{"id":135640,"date":"2020-01-28T12:54:58","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T12:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ny1.dr1.com.do\/wordpress\/?p=135640"},"modified":"2020-02-26T12:22:08","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T12:22:08","slug":"2020-national-literature-prize-goes-to-writer-leon-david","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/01\/28\/2020-national-literature-prize-goes-to-writer-leon-david\/","title":{"rendered":"2020 National Literature Prize goes to writer Le\u00f3n David"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"680\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Leon-David-Acento-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-136692\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For all the merits of his prolific career as a poet, playwright, essayist and critic, with more than thirty published works, the writer Le\u00f3n David was declared the winner of the 2020 National Literature Prize. The 10-member jury of the Corripio Foundation and the Ministry of Culture voted unanimously for Le\u00f3n David.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Le\u00f3n David is the pen name for Juan Jos\u00e9 Jimenes Sabater, who has had a fruitful career of 30 years. He will receive the award in a ceremony on 25 February. The award includes RD$2 million in cash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/2020\/01\/25\/601431\/escritor-leon-david-gana-premio-nacional-de-literatura-2020\">Listin Diario<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/hoy.com.do\/honores-para-leon-david\/\">Hoy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>28 January 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For all the merits of his prolific career as a poet, playwright, essayist and critic, with more than thirty published works, the writer Le\u00f3n David was declared the winner of the 2020 National Literature Prize. The 10-member jury of the Corripio Foundation and the Ministry of Culture voted unanimously for Le\u00f3n David. Le\u00f3n David is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/01\/28\/2020-national-literature-prize-goes-to-writer-leon-david\/\" 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":[271,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135640"}],"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=135640"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136693,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135640\/revisions\/136693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}