Holguín writer wins Ibero-American Short Story Award
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Holguín writer Emerio Medina won this Wednesday the Julio Cortázar Ibero-American Short Story Prize in its 21st edition for the story “The man who came to read.”
According to Dazra Novak, writer and member of the jury, Medina's text offers a very well-crafted story about literary creation, reading, and the blurred borders of the narrative fiction text.
Novak added that the work also shows an effective use of language and as a secret tribute to Cortázar, the story, without losing its authenticity, uses certain devices of the great Argentine fabulist, such as uncertainty.
It is a story in which renunciation and possibility are contrasted, the temptations of a distant future and the chains of a tangible and overwhelming reality.
Also received mentions the books “Los apostadores”, by Yunier Riquenes; "The beautiful night does not let sleep", by Ronel González, and "The Gutenberg paradox", by Ernesto Pérez; while “The dead are invisible,” by Colombian Odymar Varela, and “No more flowers, captain,” by Peruvian Rolando Alexander Rivera De los Ríos, were recognized in that section.
Emmanuel Tornés, writer, essayist and member of the jury, said that on this occasion more than a thousand stories were presented by authors from all over Latin America, including some who reside outside the region.
Reading the texts allowed us to have a vision of the story in Latin America, where young people stand out as creators of those works that trust in an event like the one awarded today, said Tornés.
The Julio Cortázar Ibero-American Short Story Prize was created at the initiative of the prestigious Lithuanian intellectual Ugné Karvelis and has the Cuban writer and ethnologist Miguel Barnet as its honorary president.
Institutions such as the Cuban Book Institute, the House of the Americas, the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba, and the Ministry of Culture of the Argentine Republic sponsor the event. (Source: ACN)
