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In April, Fernando del Paso began the celebration of its 80 years of life; He had received a gift advance with the Excellence Award in Literature José Emilio Pacheco. In the year has received many honors, to which is added the most important: the Cervantes Prize, considered the Nobel Prize of Literature of the Spanish language
“It’s one of the most important awards of the Spanish language. in which I write. I was sleeping and Los Cabos I caught my daughter Paulina as learned … It was about six o’clock. I knew I had potential, had been on several shortlists finalists. It is a recognition to be enjoyed “shared the writer in an interview with MILLENNIUM Jalisco.
Del Paso suffered three years a series of strokes, making it difficult speech, which has now recovered, but has trouble walking. Begins to glimpse his return to writing, especially in volume two of the series In the shadow of history .
“I’ve had a good career, which has taken a intense research, because in writing I love the detail. In books like News Empire I had to immerse myself in history, the documentation to see how they dressed, what they ate, what drank, what carriages had, ie, customs of another century, “
Also painter, the writer stressed the importance of writing in his life.” I stop painting for writing, but not . I stop writing for painting I feel the need of the word rather than the color and pattern “
Del Paso feels sad about the national situation.” I see bad the country: there is a lot of crime, violence, kidnapping, femicide, walk not good at all. This country does not seem to go up but down, corruption in general. “
great sage of narrative
Among the congratulations received Fernando del Paso in social networks is that of President Enrique Peña Nieto, who in his Twitter account, defined it as “the great Mexican writer. Author of novels already in the literature. A lifetime dedicated to literature “.
Meanwhile, the president of Conaculta, Rafael Tovar y de Teresa, stressed the trajectory of the narrator:” A life devoted to literature whose novels are already in the world literature “.
For John Villoro, Joseph Wheat , Palinuro of Mexico and Empire News are among the best novels of the language, which should add Memory and oblivion “a very generous work that allows Juan Jose Arreola, a remarkable storyteller, tell his own life.”
To Villoro, medical erudition deployed in Palinuro and the historical scholarship of Empire News are always at the service of the plot and characters: “You need to be very knowledge wise to look natural, and Fernando del Paso is the great sage of our narrative. “
Winner of the 2013 Cervantes, Elena Poniatowska spoke of the importance that many Mexican writers or who have lived in Mexico have received this recognition becomes “a great joy to see that in the literature and art itself excel.
” From the Nobel Octavio Paz, others who have taken the prize are Carlos Fuentes, Sergio Pitol Tito Monterroso, Alvaro Mutis, Jose Emilio Pacheco, Mexican and Mexican adoptive, which means that the letters themselves do. “
Their relationship began after the publication of News Empire , remember Poniatowska, “since he had black hair; It was a delight, very obsessive, and how much he helped his wife, Socorro. She made him many chips, especially when made Empire News , she worked a lot. In addition, they like to eat well: both know a lot about cooking one of the best authors “
To Elmer Mendoza, the world turned to the ways of civilization with the Cervantes Del Paso.” live, owner of a priceless work that deserves to be recognized everywhere.
“I am very pleased that my master is recognized and that its literature enjoyment of all power and all the genius that he was able to develop . in his novels he is a very shrewd author: in his novels, from Joseph Wheat , it shows a writer who was not afraid of anything or be disqualified or to be placed next to someone in particular. Fernando brings a concept of narrative in his head and develops gradually, “said Mendoza, who wrote the foreword for the commemorative edition of Empire News .
Angels Mastretta not only expressed his joy at the recognition of the step, but believes that should give many years, “but it’s never too late. Not only chance gives the awards, also justice. This time, surely, nothing more fair.
“Fernando is an artist, a magician and superb editor texts. Three essential qualities of a great writer. It has been said a thousand times that is Writer for writers. Sure enough, but the same is a writer for those who enjoy reading. That more and more, but otherwise says. “
Ignacio Padilla believes that the granting of Cervantes Fernando del Paso was a pending issue of the Spanish language with a key author, a debt that, in his view, had to be paid off at least two years: “But it’s never too late, or if it was, is the Cervantes the winning with Del Paso.
“It is a fundamental work. It is one of the voices, perhaps the last outcry, the boom Latin America, with all that that means for many generations. There are many secondary authors who have been assigned a chip in the boom, and I do not deserve it; however, I am convinced that Del Paso deserved from the time published Palinuro of Mexico . “
” It’s an extraordinary writer, “says convinced Antonio Ortuño, who adds What news of the empire is the most important in the last three decades Mexican novel. “It’s a luxury for literature in Spanish the work of someone like Fernando del Paso”
Ortuño ensures that one of the peculiarities of Del Paso’s work is the combination of rigor and pleasure for readers, where his contributions and his talent is encrypted: “They are formally daring books, verbal and thematically. Each builds its own order. Del Paso has been one of the most radical of the possibilities of the novel in Spanish literature of recent decades builders. They are complex, dense books, but they also offer many opportunities of enjoyment for the reader. “
Jorge F. Hernandez says Del Paso is an author who we have not given the important place that deserves all his work, but especially by Empire News , which marked a whole generation: “A writer who writes and paints: meticulous, thoughtful, landscape painting, shrewd artist, which is also reflected in his essays.
“He has done a kind of constant homage to the masters of those he watered. He learned a lot of Don Quixote , the Novels copies and cervantinos Entremeses . In the work of from Step are the subjects, all with outstanding grades, he was studying in honor of teachers he reads , read and suggests or always recommend to new readers. “
The award will be presented on April 23 by King Philip VI, in a ceremony held at the University of Alcala de Henares. Endowed with 125,000 euros, the Cervantes prize to Del Paso it the sixth Mexican author who achieved this distinction: they got before Octavio Paz (1981), Carlos Fuentes (1987), Sergio Pitol (2005), Jose Emilio Pacheco (2009 ) and Elena Poniatowska (2013). So, after Spain, Mexico is the country with more writers awarded the Cervantes.
The reasons for the distinction
According to the minutes jury, Fernando del Paso won the Cervantes prize for his “contribution to the development of novel combining tradition and modernity, as in his time did the author of Don Quixote .”
In this edition, which coincides with the 400th anniversary of the birth of Miguel de Cervantes, the jurors voted for most, but for the president of the jury, appointed by the Royal Spanish Academy, Inés Fernández-Ordóñez, the prize valued at a writer “who takes risks and is brave in innovation, as Cervantes 400 years ago.
” His novels full of risks will recreate key episodes in the history of Mexico, making them universal, “he explained in the document .
“His work is part of the history of American literature is unique and innovative, both formal and content character and is very representative for Mexico, where it is one of the most read authors. Do justice to award grants him today, “Fernandez Ordonez. Bogus=”1″
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