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Minister of Culture praises achievements of Cuban Book Institute
Minister of Culture praises achievements of Cuban Book Institute
Havana, Apr 27 (Prensa Latina) Minister of Culture Alpidio Alonso recalled the 54th anniversary of the Cuban Book Institute, the governing body of literary production in Cuba. Alonso wrote on Twitter echoing the hashtag #LeerEsCrecer ( reading is growing ) and forwarded the congratulations to the founders, writers, editors and other workers of the book system in the country.
The celebration of the institute s anniversary contemplates a wide range of activities on Tuesday, including the presentation of a book on Universal History, by Eduardo Torres Cuevas, and a concert by Ireno Garcia with musicalized poems written by Eliseo Diego.
Rogelio Rodríguez’s
El rastro chino en la literatura cubana [Chinese Traces in Cuban Literature] has won Cuba’s 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award. His essay examines the presence of Chinese culture in Cuban literature.
The emblematic
Paradiso, by José Lezama Lima, or
Mi tío, el empleado, by Ramón Meza, are two of the works that Rogelio Rodríguez examined in his original essay
El rastro chino en la literatura cubana, a recent winner of the National Prize of the Círculo de Book Critics 2020.
The common thread of the work is the tradition that has managed to take root, through generations of Chinese descendants, in the cultural heart of the island, to sustain a fluid dialogue between two peoples so geographically distant.
2021-01-07 05:05:42 GMT2021-01-07 13:05:42(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
by Yosley Carrero
HAVANA, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) Rogelio Rodriguez, 74, has won Cuba s 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award for a book that examines Chinese influence on Cuban literature.
Published under the title The Chinese Trace in the Cuban Literature, Rodriguez s award-winning work provides readers with an in-depth analysis on how novels portray China s intangible cultural heritage like My Uncle, the Employee by Ramon Meza, and Paradiso by Jose Lezama Lima.
The author, also president of the Cuban Academy of the Spanish Language and senior professor at the University of Havana, said Chinese descendants have substantially contributed to enhancing historical links that unite the two countries.