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| The award was announced by the Department of Culture and the Popular University of the Cartagena City Council and is endowed with the amount of 7,200? and the publication of the work by the publishing house Pre.Textos | The work Peccata Mundi, by José Antonio Ramírez Lozano, has been the winner of the XXXIV Edition of the Antonio Oliver Belmás International Poetry Prize, the ruling of which was announced this Monday, November 16 with an internet broadcast by the channel YouTube of the Cartagena City Council.The event was attended by the Councilor for Culture, David Martínez Noguera, along with the director of the Popular University and secretary of the jury, José Macián, as the award was announced by the Department of Culture and the Popular University of the City Council, with the aim of "remembering and vindicating the memory of a poet committed to his time, and with initiatives such as the founding of the Popular University of Cartagena in 1932.

In addition, his poetic and critical work has been recognized as one of the most significant of the Generation of 27 ", has explained the mayor.The award is endowed with the amount of € 7,200 and with the publication of the work by the publishing house Pre.Textos.In this edition the participation has been exceeded with 239 works.

As David Martínez has indicated "works have been received from both the European continent and Latin America and the United States, which reflects the vocation and international scope of the award, without diminishing the participation of poems sent from all over Spain and resident poets of Our city".To finish, the councilor has proceeded to read one of the poems, El cachimbo, from the recently awarded text by José Antonio Ramírez Lozano.The jury for this edition has been made up of renowned poets, such as Eloy Sánchez Rosillo, Luis Alberto de Cuenca y Prado, Vicente Gallego Barrado, Manuel Ramírez Giménez, Blanca Andreu Fernández-Albalat and José Macián Montesinos.ABOUT THE WINNING AUTHORJosé A.

Ramírez Lozano, born in Badajoz in 1950, has a degree in Philology and has published narrative and poetry, more than 80 works in total with significant awards for poetry such as Juan Ramón Jiménez, Unicaja, Cudad de Irú, Claudio Rodríguez, Ciudad de Badajoz, José Hierro, among others and also novel awards, among which Aateneo de Valladolid, Azorín, Cáceres, Ciudad de Valencia, Felipe Trigo, and others stand out.In 1986 he was a candidate for the National Prize with his novel Gárgola and, in addition, he has published youth literature with different publishers.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena