The Ministry of Education and the Dominican Journalist Guild (CDP) honored journalist Emilia Pereyra with the RD$1 million cash award. She will receive the award and cash prize at a ceremony at the Presidential Palace.
The jurors were: Education Minister Antonio Peña Mirabal; Adriano de la Cruz, president of the CDP; Margarita Cordero, National Journalism Award Winner 2015; Rosa Olga Medrano, director of the Dominican Association of Broadcasters (Asociación Dominicana de Radiodifusoras – ADORA), the country’s most important radio station association; Rafael Osvaldo Santana for the Dominican Newspaper Society (Sociedad Dominicana de Diarios); Félix Almonte, director of the Social Communications Department of the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD); and Elvira Lora, research professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra.
Pereyra has a long career as reporter, editor, researcher and media officer. She has worked at La Noticia, El Nuevo Diario, El Caribe, El Siglo, Ultima Hora and recently at Diario Libre, where she publishes on history and Dominican culture matters. She has also worked for Cadena de Noticias, CDN and Grupo SIN.
She is an author of the novels “El grito del tambor”, on the pirate Francis Drake invasion (Alfaguara, 2012), “El crimen verde” (Mograf 1994), “Cenizas del querer” (Laguna Negra, 1998), “El faldón de la pólvora” (Santillana, 2015), and the short story collection “El inapelable designio de Dios” (Cedibil, 2008), among other works. One of her novels, “Cóctel con frenesí” (Cole, 2003) was translated to Norwegian and published in Norway.
She studied social communication at the UASD and did a masters in multimedia journalism at the Universidad de País Vasco in Spain.
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4 April 2019