Guantanamo.- The awards of the 46th edition of the Regino E. Boti 2024 National Plastic Arts and Literature Contest were presented in Guantanamo Province. It was dedicated, on this occasion, to engraving and poetry, and the awards were announced during the closing ceremony at the Café Cantante América in this city.
Four competing engravers from Santiago de Cuba won prizes for their works among the 45 admitted to the contest that took place at the Antografia gallery, organized by the Provincial Council of Plastic Arts: Carlos René Aguilera (La Patagonia y Burbujas), Julio César Carmenate (El Ojo del Amo series was granted a scholarship creation of the Saiz Brother Association), Jorge Juan Knight Vera (Todavía falta y Crisálida), and Israel Tamayo Zamora (mention to the ensemble).
The National Fine Arts Prize winner Nelson Domínguez Cedeño chaired the jury, also made up of Daniel Núñez Juárez and Yanette Brossuard, who read the minutes at the closing of the day, held from June 5 to 8 in this city.
Anaysi Taupier Hierrezuelo, president of the provincial council of Plastic Arts, highlighted the attendance of dozens of works by artists from various provinces, exhibitions, workshops and conferences, with the participation of guests such as Domínguez Cedeño, Brossuar, Tamayo Zamora, Knight Vera, and the Canadian engraver Alan Fling, among others.
For its part, the collection of poems Mantenerse fiel en el otoño, by Ragnar Wilfredo Robas, was the only winner in Literature category, by unanimous decision of the jury made up of the writers Mireya Piñeiro Ortigosa, Nelson Simón González and Reinaldo Cedeño Pineda, who read the corresponding act.
He presented the accreditation diploma to the author, in the ceremony that also included the participation of Representative Idaliena Díaz Casamayor, president of the Municipal Assembly of People’s Power in the main town, the director of the Provincial Center of Books and Literature, an institution that also sponsors the event together with the provincial directorate of Culture.
The collateral prize of the Hermanos Saíz Association in the country was additionally awarded to the poetry collection Monologuo interior, by Liset González, from Pinar del Río, by a jury made up of Carlos Esquivel, Alejandro Rama and Raúl Leyva Pupo.
Trasnlated by Liubis Balart
