Literature

Panama, 11 August 2025. - The International Book Fair 2025 was opened and with this the Ministry of Culture opened its stand and is ready to welcome visitors with artistic and literary experiences from today, Monday 11 to Sunday 17 August at the Atlapa Convention Center. [...]

Panama, August 9, 2025. - A literary symposium with international writers was the stage for the Minister of Culture, María Eugenia Herrera, to give the "Butterfly of Peace" medal to Costa Rican writer Ingrid Ávalos Barquero, to the ambassador of Costa Rica to Panama, Bernardina Varga García. Minister Herrera commented that today

For the first time, the province of Chiriquí will be at the stage of the 5th Literature Meeting, a cultural celebration organized by the Ministry of Culture that will bring together more than 55 national writers, including winners of the Ricardo Miró National Literature Competition, for a week that will offer free and open activities to all public.

Since its creation in 2017, more than 900 participants have been registered. At the headquarters of the Ministry of Culture (MiCultura), an event was held to give certificates to new literates from the Writer Training Program "PROFE," in the genres of poetry, theater, essay, novel, creative writing and film script. "We are proud because

On October 14, the Ministry of Culture (MiCultura) held an opening and an official presentation of the Jury of the Ricardo Miró 2024 National Literature Competition. The event was attended by the public notary of the Third Tenth Notary, Hector Miguel Santos Rodas, who attested to the transparency of the

The Ministry of Culture announced on 30 August to the winners of the 2024 Pollito Middle Competition. The qualifying Jury, composed of Annabel Miguelena, Desirée Del Rosario and Leadimiro González, selected the winners among the 307 jobs received, highlighting those that met the bases of the contest. The first place was awarded to the tale.

The International Book Fair was an ideal stage for presenting and delivering the first printed edition of the works leading to the 2023 Literary Conforms, organized by the National Section of the Arts of the Ministry of Culture. During the literary Gala of the Ricardo Miró Contest, Martin Jamieson presented the essay book

The Ministry of Culture (MiCultura), through the National Direction of The Arts, published yesterday afternoon, August 12, the Nobel National Prize for Narrative Ariel Barria Alvarado 2024: "La Noche, Tal Vez," by Eduardo Amílcar Jaspe Lescure. The writers Gonzalo Menendez González, Melitón Robles Esquina

On August 9, 2024, the Ministry of Culture announced that Victoria Rodriguez Joseph was the winner of the Nobel Peer's Contest Gustavo Batista Cedeño 2024 with his work with an illusion to provoke dreams, signed under the pseudonym "Zara Cundé." The Jury, composed of Kafka Vergara, María Happiness Dominguez, was among 25 participating works.