“For his imaginative and overflowing prose that combines fantastic and realistic elements, specular fictions that investigate the construction of identity from a liminal and peripheral space in the European landscape”, the most important writer of current Romanian literature, Mircea Cărtărescu (Bucharest, 1956), will receive the highest award granted by the Guadalajara International Book Fair: the FIL Prize for Literature in Romance Languages 2022. This recognition will be delivered during the opening of the 36th edition of the Fair, next Saturday, November 26 at 11 a.m., in the Juan Rulfo Auditorium of Expo Guadalajara .
The decision of the Jury, which this year was made up of Lorena Amaro Castro, from Chile; Marco Belpoliti, from Italy; Javier Guerrero, from Venezuela; Maria Eunice Moreira, from Brazil; Oana Sabo, from Romania; Antonio Sáez Delgado, from Spain, and Laura Scarabelli, from Italy, highlighted in the minutes that the Romanian poet, essayist and narrator “is a multifaceted writer with a maximalist style who is fully inserted in the tradition of world literaturequestioning his readers around the world from the oneiric and existential”.
The author of essential works of contemporary literature such as “Nostalgia” and “Solenide” attended the FIL Guadalajara for the first time in 2017, when he was part of the program European Letters Festival and shared in a talk his creative experiences, as well as a sample of the richness of the literature of his region. In addition, the creator of El Levante was in charge of opening the sessions of one of the most beloved spaces of the Fair, the Poetry Hall, where he did not miss the opportunity to captivate the public with his work. In 2018, he returned to Guadalajara to celebrate his recognition as the winner of the Premio Formentor de la Letras.
Mircea Cărtărescu is a poet, narrator, essayist and literary critic. He is considered by critics to be the most important Romanian writer today and a possible winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, has published more than thirty books and has been translated into 23 languages. Among his works, “Nostalgia”, “Blinding” and “Travesti” also stand out. In his country he has received the most prestigious literary awards, such as the one from the Union of Romanian Writers in 1980, 1990 and 1994, or the one from the Romanian Academy. In the international arena he has been awarded the Austrian Prize for European Literature; the Leteo Prize, for all his work, in León; the Thomas Mann Prize for Literature and the Formentor Prize for Letters.
Endowed with 150 thousand US dollars, the FIL Prize for Literature in Romance Languages It is the highest award of the Guadalajara International Book Fair and recognizes a life dedicated to literary creation. This year 80 nominations were received, in which 67 authors from 18 countries and three continents were nominated: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Chile, Spain, France, Guatemala, Honduras, Italy, Lebanon, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Puerto Rico, Romania, Uruguay and Venezuela. The applications were made by cultural and educational institutions, literary associations, publishers and the members of the Jury.
List of recipients
The FIL Prize for Literature in Romance Languages has been received by Nicanor Parra (1991), Juan Jose Arreola (1992), Eliseo Diego (1993), Julio Ramon Ribeyro (1994), Nelida Piñon (1995), Augusto Monterroso (1996), John Marse (1997), Olga Orozco (1998), Sergio Pitol (1999), John Gelman (2000), John Garcia Ponce (2001), Cintio Vitier (2002), Rubem Fonseca (2003), John Goytisolo (2004), Thomas Segovia (2005), Carlos Monsivais (2006), Fernando del Paso (2007), Antonio Lobo Antunes (2008), Rafael Chains (2009), Margo Glantz (2010), Fernando Vallejo (2011), Alfredo Bryce Echenique (2012), Yves Bonnefoy (2013), Claudio Magris (2014), Enrique Vila-Matas (2015), Norman Manea (2016), Emmanuel Carrere (2017), Ida Vitale (2018), David Huerta (2019), Lydia Jorge (2020) and Plants Eltit (2021).
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