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Mayor José Ballesta receives the jury of the LXIII National Critics Award, one of the most prestigious awards in the Spanish literary scene, which counts among its winners names like Cela, Delibes, Ana Matute, Javier Marías and Aramburu.
Tomorrow the Jury meets in the Moneo building, and after its deliberation, the winners of the LXIII National Critics Award will be announced.
The mayor of Murcia, José Ballesta, received today in the Plenary Hall the jury of the LXIII Critics' Prize, which fails tomorrow in Murcia, one of the most prestigious awards in the Spanish literary scene, which counts among its winners with names like Cela, Delibes, José Hierro, Ana Matute, Javier Marías or Aramburu.
The event was attended by the president of the Spanish Association of Literary Critics, Angel Basanta, the president of the International Association of Literary Critics, the Italian Neria de Giovanni, and the members of the Jury, made up of representatives from different Spanish institutions such as the University and newspapers with literary supplements of national circulation.
The mayor José Ballesta warmly welcomed the members of the jury and stressed that "Murcia has been throughout its history a crossroads, a crossroads of civilizations that has inspired great artists and writers.
The poet Jorge Guillén defined this city as 'the only place in the world where you can breathe the light' ".
"This is a city that wants to love culture, which wants to base its radical transformation on deep cultural elements rooted in this society, which has a very long history, because we are the result of a long past of efforts and generosity of generations of Murcians," he stressed. .
Tomorrow the prize in the Moneo fails
There are about 40 works selected as finalists in the category of narrative and 45 in poetry, all published in 2017 and selected by voting members of the association.
Of the finalists will be the eight winners: four in each of the languages ​​(Castilian, Catalan, Basque and Galician) in the category of narrative and four in the poetry.
Tomorrow the Jury will meet in the Moneo building, and after its deliberation, the winners of the 2017 Critic's prize will be announced at a press conference on the Moneo's terrace.
In total, there are 21 critical members of the jury who, in addition, have in this edition as a guest personality Neria de Giovanni, president of the International Association of Literary Critics.
History of the third oldest literary award in Spain
The Critics' Prize is the third oldest literary prize in Spain, after the Nadal and the Planet Prize, and the only one in which works written in the four languages ​​of the state (Castilian, Catalan, Basque and Galician) are awarded.
It is among the most prestigious of the Spanish literary scene and will fail in Murcia at the initiative of professors and Murcia critics who raised their proposal to the Spanish Association of Literary Critics.
The history of this award began in 1956, in the post-war Spain, from the proposal of a group of literary critics who decided to create an independent award, of recognized prestige, in order to counteract the influence of commercial awards.
Thus, this literary prize was organized every year, which counts among its winners the most important writers of poetry and fiction (novel and short story) from Cela, Torrente Ballester and Delibes to Luis Mateo Díez, Merino and Javier Marías, passing through Ana Matute, Vargas Llosa, Aldecoa, Sanchez Ferlosio, Marsé, Ricardo Piglia, Cristina Fernandez Cubas and Aramburu, among other great storytellers of yesterday and today;
and from Vicente Aleixandre, Luis Rosales and Blas de Otero to José Ángel Valente, José Hierro, Caballero Bonald.
Francisco Brines, Claudio Rodríguez and María Victoria Atencia, including Guillermo Carnero, García Montero and Luis Alberto de Cuenca, among other front-line poets.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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