{"id":125829,"date":"2019-05-02T13:15:54","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T13:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.do\/?p=125829"},"modified":"2019-05-11T16:49:17","modified_gmt":"2019-05-11T16:49:17","slug":"guillermo-pina-contreras-wins-book-fair-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/05\/02\/guillermo-pina-contreras-wins-book-fair-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Guillermo Pi\u00f1a Contreras wins book fair award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.do\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Premio-Guillermo-Pi\u00f1a-Hoy.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-126121\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Premio-Guillermo-Pi\u00f1a-Hoy.jpg 444w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Premio-Guillermo-Pi\u00f1a-Hoy-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption>Photo: Hoy<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Ambassador Guillermo Pi\u00f1a Contreras was awarded the Eduardo Le\u00f3n Jimenes 2019 National Book Fair Award for his novel \u201cLa reina de Santom\u00e9\u201d. He is the Dominican ambassador to the Netherlands and is based in The Hague. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The novel had been launched this year at the Madrid Book Fair. It recreates life in the province of San Juan de la Maguana in the mid 1900s during the Trujillo dictatorship. The award comes with a RD$1 million cash award. His daughter Pamela Pi\u00f1a received the award from Culture Minister Eduardo Selman at a ceremony at the National Library on 1 May 2019. The award is sponsored by the Eduardo Le\u00f3n Jimenes Foundation and the Cervecer\u00eda Nacional Dominicana, the Presidente beer brewery. <br>\nThe voting jurors this year were Juan Daniel Balc\u00e1cer, Ylonka Nacidit Perdomo and Alejandro Arvelo. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born in Santo Domingo in 1952, Pi\u00f1a Contreras is a recognized writer and diplomat. He has been Dominican ambassador in Argentina, France, and Morocco. He is a member of the Dominican Language Academy. He was appointed ambassador to the Netherlands in 2014. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"http:\/\/hoy.com.do\/guillermo-pina-gana-premio-feria-del-libro-2019\/\">Hoy<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/revista\/cultura\/yo-quise-contar-en-la-novela-el-reinado-de-angelita-trujillo-LJ12390391\">Diario&nbsp;Libre<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See more Santo Domingo Book Fair events at: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/programa_general_filsd_2019.pdf\">Santo Domingo Book Fair schedule <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2 May 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ambassador Guillermo Pi\u00f1a Contreras was awarded the Eduardo Le\u00f3n Jimenes 2019 National Book Fair Award for his novel \u201cLa reina de Santom\u00e9\u201d. He is the Dominican ambassador to the Netherlands and is based in The Hague. The novel had been launched this year at the Madrid Book Fair. It recreates life in the province of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/05\/02\/guillermo-pina-contreras-wins-book-fair-award\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[154,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125829"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125829"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126123,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125829\/revisions\/126123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}