The 2024 Alejo Carpentier Literary Prizes for essays, short stories, and novels, as well as the Nicol\u00e1s Guill\u00e9n Poetry Prize, were announced on Monday by a distinguished panel of judges, as reported by Letras Cubanas publishing house and the Cuban Book Institute (ICL).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the essay category, the award went to El cuerpo audiovisual<\/strong> by writer Juan Antonio Garc\u00eda Borrero; for the novel category, Cielo raso<\/strong> by L\u00e1zaro Zamora Jo received recognition; in the short story category, Reo de cuaresma <\/strong>by Rafael de \u00c1guila Borges was honored, with a special mention for Las dos mitades del escriba<\/strong> by Miguel Terry Valdespino.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Nicol\u00e1s Guill\u00e9n Poetry Prize was bestowed upon Cartas de la plaga<\/strong> by writer Roberto Jos\u00e9 M\u00e9ndez Mart\u00ednez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sponsored by the ICL, Letras Cubanas, and the Alejo Carpentier and Nicol\u00e1s Guill\u00e9n Foundations, these prizes aim to foster the creation and promotion of literary works in the genres of novel, short story, essay, and poetry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Translated by Luis E. Amador Dominguez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sponsored by the ICL, Letras Cubanas, and the Alejo Carpentier and Nicol\u00e1s Guill\u00e9n Foundations, these prizes aim to foster the creation and promotion of literary works in the genres of novel, short story, essay, and poetry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2098,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[18,50,578,35],"ppma_author":[178],"class_list":["post-2097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-cuba","tag-cuba","tag-havana","tag-literary-prizes","tag-luis-e-amador-dominguez"],"authors":[{"term_id":178,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"alicia-soto-smith","display_name":"Alicia Soto Smith","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2097"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2101,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097\/revisions\/2101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2097"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=2097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}