Minister of Culture Eduardo Selman is promoting the Jose Gabriel Garcia 2018 History Award. The annual award will go to the person who publishes a work that tells a previously untold story and is a transcendental contribution to Dominican history telling. The contest was created by Decree 3-17 dated 6 January 2017. The Ministry says the intention is to inspire more historical research projects.
Authors interested in submitting a manuscript for the award may reside in the Dominican Republic or abroad. A RD$500,000 prize has been established, but the jury has the discretion to not declare a winner. The winner will be announced on 7 November 2018. The works need to be submitted with a pseudonym.
The rules for participating are published at the Ministry of Culture website at Ministry of Culture
23 May 2018
