Nicaraguan Gioconda Belli won the XXXII Reina Sofia Prize for Ibero-American Poetry. According to the jury’s decision, made public this Monday, creative expression, freedom and poetic courage.
Spanish National Heritage and University of Salamanca They give this award every year, which is the most important for Spanish and Portuguese poetry and is equipped with 42,100 euros. to recognize the whole of a living author’s work because of its literary value, common cultural heritage Latin America And Spain.
Ana de la Cueva, president of National Heritage, and Ricardo Rivero, rector of the University of Salamanca, announced the award for Belli (Managua, 1948). Daniel Ortega is in exile in Spain after the Government renounced his citizenship. Cervantes Award Sergio Ramirez.
The jury, who gave the award unanimously, also importance in contemporary culture Nicaragua It consolidates the prestige of one of the greatest countries of Spanish-American poetry.
“It was not an easy decision,” said the head of Patrimonio Nacional, explaining that they had chosen Belli from among 49 nominations, “reflecting the diversity of our letters and the prestige of the award.”
University of Salamanca rector, a Nicaraguan writer a cadre of “great poets” who defend the values championed by institutions and universities and fight against tyranny.
jury of the XXII Reina Sofia Award, president of National Heritage, rector of the University of Salamanca; director RAE, Santiago Munoz Machado; Luis García Montero, Director of the Cervantes Institute.
Also by Olvido García Valdés, who was awarded in the previous edition; Mexican writer Jorge Luis Volpi; poet Raquel Lanseros; Ana Santos Aramburo, director of the National Library; M. Isabel Toro Pascua and Francisco Bautista, representatives of the Department of Spanish and Ibero-American Literature at the University of Salamanca; Selena Millares, professor at the Autonomous University of Madrid, and Araceli Iravedra, director of the Ángel González Chair at the University of Oviedo.
Gioconda Belli will receive the award Queen Sofia next autumn