by the El Reportero’s news services
With Tjher Year of the Pig, a work selected from about 2,000 texts sent from 35 countries in Asia, America and Europe, Ulises Paniagua Olivares won the award.
The jury that formed the Cuban Karla Suárez, the Venezuelan Juan Carlos Méndez Guédez and the Colombian Benhur Sánchez Suárez, writers with important literary work internationally, in addition to the winner selected a group of ten finalists among which include writers from Argentina, Colombia, Uruguay, Chile, Peru, Venezuela and Cuba.
The best writer in Colombia was distinguished by Bogota narrator Jaime Escobar Vásquez and two Nariñenses who obtained regional recognition, puppeteers Robinson Coral Portilla and José Daniel del Castillo.
The event that is organized by the Gabriel García Márquez Foundation, with support from the Ministry of Culture and the Government of Nariño, has a long history and prestige that is consolidated every year at the international level.
The story of the winner, who obtains an economic prize of 6 million pesos, is a text that addresses the obsession of a person, the product of a state of permanent solitude, a metaphor of the urban world where the slavery of a meaningless work leads to delirium, perhaps forgetting important values such as affection and love. It is a fantastic and ambiguous story that undoubtedly manages to move readers.
Prior to the verdict ceremony, which was known on Wednesday, Nov. 5, the organization of the contest was directly linked to the Gabriel García Márquez de Aracataca House Museum, Magdalena, whose director, writer Rafael Darío Jiménez gave talks about life and work of the Nobel Prize for Literature in the municipalities of Pasto, Gualmatán and Pupiales, in Nariño.
Interested writers, participants or not, can check the verdict on the website, which is the official site of the contest. From now on the organization announces a new call for the year 2020.
Revitalization planned for unique stained-glass mural and botanical garden
The Cosmovitral Botanical Garden houses an elaborate mural and 400 species of plants
The second most popular tourist attraction in México state after the ancient city of Teotihuacán is seeking to boost visitor numbers by tapping into a segment of the market that is notoriously tricky to crack: millennials.
The Cosmovitral Botanical Garden in the historic center of Toluca features an elaborate stained-glass mural by deceased México state artist Leopoldo Flores that tells the story of man and his relationship with the universe. It is also home to 400 different species of plants.
More than 360,000 visitors have enjoyed the enclosed garden this year, including foreigners from countries such as Japan, Israel and Spain, but director Alejandra Abraham Jarquín would like to see more young people coming through the doors.
A Latin American rangoli in India
The culture, nature and history of four Latin American countries (Ecuador, El Salvador, Peru and Paraguay) were exhibited in a huge rangoli, a traditional Indian art form, to highlight friendship on either side of the world.
Sponsored by the embassies of those four nations in New Delhi, the Latin American rangoli showed Peru’s cultural and natural wealth, Ecuador’s biodiversity, with its Galapagos Islands and the Cotopaxi Volcano, El Salvador’s greatness, and Paraguay’s mate, Guarani language and young people.
Rangoli, decorative drawings that Indians create on the floor of their living rooms, patios and streets during their traditional celebrations, such as the recent Diwali or Light Festival, before the beginning of winter, and after harvests, is an ancient tradition that has been passed from generation to generation.
Ambassadors Hector Cueva (Ecuador), Fleming Duarte (Paraguay) and Carlos Polo (Peru), and Salvadorian Business Attaché Daniel Gutierrez described the event as a symbol of friendship.
Gerardo Ortiz receives the “Run of the Year” Award
Last night the star of the Mexican Regional Gerardo Ortiz dominated the scene of the twentieth installment of the 2019 Radio Awards.
Gerardo Ortiz was awarded in the song Best Run of the Year with the theme Carrillo Airline.
Also, Ortiz was part of the grand opening ceremony by singing his first song of the evening Go Now as a tribute to Valentín Elizalde and presenting the “Collaboration of the Year” award with Carolina Ross and his brother Kevin Ortiz.
Ending his participation in this delivery Gerardo sang his current success entitled More Expensive Than Yesterday.
