• Submitted by: Luis Manuel Mazorra
• Arts and Culture
• 01 / 31 / 2012

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On 26 January were Entrust in Havana literary awards Casa de las Americas 2012. The country with the most awards was Argentina, whose writers took three prizes and several honorable mentions. Intellectuals were also winners Brazil, Haiti, Peru, Ecuador and Cuba.

Havana, Jan 26 (EFE) .- Writers of Argentina won three awards and several mentions of the literary competition Casa de las Americas-2012 proclaimed today in Havana, and the winners were also intellectuals in Brazil, Haiti, Peru, Ecuador and Cuba.

In this edition of the award 53 works competed in the categories of drama, literature for children and youth, Brazilian literature and Caribbean literature in French or Creole.

Argentine writers and Laura Ignacio Apolo theater Gutmann won in the book "The Tao of Sex", valued by the jury as a text "audacious and original" that leads to dialogue with the universe of human relations.

Another author Argentina, Josefina Porcelli, won in literature for children and youth with his novel "My brother came from another planet a windy day," in which evaluators stressed the "sensitivity and skill narrative" that describes the difference physical loss of a loved one.

The book "Do not die" by Mariela Filkenstein, and "No dream," Charles Marianidis, both from Argentina, received mention in those genres in both fiction prize "José María Arguedas' went to his compatriot Ricardo Piglia .

Brazilian literature was distinguished in the play "O Aluf Rufino. Traffic and liberdade escravidao no black Atlantic (1822-1853)", Joao Jose Reis, Flavio dos Santos, and Caribbean literature in French or Creole awarded the "Le sang et la mer ", the Haitian Gary Victor.

The special prize "Studies on the black presence in contemporary America and the Caribbean," which was convened this year for the first time, I received the title "In Praise of Altea and the paradoxes of race", the Cuban sociologist Zuleica Romay.

Failure selected the title "The Trouble with unity: Latino politics and the creation of identity" of Cristinba Beltran to win the prize for the Study of Latinos in America.

Also, honorary awards of the contest, the poetry "José Lezama Lima", was given the book "Work true, poetry anthology," Humberto Binuesa, Ecuador, and the essay "Ezequiel Martinez Estrada" was awarded to "Promise and discontent of modernity", the Peruvian Raul Bueno.

Among the 22 jurors from twelve countries that evaluated the 377 were competing works Brazilian filmmaker Orlando Senna, Victor Winer Argentine playwright, narrator and essayist Italo-Spanish Carlo Frabetti, American writer Renato Rosaldo, Cuban economist and political scientist Esteban Morales French poet Francis Combes and actress, poet and playwright Salvadoran Jorgelina Cerritos.

The Uruguayan writer and journalist Eduardo Galeano was the special guest of the Literary Award 2012 Casa de las Americas and inaugurate the days of the event activities started on 16 this month.

The program was developed for eleven days with panels of scholars, conferences and presentation of the winners in 2011, including "The boot on the dead bull," the Cuban Emerio Medina Peña (story), and "Your Step", the Argentine Carlos Enrique Bischoff (testimonial literature).

Since its inception in 1959, after the triumph of the revolution led by the now former president Fidel Castro, Casa de las Americas Prize is considered one of the most historical awards and prestige in the region, and has received more than 25,000 original 52 countries.