Radio Cadena Agramonte emisiora de Camagüey
Havana, Dec 27.- The 2023 National Publishing Prize in Cuba was awarded to the writer and editor Enrique Pérez Díaz, according to a jury chaired by the poet, essayist, art critic and researcher Virgilio López Lemus.
The court, which sat at the Dulce María Loynaz Cultural Center in Havana, was also integrated by the 2020 National Publishing Award Mercy Ruíz; the editor and literary critic Basilia Papastamatiu; the poet and narrator Lourdes González; and the poet and publisher Luis Yusef.
According to him, Pérez Díaz is an excellent editor, in addition to being a very notable manager and a leader in the Cuban publishing world.
He has carried out his work as a writer with equal effectiveness, one of the most outstanding in the panorama of literature for children and young people in Cuba, the minutes stressed.
Born in this capital, on April 11, 1958, he graduated in Journalism from the University of Havana and is also a poet, narrator, journalist, critic and literary researcher.
According to the Cuban portal Ecured, he practiced journalism for more than 30 years on radio, television, newspapers, agencies and cultural magazines.
From 1993 to 2008 he was president of the Children's Literature Section of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba and member of the Cuban Committee of the International Organization for Youth Books (IBBY).
Co-author of the chapter on Cuban children's literature for The New History of Cuban Literature from 1959 to 1989, Pérez Díaz wrote another on the subject in Latin America and the Caribbean for the Routledge Encyclopedia of Children Literature, from England.
In 1998, his research project The Nobel Prize in Literature for Children was selected for development through a grant from the Internationale Jugendbibliothek (International Youth Library) in Munich, Germany.
He has also been associate editor for Cuba of Bookbird, of the IBBY, collaborator of the Latin American Magazine of Literature for children and young people, of the magazine Vagón Literario (of Alfaguara) and editor and journalistic editor of the newsletter Meñique Informa, of the Cuban Committee of the IBBY.
As a lecturer and as a reporter he has participated in scientific events and taught courses in Spain, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Mexico, Germany, Colombia, Canada, Italy, Switzerland.
In 2014 he was appointed international jury for the Hans Christian Andersen Prize, considered the Nobel Prize for children's literature. (Text and photo: PL)
