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This Friday morning, on the occasion of the events around the next day of the book, has been presented the edition of the winning work of the XXX Prize of Poetry Antonio Oliver Belmás, whose winner has been Misael Ruiz Albarracín with the poemario 'Todo es Real'.
The event was attended by the Councilor for Culture, David Martínez, the award-winning author and the director of the Popular University of Cartagena, Pepe Macián.
In this thirtieth edition, a total of 152 authors, both Spanish and European, such as France, Germany, Switzerland and Italy, concurred with their works;
Of South America as Colombia, Cuba, Argentina, Chile, Venezuela;
Of the United States and also of African countries like Morocco.
The selection of the winning work was carried out by a jury formed by illustrious national poets like Luis Alberto de Cuenca, Vicente Gallego, Blanca Andreu, Eloy Sánchez Rosillo or Manuel Ramírez.
The Antonio Oliver Belmás Poetry Prize is "the most important in the Region of Murcia and one of the most representative of the literary panorama in Spanish," said the mayor of Culture David Martinez, and has a provision of 5,000 euros for its winner As well as the publication of his work, which as set out in the competition's rules is published by the Pre-Texts publishing house.
In addition, Martinez announced that the call for the XXXI edition of this contest has already been approved in Plenary.
This contest commemorates the figure of the poet and founder of the Popular University, Antonio Oliver Belmás, and for this reason is organized every year from this entity and the Department of Culture in his honor.
Pepe Macián defined in his presentation to Misael Ruiz as "a poet who lives poetry intensely and who has a clear internal vocation".
During the event, some of the book's poems have been recited, such as 'Shooting Fish', 'Partially', 'Like Snow', 'The Wave', 'The Chair' or 'The Crossing' Who has affirmed to feel "excited" by this recognition and by the interpretation of its work.
"Each poem is the result of a way of being attentive to things, from the senses, the emotions and the ideas, the concepts, and all through the word, that is the one that brings together and gathers that Experience and at the same time gives it shape, creates it, "explained the winner of the prize in relation to this discipline and inspiration when writing.
For Ruiz, it is a matter of making present those aspects of reality that are latent.
However, he understands that "the poet is a passive subject" that he can do more than "propitiate a situation or a state that is conducive to that poetic intuition, is as a means through which poetry happens."
According to the author, it is ultimately the reader who "allows that poem to arise, set, and that which was dark, which had not yet been thought or intuited to be present."
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Misael Ruiz was born in Brussels in 1960 and has been living in different parts of the world throughout his life, which has influenced him both in his personal life and in his poetry.
At this moment resides in Mallorca, where he directs the poetic magazine 'Mechanisms'.
The winner of the XXX edition of the Poetry Prize Antonio Oliver Belmás previously published the book 'The Hollow of Things'.
He has also devoted much of his professional facet to the editing and translation of poetry.
Some of the authors he has translated are RS Thomas, Clive Wilmer, George Herbert or Catherine Pozzi.
In addition he won with the Santiago Sanz Translation Prize Ángel Crespo for his collaboration in the translation and edition of the 'Anthology poetic' of George Herbert
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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