pedidas, by Colombian Piedad Bonnett (the José
Lezama Lima Poetry Prize); and the novel Arrecife,
by Mexico’s Juan Villoro (the José María Arguedas
Prize for narrative).
FOTOS:
1.-premio1:
