The Cuban poet and writer Gilda Guimeras Pareja (1957) was the winner of the Spanish Tiflos Poetry Prize in its 36th edition convened by the National Organization for the Blind of Spain (ONCE).
with the poems As long as the water rises For the second time, the author obtained the prestigious award endowed with 10,000 euros and the publication of the book.
In 2016 he won Tiflos thanks to the collection of poems Who comes to the platformsalso published in Cuba later by the Ediciones Unicornio label of the province of Artemisa.
The jury distinguished at that moment the freshness and spontaneity with which the author speaks of the referents of the island of Cuba, so closely linked to Spain.
Those children that we were
at the time the photographer interrupted the class
and the scattered victims
by the patio of whatever
school,
fail to offer echocardiography of the
moment
when did my friend arrive
with the Michelin guide of a
school photo
aged and tarnished.
They lack above all
histrionics
of the look in the films
silent,
or a short legend that
State your contrast.
has only bodies
called to swell the
things that are not enough
place in memory,
those that hardly exist in the
image
that graphs your loss
infertile,
perennial loss,
the unappealable way in which
runs.
(Fragment of the poem “Ruins” included in the collection of poems As long as the water rises. Tiflos Poetry Prize, 2023.)
Gilda Guimeras is the author of the story notebooks seasons of eve (Eolo House, Spain, 2012), the night is better (2008) and the book of chronicles Told in a few linesamong others.
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The Tiflos Literature Awards: Poetry, Short Story and Novel promote and distinguish literary creation in the Spanish language and is one of the most prestigious poetry contests on the literary scene with the purpose of promoting work among people with blindness or severe visual impairment.
Within the social and cultural action promoted by ONCE is achieving a greater integration of people with visual disabilities through art, culture and communication.
