{"id":144115,"date":"2020-07-20T06:55:29","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T10:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=144115"},"modified":"2020-07-20T08:48:02","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T12:48:02","slug":"the-ministry-of-culture-announces-the-winners-of-the-national-literary-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/07\/20\/the-ministry-of-culture-announces-the-winners-of-the-national-literary-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ministry of Culture announces the winners of the National Literary Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"413\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Premios-literarios-Secretaria-de-Cultura.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-144161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Premios-literarios-Secretaria-de-Cultura.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Premios-literarios-Secretaria-de-Cultura-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ruth Herrera and Cesar Zapata of the Ministry of Culture announced the winners of the National Literary Awards. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Herrera said even in the midst of the difficulties to daily life caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, a large number of high-quality works were delivered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It has been a worthy and fruitful competition in the middle of a turbulent and troubled year. Literature is rising up with all its promise and despite the crisis,&#8221; said Herrera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The awards ceremony will take place at the Ministry of Culture&#8217;s lobby. Minister Eduardo Selman will hand the winners the diplomas and cash prizes. The winners receive RD$200,000 each.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The winners of the awards are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Salom\u00e9 Ure\u00f1a de Henr\u00edquez Annual Poetry Prize was won by Daniel Beltr\u00e9 L\u00f3pez, for his text entitled \u201cNo es un soplo la vida\u201d (Life is not a Breath). The jurors were the writers and poets: Manuel Llibre Otero, C\u00e9sar S\u00e1nchez Beras and Radham\u00e9s Reyes V\u00e1squez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Annual Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00f3n L\u00f3pez Short Story Award went to Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00edn Paulino, for his book \u201cAntes de que la casa se derrumbe\u201d (Before the House Collapses). The jurors were the writers and professors: Rafael Peralta Romero, Aquiles Juli\u00e1n and Emelda Ramos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Annual Manuel de Jes\u00fas Galv\u00e1n Novel Prize was awarded to Franklin Guti\u00e9rrez for his work \u201cEl rostro sombr\u00edo del sue\u00f1o americano\u201d (The Somber Face of the American Dream). The jurors were the writers and academics: Mar\u00eda Virtudes N\u00fa\u00f1ez Fidalgo, Justiniano Est\u00e9vez Aristy and Efra\u00edm Castillo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Annual Pedro Henr\u00edquez Ure\u00f1a Essay Prize was awarded to Fernando Ferr\u00e1n Bru, for \u201cLos herederos. ADN cultural del dominicano\u201d (The Heirs, Dominican Cultural DNA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"http:\/\/cultura.gob.do\/index.php\/noticias\/item\/1452-ministerio-de-cultura-anuncia-ganadores-de-los-premios-anuales-de-literatura-2020\">Ministry of Culture<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>20 July 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruth Herrera and Cesar Zapata of the Ministry of Culture announced the winners of the National Literary Awards. Herrera said even in the midst of the difficulties to daily life caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, a large number of high-quality works were delivered. &#8220;It has been a worthy and fruitful competition in the middle of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/07\/20\/the-ministry-of-culture-announces-the-winners-of-the-national-literary-awards\/\" 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\/144115"}],"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=144115"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144162,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144115\/revisions\/144162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}