CUBA (AFP) – The Princess of Asturias Prize for Letters rewarded Wednesday “dialogue and freedom” of the work of Cuban writer Leonardo Padura, who uses fiction to dissect the Cuban reality.
“From fiction, Padura shows the challenges and the limits of the search for truth,” said the foreman, Dario Villanueva, reading the minutes of awarding the prize, who chose 27 candidates from 18 countries.
Padura, 59, has achieved international success with his series of detective novels featuring the detective Mario Conde, which have served to “interpret and reflect the Cuban reality”, as he himself has declared.
“I learned from Hammett, Chandler, Vazquez Montalban and Sciascia that it is possible a detective novel that has a real connection with the country’s environment, reporting or touch concrete and not just imaginary realities,” said the author, said in a statement Princess of Asturias Foundation, which awards the prizes.
His disbelieving inspector Cuban police have even a small screen version, in which script has worked Padura.
“It’s rooted in tradition and decidedly contemporary author, a seeker of the cultured and the popular, an independent intellectual, ethical firm temperament,” said the jury in their arguments.
In the work of award-winning “highlights a resource that will characterize his literary: the interest in listening to people’s voices and stories of other lost,” said the jury, read by the director Royal Spanish Academy of Language.
“His work is a superb adventure of dialogue and freedom,” said the jury award the grant matches the rapprochement between Havana and Washington, something that had always advocated the author.
Padura, who began his career as a journalist in the early 1980s in the literary magazine The bearded alligator and in the newspaper Juventud Rebelde , has touched countless genres: from the novel to the story through interviews, screenplays and essays.
Nationalized Spanish, one of his last big success was his novel “ The Man Who Loved Dogs “, which reconstructs the life of Ramon Mercader, the murderer of Leon Trotsky whose rights have been acquired by the cinema.
In March, presented in Spain his latest work, “ That I was looking forward happen “, an anthology of stories with everyday people in Havana universe of the author.
The winner of many awards including the National Book Award and the National Award for Literary Criticism Cubans, the International Association of crime writers, or the Historical Novel City of Zaragoza for his work “Heretics” Padura also has the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France.
The Princess of Asturias Prize for Literature, which last year went to the Irish novelist John Banville, is the sixth of eight each year since 1981 awarded the Prince of Asturias Foundation, now renamed Foundation Princess of Asturias in honor of the small Leonor de Borbón, 9, new heir to the throne of Spain after the proclamation of his father, Philip VI, as the new monarch in June 2014.
Equipped with 50,000 euros (about $ 56,000) and a sculpture created by Joan Miró, the Princess of Asturias awards honor people or relevant institutions in the fields of arts, social sciences, communication and humanities, scientific research, sports, letters, international cooperation and harmony.
The award will be presented in autumn in a ceremony at the Campoamor Theatre in Oviedo (Asturias, north) to be attended by the kings of Spain.
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