The Chilean writer Luis Sepulveda said Friday it received with “a very special emotion”, the Eduardo Lourenço Prize in 2016, which was presented at a meeting held in the Municipal Library of the Guard.
Luis Sepúlveda is the winner of the 12th edition of the Eduardo Lourenço Prize, worth 7,500 euros, awarded by the Iberian Studies Center (CEI), based on the highest city in the country.
established in 2004, prize is intended to reward persons or institutions with relevant intervention under cooperation and Iberian culture.
at the solemn session, the honoree said upon receiving the award, feels “a very special emotion,” to have the name of Eduardo Lourenço.
“This award is for me a very special and very emotional meaning. It is a prize of an emotion too special and I can only say thank you “ , said the writer.
Speaking to reporters, he said he was” very pleased “by considering a” great honor to receive an award with the name of Eduardo Lourenço, one of the thinkers and intellectuals “who admires.
the essayist Eduardo Lourenço, in turn, said Luis Sepúlveda is a writer for” worldwide reputation ” .
“The chosen writer is a great writer of worldwide reputation. Therefore, it is very grateful indeed that the commission [jury award] has been chosen to him, among others [contemplated in previous years], to receive this award. “
Eduardo Lourenço said that Luis Sepúlveda is “an author of world-class.” “what can I say more?”, he concluded.
“I was moved by this very idea that, in a year when I went to Hamburg, who offered him my little book had just come out recently. This story to me is totally unprecedented and almost incomprehensible, it seems a story of ‘Carochinha’, but it is a very beautiful story. “
The essayist referia- if the episode told by Luis Sepúlveda that when he was in exile in Hamburg, a friend offered him the book “Heterodoxia” of his own, published in 1949, which had been written “by a teacher of Portuguese,” which had passed that university.
Luis Sepúlveda, who now lives in Gijon, Spain, is the author of books like “the Old Man who read Love Stories” and “History of a seagull and the cat who taught her to fly” among others.
During the ceremony the award, held in Room Time and Poetry Municipal Library Eduardo Lourenço, the mayor of the Guard, Alvaro Amaro said the awarded is “a citizen the world. “
the mayor announced that in 2017, in addition to this award, the ERC will assign another called prize CEI research, innovation and Territory, which will aim to” distinguish intelligent research, innovation . and entrepreneurship “
the prize, with a total of 5,000 euros, will award two modes – a research and other innovation and territory -., each with a budget of 2,500 euros
the journalist Fernando Paulouro Neves, who proposed the name of Luis Sepúlveda to Eduardo Lourenço Prize, said at the meeting that the work of the writer fits “as few” the patron of the award.
the Prize Eduardo Lawrence, assigned by the CIS, had its first edition in 2004 and has distinguished different personalities of relief of Portugal and Spain.
previous editions contemplated Maria Helena da Rocha Pereira (Cathedratic professor of Greco-Latin Culture Agustín Remesal (journalist), Maria João Pires (piano), Angel Campos Pampano (poet), Jorge Figueiredo Dias (teacher Professor of Criminal Law), the writers César Antonio Molina, Mia Couto and Agustina Bessa-Luís José María Martín Patino (theologian), Jerónimo Pizarro (teacher and researcher) and Antonio Sáez Delgado (teacher and researcher).
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