Fernando del Paso today received the Cervantes Prize, the highest award in Spanish letters an event celebrating several local authors who have lived and worked with him. For three years before Fernando del Paso suffered a stroke that came to mark the pace of work that the author developed until then Gabriel Martin, writer and current coordinator of cultural activities of the Alliance Francaise de Guadalajara, he worked with the master collating quotations for Under the shadow of history series. Essays on Islam and Judaism . Martin says, with all the reverence that you can have a pupil to his master, who “Fernando del Paso is an artist who allows human being. I always wondered this intelligence puzzle, which is everywhere but knows how it will to build these ideas and give them order. I find it very endearing the way how exulted in your garden to await the arrival of the hummingbirds, at that time we had rest. in each work session was leaving his house with fifty or thirty collating books and dozens of teachings of the trade “. Martin shares once Del Paso narrated the time when newcomer to Paris in a subway station forgot the manuscript of News Empire and the almost miraculous way of how he recovered “on the site things found in another station. “
the poet Jorge Esquinca stresses that it has been” fortunate to meet and try to Fernando del Paso practically since he came to live in Guadalajara so many years ago. As he as it is, a generous person, he has allowed me to participate in their privacy at different times when I could visit him at home or invite him to eat in the company of writer Mario Heredia and I can say we’ve been through moments of great friendship, great happiness , enjoying his conversation, understanding and wisdom. “
Esquinca emphasizes that loves his novels” in particular News Empire although there are passages of José Trigo still they seem to me that a great power of experimentation and Palinuro of Mexico the moments full of humor. It is difficult to speak in a few lines of a work so vast and important not only for Mexican literature, but in the orb of the letters that are written in Spanish language. His legacy should be proud of all Mexicans, I feel deserved the award for today. “
A Francoise Roy, a poet who translated some monologues Carlota News Empire and which represented the year when Québec was the guest of honor at the Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL) does not seem “a political prize as sometimes happens with these awards. In this case the jury’s decision was itself based on the literary quality of the work. I am happy for him. I worked with him as a translator of some of his texts into French, especially, and that has been my relationship through the translation became a very nice friendship and affection for the teacher. That monologue is a work that has been assembled in Mexico, Canada, France and Belgium with a review flattering “.
On the other hand Jorge Souza, writer and collaborator MILLENNIUM JALISCO coincides with Roy that is a well deserved award. Fernando del Paso is today the most important narrator of Mexico and language. throughout his life he has been true to himself, has taken a critical view of the serious mistakes of the government. I admire your taste which is the kitchen, his enormous capacity for work and creativity.
Dante Medina said that “the award was given late, but it’s good to arrive even later. Step two levels has been my friend, as a writer and as a person, very close. Obviously I’ve learned a lot of literature. It has been close to my literary readings and opinions and I have the highest esteem as a writer of the highest quality, as cultured man and a human being of the highest level.
It’s a lucky match in life with the. He emphasizes that is one of living in Latin American literature, by the accumulation of elements and its great baroque writing. His three novels are great monuments to Latin American baroque to how exposed as Alejo Carpentier. It is definitely an indispensable author “
Key
Novel .
– José Trigo (1966 )
– Palinuro of Mexico (1977)
– Empire News (1987)
– Linda 67. History a crime (1995)
Poetry
– Sonnets from the daily (1958)
> – a to Z (1988)
– Palette ten colors (1990)
– love Sonnets and the daily (1997)
– Castles in the air (2002)
– POEMAR (2004)
Theatre
– Miramar crazy (1988)
– Palinuro on the stairs (1992)
> – death is going to Granada (1998)
count
– Tales scattered (1999)
Test
– The colloquium winter , with Carlos Fuentes and Gabriel García Márquez (1992)
– Memory and oblivion of Juan José Arreola Life (1920-1947) (1994).
– Travel around El Quijote (2004)
– Under the shadow of history. Essays on Islam and Judaism vol. . I (2011)
Other
– Douceur et passion of cuisine mexicaine (1991)
– Thirteen Mixed Techniques (1996)
– face faces 2000 to 2000 (2000)
– Castles in the air. Fragments and anticipations. Tribute to Maurits Cornelis Escher (2002)
Awards won
– Xavier Villaurrutia, 1966 José Trigo.
– Mexico Novel 1975.
– Romulo Gallegos, 1982 Palinuro of Mexico.
– Mazatlan Literature, 1988 News of the Empire.
– National Science and Arts of Mexico, 1991.
– Member of the National College, 1996.
– Member of the Mexican Academy of Language, 2006.
– FIL de Literatura, 2007.
– Doctor honoris Causa by the University of Guadalajara, 2013.
– International Alfonso Reyes, 2014
– Cervantes Prize, 2015
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