The Casa de las Américas Literary Award program begins today at its headquarters in Havana with the constitution of the jury and the opening speech by Venezuelan poet Gustavo Pereira.
The 63rd edition of the event, with 480 works in competition, will continue until April 28, when the 64th anniversary of the Cuban cultural institution is celebrated.
Talks with the writers Telma Luzzani (Argentina), Cristian Valencia (Colombia) and Ricardo Riverón (Cuba) are scheduled for April 25 in the Manuel Galich room, at 3:00 p.m. local time.
The volume En Prensa (1955-1976), by Haroldo Conti, and the collection of poems La excepcional belleza del verano, by Luis Lorente (Cuba), winner of the Casa de las Américas Literary Prize in 2022, will also be presented. This Tuesday at 5:30 p.m., the José Lezama Lima Poetry Prize will also be awarded to the work Diario de las Revelaciones, by Venezuelan poet Gustavo Pereira, who will read his texts.
Essayist Jorge Fornet, director of the Casa de las Américas Research Center and Casa de las Américas magazine, told the press that for this edition of the Prize, the oldest in Latin America, 353 short story texts and 96 testimony texts are competing.
The activities will continue until Friday with presentations, talks, exchanges with writers, the premiere of the piece Allí donde la luz, by Cuban musician José María Vitier, in a tribute concert to the centenaries of the founder of Casa de las Américas Haydée Santamaría and the intellectual Fina García Marruz.
On April 28, the 64th anniversary of the foundation of Casa de las Américas will be celebrated and the awards ceremony will take place in the four genres invited: Short Story, Testimonial Literature, Studies on the Black Presence in Contemporary America and the Caribbean, Brazilian Literature, and fiction.
