According to the Cuban station Radio Encyclopedia, the writers Atilio Caballero, Daneris Fernández and Leonel Daimel García were winners of the 2022 Matanzas City Foundation Award in the Dramaturgy, Short Story and Literature for Children and Youth genres, respectively.
At the Sauto Theater, Caballero commented that his work All that is solid fades into Parisawarded by Ediciones Matanzas, will premiere on Saturday in the province of Cienfuegos by the Teatro de La Fortaleza group.
Daneris Fernández, writer and researcher, declared to the press that Blame it on Michael jackson It consists of fifteen stories, all featuring policemen. It is not, he said, a cult of violence, it is about presenting the reality of the new Cuban rurality.
Among 34 works that competed in the category of Literature for Children and Young People, the jury highlighted Wings for Patricia by Leonel Daimel García, a set of stories that is characterized, they said, by its coherence and thematic unity.
On the other hand, the writer Marilyn Bobes received the Matanzas City Foundation Honorary Award, which exalts the ties between her work and the Athens of Cuba.
Annually, Ediciones Matanzas, the Jacinto Milanés Literary Promotion Center and the Provincial Center for Books and Literature in Matanzas, under the auspices of the Directorate of Culture and local authorities, convene the City Foundation Award that stimulates literary creation in Cuba.
