“I learned from Hammett, Chandler, Vazquez Montalban and Sciascia that it is possible a detective story that has real relationship, denounce and not only imaginary.” Leonardo Padura, author.
Leonardo Padura, writer.
Madrid, Spain. 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 act 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, who have served to “interpret and reflect the Cuban reality”, as he himself said.
“I learned from Hammett, Chandler, Vazquez Montalban and Sciascia that it is possible a detective story that has real relationship with the environment country reporting or touch concrete realities and not just imaginary, “said the author, quoted by Princess of Asturias Foundation, which awards the prizes.
His disbelieving inspector Cuban police have even a version the small screen, in which script has worked Padura.
“I really feel very gratified with an award like this, which is one of the most important literature that occur in the world,” said writer AFP.
“It’s the result of the work of many years, the work of life, and being the first Cuban writer to get it is something that pleases me very much,” he said.
“It’s an author rooted in its tradition and resolutely contemporary; an inquirer of the cultured and the popular; an independent intellectual, ethical firm temperament, “continued the jury in its verdict
In the work of winning.” highlights a resource that will characterize his literary: the interest in listening to people’s voices and stories lost the other, “said the jury.
Dialogue and freedom
” His work is a superb adventure of dialogue and freedom, “said the jury award the grant match rapprochement between Havana and Washington, something that had always advocated the author.
Padura, who began his career as a journalist in the early 80s in the literary magazine The bearded alligator and the Juventud Rebelde newspaper has touched countless genres. from the novel 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.
The prize, worth 50,000 euros and a sculpture created by Joan Miró, will be delivered in autumn at the Campoamor Theatre in Oviedo.
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