Framed within the acts of the poetic festival Deslinde, this Thursday November 9 at 7:00 pm will be presented on the ground floor of the Cultural Center Ramón Alonso Luzzy the book 'Mark Oliver', an anthology that collects a sample of all poets winners of the Oliver Belmás Prize in its first thirty years (1986-2016), whose selection has been run by the poet -and winner of this award- Antonio Marín Albalate.
The event will be attended by the delegate councilor for Culture, Education and Equality, David Martínez Noguera, along with various award-winning authors and the person responsible for the anthology, which has been published by the Balduque Publishing House and has a prologue by the poet and National Award of Poetry Luis Alberto de Cuenca, member of the jury that awards the award each year.
In this text Luis Alberto de Cuenca highlights that "some of the most important and distinguished names of Spanish and Latin American poetry of our time have paraded through the gallery of 'Oliver Belmás', an award that has been characterized at all times by the rigor , the freedom of judgment and, why not, the success of the jury when choosing the winner ".
The Oliver Belmás Prize for poetry is one of the veterans of Spanish literature and also one of the prizes that has acquired the most prestige, and bears the name of the writer and poet who founded, together with his wife, the writer and academic Carmen Conde, the Popular University of Cartagena in 1931.
The event is scheduled to open a memorial of this event, which includes an express mention of the winners of the thirty editions of the prize, and which is the work of the artist Nati Serrano.
'Marca Oliver' was presented on Tuesday in Madrid, at the Librería Lé, in an event that included the participation of the Councilor for Culture, David Martínez, Luis Alberto de Cuenca, Altonio Marín Albalate, and the director of the Popular University , José Macián, and also attended by several of the winners.
The public reading of the ruling of the XXXI edition of the Antonio Oliver Belmás International Poetry Prize will take place next Monday, November 13 at 12:00 in the Ceremonial Hall of the Consistorial Palace and will have the participation of the Mayoress of Cartagena, Ana Belén Castejón, and members of the jury.
The entrance to this act is free.
With this act the second edition of the poetic festival Deslinde will be finished.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena