Palau Altea will host the Altea Literature and Research Awards Gala Dinner next Saturday, after spending two years at other locations and other dates with less capacity due to the coronavirus pandemic.
awards recognized as One of the most prestigious languages of the Valencian languagereach their sixth edition and at the same time 131 works were presented, 9 of them are eligible for the “Francesc Martínez i Martínez Essay and Research Award”, 45 for the “Altea Prize for Children’s and Young Folk Literature” and 77 for the “Carmelina Sánchez-Cutillas Novel and Creative Prose Award”. “A very high turnout that characterizes previous editions merge this contest”, as noted by Altea Cultural Council Member Aurora Serrat this Wednesday.
Also at the gala painter Juana Frances to be honored posthumously (Altea, 1924 – Madrid, 1990) with the Premi Estela d’Honor award Recognize the memory of Altean creators or authors What has now disappeared has become vitally prominent and perfected in literature, art or research.
Celebrating the Altea Literary and Research Awards Gala is an event anticipated every Palm Sunday eve. this the pandemic had prevented this gala dinner from being held During the editions of 2020 (the prizes were awarded at the Social Center on 12 November of that year) and 2021 (the 19th of that year at the Plaça de l’Aigua), but will meet again this year “Rescuing traditional history and the utility of normalcy At the Espai Mirador del Palau Altea Center d’Arts, from 8:00 p.m. this Saturday”, as noted by Joan Borja, coordinator of the literary competition.
jurors
Last January 31 was the deadline for acceptance of originals submitted for these awards. Juries of different sections of the competition “For three months they did some important reading, with the variety and works that they can choose from their respective awards”, says Joan Borja.
This explains for the formation of the jury, in each edition, the organization requests the “Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua” to appoint one of its academics for each of the sections subject to the competition. Another member is always the winner of the previous year’s edition, according to the rules. In the case of ‘Premi Francesc Martínez i Martínez’, the jury is completed by a person with the competence determined by the Juan Gil-Albert Cultural Institute; and finally, in the ‘Premi Altea’ and ‘Premi Carmelina Sánchez-Cutillas, the third member is selected from among the prestigious experts from the University of Alicante”.
In line with this configuration, Borja claims that “in this year’s edition, ‘Premi Francesc Martínez i Martínez d’Assaig i Investigació’ Irene Ballester Buigues (Alicante Cultural Institute Juan Gil-Albert) will participate as Jury Members. Jordi Bosch Canalias (previously) edition winner) and Angels Gregori i Parra (Valencian Academy of Language). (winner of the previous edition) and, for their part, the jury of the ‘Premi Carmelina Sánchez-Cutillas de Novel·la i Prosa Creativa’ consists of Elvira Cambrils i Miralles (winning author of the previous edition), Joaquim Espinós Felipe (University of Alicante) and Carmen Manuel Cuenca ( Valencian Language Academy)”.
12.000 Euro award and finalist works
Altea Awards, Called annually by the Altea City Council Together a total donation of 12.000 euro €3,000 for the Francesc Martínez i Martínez d’Assaig and Research Award, €4,000 for the Children’s and Young Folk Literature Award, and the Carmelina Sánchez Cutillas Award for Creative Novel and Prose entirely by the Caixaltea Foundation.
The fundamentals stipulate that for each modality, the jury has to select three finalist works, and one of them will be the winner. In case of absence of three days for the event, from the organization “Premis Altea” it turned out that the event happened. “Francesc Martínez i Martínez Essay and Research Award” They were selected as the finalist works for “a well-documented research work on the lineage of the lords of Xaló, an interesting emotional journey through the past seventy years of history and society in the Land of Valencia, and a defense of dietetics as a fundamental species”. to understand contemporary literature,” said Aurora Serrat.
“As for the subjectAltea Children and Youth Literature Award “, Joan Borja, “a selection of finalist works income full of mystery and supernatural elements about a love that transcends time and a desire for revenge, the story of an unequal love affair that shows signs of emotional manipulation and psychological abuse from the start (and quickly leads to gender violence), and in Valencia, where the narrator replaces the description of his memories with the process of creating the novel he is writing. meta-literary novel”.
Finally, as a reference “Carmelina Sánchez-Cutillas Novel and Creative Prose Award”, Borja states that the three selected works are composed of “a letter novel with elements of intrigue, set in the post-war period when the economic and ideological interests of the winners conflict; an intimate diary with a poetic look that questions the reader about the fundamental problems of human existence; and a classic novel that reformulates the theme of escaping the civilized world in search of nature as a bastion of purity, meaning and abundance”.
Institutions and tribute to Juana Frances
“Altea Literary and Research Awards” achieved in a little over five years To consolidate himself as one of the most prestigious in the Valencian literary circuitGeneralitat Valenciana through Altea City Council, Caixaltea Foundation, Aila Edicions, Juan Gil-Albert Cultural Institute, Valencian Language Academy, Càtedra Enric Valor of the University of Alicante and, since 2020, the General Directorate for Language Policy and Multilingualism Management.
Joan Borja said, “Just one of the prizes that offers no possibility of surprise, intrigue or uncertainty, as you have to wait until the end to know the winners of the three methods, ‘Estela d’Honorary Award. In this year’s edition you want to respect, With the award of this award, it is given to the memory and creative legacy of the painter Juana Frances, originally from Altea. In this sense, according to the organization, the unmistakable personality of the painting by Juana Frances, the great Valencian painter of the 20th century, will be one of the threads that guide the aesthetics of the gala.”
Vanessa Gregori and the Blue Orchestra
Councilor Aurora Serrat suggested this during the gala. photos will be projected on giant screens Juana gave information about Frances and her works and a part of the dinner. “literature” menu In the famous work of Carmelina Sánchez-Cutillas, the liturgical appearance of bread and melva will be included symbolically, as it is already a classic.Brittany matter’.
In addition, another fixed point about the event is that the gala, as in all previous editions, Live music from the Blue Orchestraa formation between former jazz orchestras and current “big bands”, the Altean group that drinks from an indigenous musical tradition stemming from the repertoire and fortunately preserves the scores of the legendary Orquesta Azul. 1949 and 1963. Likewise, the action will be presented and conducted by Vanessa Gregori, a journalist of the regional channel À Punt, a native of Altea, as in the previous edition”.