With a ceremony held in the Che Guevara Hall of the House of the Americas, in Havana, it opened this Monday The 2025 edition of the Casa de las Américas Literary Award.
The opening ceremony was headed by the renowned Chicana writer Cherríe Moragawho offered a speech with a strong political and social content.
Moraga denounced him Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian peopleand criticized the policies of President Donald Trump, as well as the direction of the Salvadoran government led by Nayib Bukele.
The author also called to face gender violence, migration crisis, threat to original cultures, colonialism, fascism, oligarchies, and all kinds of racial discrimination and sexual identity.
For his part, Jorge Fornet, director of the House Literary Research Center, stressed that this year The contest received around 1,500 works, a reflection of a broad regional call.
Jury of the Casa de las Américas Award
In addition, he presented to the jury of the different categories, composed of writers from Cuba, Mexico, Costa Rica, Argentina and Venezuela.
The institution announced on Tuesday that in the “story” category, The jury is made up of Daniel Quirós (Costa Rica), Socorro Venegas (Mexico) and Sergio Cevedo (Cuba).
The 65th edition of the Casa de las Américas literary award began, with the participation of prominent writers, academics and members of the international jury.
️ The words of the American writer and activist Cherríe Moraga inaugurated the contest. pic.twitter.com/snukc4k8O0– Casa de las Américas (@casamericas) April 21, 2025
Also, as part of the initial day the exhibition “The duty to start over. 65 years of the Literary Award, the Editorial and the Magazine was inaugurated HOUSE OF THE AMERICAS”, Installed in the José Antonio Echeverría Library.
According to Fernando Rojas, director of the Editorial Fund of the Institution, the exhibition proposes a retrospective look through More than 60 editions of the magazine Home Since its first issue in 1960as well as a representative selection of more than 200 titles published by the publisher.
During the first day of the literary contest, on Monday afternoon he paid tribute to the centenary of the outstanding Cuban photographer Raúl Corrales.
For this Wednesday, April 23, the schedule provides for the presentation of The winning books of the Casa de las Américas literary award in its previous edition.
