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Marta Rojas wins the Alejo Carpentier Novel Prize
Other prizes for Jorge Fornet and Pedro de Jesús in
this significant literary award
BY
PEDRO DE LA HOZ (Granma daily staff writer)
ON the eve of the 101st
anniversary of the birth of Alejo Carpentier today,
December 26, Marta Rojas joyfully received the news
that the Novel Prize bearing the name of the author
of Explosion in a Cathedral for this year had
been awarded to her.
Inglesa por un año
(English for One Year), a narrative set in the
period when the Cuban capital was seized from the
Spanish colony by the British Empire (1762-1763),
won our colleague the Carpentier Prize on the
decision of a jury comprising Miguel Barnet,
Humberto Arenal and Anna Lidia Vega Serova.
“There was much respect and
admiration between Alejo and myself. Over and above
what this literary prize means, I am moved to know
that the living spirit of Alejo is in every
revolutionary effort, in this gigantic work for
promoting a general and integral culture, which has
its principal promoter in Fidel,” Marta commented
after hearing of the jury’s verdict.
The prize is to be awarded
in the Havana stage of the 2006 Book Fair in the
Cabaña Fortress in February.
The other prizes went to
The sobrevida (The Survivor) by Pedro de Jesús
(short stories), decided by Antón Arrufat, Ana Luz
García and Raúl Aguiar; and Los nuevos
paradigmas: prólogo narrative al siglo 21 (The
New Paradigms: Narrative Prologue to the 21stt
Century), by Jorge Fornet (essay), awarded by
jury members Guillermo Rodríguez, Heredia and Helmo
Hernández. |
