The next literary awards ceremony House of the Americas it was moved from the traditional month of January to April 2003 and will coincide with the anniversary of this institution.
Through your website Windoworganizers reported that the 63rd edition of Casa will be held from April 24 to 28 of next year, according to a wire from the Prensa Latina (PL) agency.
The @CasAmericas informs that the celebration of the 63rd edition of its Literary Award is moved to the days of April 24 to 28, 2023.
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— House of the Americas (@CasAmericas) December 20, 2022
As reported, the date change is linked to the programming of other events in the country during the month of January. The institution regrets “any setback that such a decision may cause.”
The information indicates that the closing of the contest will take place on April 28, coinciding with the 64th anniversary of Casa and with the closing of the tributes for the centenary of its founder, Haydée Santamaría.
The prize Casa de las Américas Literary Prize is awarded annually. Its call includes the categories of poetry, short stories, novels, theater, essays, testimony, literature for children and young people, Caribbean literature (English and French-speaking), Brazilian literature, and indigenous literature.
The Casa de las Américas was created on April 28, 1959 thanks to a law promulgated by the Revolutionary Government. It was conceived as a space for meeting and dialogue in a climate of innovative ideas to encourage exchange with institutions and personalities from around the world.
Haydée Santamaría (1922-1980), sister of the martyr Abel Santamaría, presided over the institution until 1980. Then, and until 1986, it was headed by the painter Mariano Rodríguez (1912-1990). And from that date until the end of his days by the poet and essayist Roberto Fernández Retamar (1930-2019).
Currently the narrator and essayist Abel Prieto is the president of that cultural institution that promotes, investigates, sponsors, rewards and publishes the work of writers, plastic artists, musicians, theater artists and scholars of literature, arts and social sciences from Latin America.
Throughout its history, the prestigious awards have been granted to great figures of the continent’s letters, including Roque Dalton, Ricardo Piglia and Eduardo Galeano.
