Holguín writer won a mention in Casa de las Américas Award
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Emerio Medina Peña, a resident of the Holguín municipality of Mayarí, won a mention in the short story category in Casa de las Américas Award 2023, for his work Welcome, Mr. Kerry.
Medina deserved this prize in 2010 for his book La bota sobre el toro muerto, for which he was also recognized with the Aldabón de la Periquera, symbol of the city of Holguín.
The book Welcome, Mr. Kerry comprises seven stories among which reading the homonymous piece can be particularly recommended, in addition to the texts The Crows fly at dawn, The man who came to read and Conversation in a cafe in Paris.
In the 64th edition of Casa, the Short Story award went to the book “We are all an island”, by the Colombian Luis Felipe Mestre, while La Noche de la casa, by the Venezuelan Esmeralda Torres, also received a mention.
The outstanding Holguín writer has also achieved the City prizes in Literature, the Julio Cortázar Ibero-American Short Story Contest Prize in 2009, the Alejo Carpentier Prize in 2016, among others that give prestige to this region of eastern Cuba.
