Rafael Rojas reward democracies by testing on Hispanic

Sunday 29 November, 09:22 PM GUADALAJARA, Mexico (AP) - Without the Latin American literary tradition that had its peak with authors like Carlos Fuentes and Gabriel García Márquez, among others, Cuban essayist Rafael Rojas did not have the vocation to write the text which won the Prix de Ensayo Isabel Polanco, said the author. Rojas received the award, unanimously agreed and provided $ 100,000 for his text "air Republics: utopias and disappointment in the Revolution of Latin America" at an official ceremony in the framework of the International Book Fair of Guadalajara. "Without these poets, without these narrators, I think it could be even historians," he said in a brief message of thanks. The book has already been published and is Available in bookstores, it was reported. And the thoroughness of historical research is one of the successes of his essay, as jurors agreed chaired by Fuentes, whose permanent secretary is also Mexican Gonzalo Celorio. The work deepens the aspirations and events that gave way to independence and the birth of most Latin American countries 200 years ago, and how many of those dreams were left in the realm of the abstract. Liliana Weinberg, who was part of the jury that chose winner, noted that the work combines good prose and documents his theories with large fonts. "The author rethinks categories and concepts central to the understanding of our history, such as Utopia and republic, and in doing so it opens new possibilities of interpretation," said Weinberg in the activity. "This paper then introduces new perspectives, calls into dialogue texts, fonts and revisits the republican thought in Latin America since the presence of so many issues these days as exile and translation," he added. The genre specialist said that the jury was struck by how Rojas was "all the vitality, the whole bright and tragic sense can have a debate of ideas." According to Weinberg, was able to translate the text with prose "high-flown aesthetic and ethical questions will" and policies, but also a "great passion." Rojas is the author of several books, including "Mexican Cuba. History of an annexation impossible" (2001) and "Writing for independence. The emergence of public opinion in Mexico "(2003). He has won the prize Anagram Test 2006, the award Matias Romero in 1999 and the Plural Magazine Award in 1994. The name of the award reflects a desire of the Santillana Foundation and the Spanish group Prisa to pay tribute to the work as editor of the Spanish Isabel Polanco, who favored the approach of the literature between the "two sides of the Atlantic," said his brother Ignacio Polanco. Next year the subject of the notice of award will be the Spanish language, and jury president will be former Chilean President Ricardo Lagos. Average (Not Rated)