Honoring the memory and track record of the Chitrean writer Pedro Correa Vásquez, the Ministry of Culture (MiCultura) gave at a significant ceremony at the Anita Villalaz Theater, the National Prize for Literature Criticism, to Pedro Crens Castro, who was elected by the chronic critique "Fragments to read a literature."
Family and friends of the late poet Correa Vásquez accompanied Edilberto González Trejos, who was appointed by Crenes Castro currently in Spain, to withdraw his scroll that distinguished him as his first winner of this contest, launched this year 2023.
Raquel Correa de Changmarín, sister of Pedro Correa, noted that "this prize has a great meaning for the whole family, because his memory is honor, his work as a literary, highlighting his sensibility in his writings."
"It's important to note the management of the Ministry of Culture for regaining this initiative that has been under care for about 20 years. We are very excited about the relaunch of this contest and we strongly wish that it will continue to be awarded every year," Correa de Changmarín said.
Meanwhile, in the voice of Edilberto González, Pedro Crens stated that "reading is an educational event that gives us criterion, so I declare myself above all reader. Thanks to the Ministry of Culture for calling an award as this and also to the Jury that has considered my work to give him confidence and prestige of his criterion to get an award as this. I wish to mention my friends that always improve me and let them get better for me and for my criterion" I'm not critical, I'm reader, I'm writer. "
That's the first version of this contest, with Justices Danae Brugiati, Rodolfo De Gracia and Eratito Espino, who, by unanimous decision, have been found to have failed to favor the work of Crenes Castro on 1 September.
Pedro Crenes Castro
He's a columnist at the Panamanian daily La Prensa and the Otromontias magazine published in Berlin. He's been awarded the Ricardo Miró National Literature Award twice with his works "How To Be Charles Atlas," 2017 and "Chronicles of the Solar," 2019 as a novel.
Other his works "The catechist boxer" and the microaccounts of "Migudo." His stories have been translated into French and Italian and are part of several national and international antitechnologies. He's an antologist from the Spanish section of "Levadizo Bridge. Twenty-four talkers from Panama and Spain" published with Enrique Jaramillo Levi.