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In "Convalescence" building was Tuesday welcomed the ruling and the delivery of "Poetry Prize XIII Denise Garcia of the University of Murcia" and the presentation of the 2014 edition of the award.
The event was attended by José Antonio Cobacho, Rector of the University; Mercedes Farias Batlle, Vice Chancellor of University Extension and eGovernment; Denise Garcia, writer giving his name to the award; Pascual Ortiz Martínez, Managing Cajamurcia Foundation, which sponsors the award, Francisco Javier Díez de Revenga Torres, Chairman of the Jury, and Isabelle Garcia Molina, Director of Poetry Hall of said institution, who explained that the last edition was the first in which the paper has been removed support " all the work has been carried out by electronic means, "he said.
Reported that it has received a total of 498 poems, of which have entered the contest 471 who qualified.
The origin has been very different: all Spanish regions, almost all countries in Latin America, United States ... as well as many other countries in Europe and Asia.
Manuel Gómez Angel Espada, for his work "cards in a drawer cookie" has won, getting the 1,500 euro prize and publication of his work by the Publications Service of the University of Murcia.
During the ceremony, the winner has highlighted the efforts of the University of Murcia to maintain the culture, ensuring that, for him, "Poetry is a way of understanding life."
Francisco Javier Díez de Revenga, president of a jury professor at the University of Murcia Francisco Vicente Gómez, and José María Álvarez poets and Eloy Sanchez Rosillo, acting as secretary Isabelle Garcia Molina, stated at once that the winning entry is "a direct and sincere poems written with wisdom, intelligence and verbal expressive representations of everyday world," containing "wit and ironic view of the world around a poet who is entering maturity" and having a "lively optimism that infuses tackles each of the texts, "devoting to the winning words like" cohesive "," well-structured and enveloping "and calling its author a" as intelligent as singular poet. "
Meanwhile, the Mercedes Farias rector defended poetry by the way it has to affect "every single pore of human beings", and officially announced the convening of the next issue: "Convene in this award the following editing means that the competition is still alive, "he said, and clarified that the deadline for writers who want to participate in the XIV edition will be open from 2 April to 30 July.
Meanwhile, Pascual Ortiz Martínez, Cajamurcia, was pleased to collaborate once again with this event, agreeing to participate in your entity "many more issues."
Martínez Ortiz defended poetry as close to what we live and dream expression and referred to the ability of the poems to our inner life.
Finally, the poet Denise Garcia compared the delivery of a literary prize with a celebration, because "it is a miracle celebrate the word excited."
Hinted that this award is an opportunity to discover new "voices", young or not, quoting Nietzsche to ensure that "society needs
Source: UMU
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