The 12th edition of the Félix B. Caignet contest, which reveres the writer considered the initiator of soap operas, is underway today from here after the call of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba.
The provincial affiliate of that organization reported that the event will take place from April 28 to 30 and will celebrate the centenary of Radio Cubana and the 40th anniversary of the radio station Radio Majaguabo, in the municipality of San Luis, homeland of the author of El Derecho to be born
Likewise, the sessions will recognize the Santiago filmmakers Rafael R. Torres, from the provincial radio station CMKC; Ricardo Miranda, from Radio Grito de Baire, in Contramaestre, and Manuel Bell, from the Tele Turquino telecentre.
With the participation of filmmakers from various provinces of the country, the event is heading towards the enhancement of local identity through the mass media and in particular from national television and radio broadcasts.
In one of its days, the contest evoked the centenary of the Santiago writer José Soler Puig, first Casa de Las Américas Award for novels, who also successfully ventured into radio, mainly on the local station.
The award will contribute to a greater knowledge of the life and work of the Cuban creator, considered by the Reynaldo González National Prize for Literature as “the most humane of authors”, in the book he dedicated to him under that title.
Born in 1892, Caignet inaugurated with his radio soap opera The right to be born a new era in those dramatized spaces, which went to the small screen and filled the homes of the most diverse latitudes with full validity until today.
