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Havana, Dec 12. - The extraordinary work of the Cuban Revolution was dedicated to the poet, essayist and translator Nancy Morejón the title of Doctor Honoris Causa in Letters, which was conferred on her today in the Magna Classroom of the University of Havana (UH), of this capital.
The renowned cultural manager remembered her speech at the National Literature Prize (2001), expressing that none of her poems reflects the Revolution but does provoke her in her transcendent appearance, because she herself is a creature of that immense work.
She pointed out that the gesta lives like a splinter in the wound, the everyday sun, the changing moon of the neighborhoods and the depth of the Renaissance and primitive Haitian painters, always invented, but always visible.
She acknowledged being part of a family, a community, and a nation from which he has not been able to depart, because he claims them with love in each of his gestures.
The Criticism Prize four times (1982, 1986, 1997, 2000) expressed its anti-war position and in favor of the struggle for the full dignity of human beings.
She called for peace on a planet where destruction and death reign.
She also referred to transcendental events in the history of the Caribbean nation and humanity, and the imprint of personalities such as José Martí, Ramón Roa, Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro Ruz, and Camilo Cienfuegos, for sowing the love of independence.
Carmen María Torres, vice-dean of the Faculty of Arts and Letters of the UH, catalogued the title of Doctor Honoris Causa as an indispensable writer of the cultural history of the country.
Nancy Morejón's best poetry has forever sealed the musical and cultural legacy, the nation's treasure, in the image built, in collapsed gold, in the orishas present and in the magic of music, she said.
The event was chaired by Miriam Nicado García, member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and the Council of State, and rector of the UH; Walter Baluja García, Minister of Higher Education; Abel Prieto Jiménez, President of Casa de las Américas; Miguel Barnet, National Prize for Literature (1994); and Lesbia Vent Dumois, National Prize for Plastic Arts (2019).
Nancy Morejón has been worthy of multiple national and international recognitions, including the Insignia of Officer of the Order of Merit of the Republic of France (2004), the Struga Golden Crown Award of Macedonia (2006), the Rafael Alberti Prize (2007), and the title of Doctorate Honoris Causa (2009) by the Cergy-Pontoise University of Paris.
She is also a member of the Cuban Academy of Language and the Academy of Sciences of Cuba, holds the Replica of Machete de Máximo Gómez and the Alejo Carpentier Medal.
They are part of their extensive work "Mutismos" (1962), "Nation and mestizaje" in Nicolás Guillén (1982), "Piedra Pulida" (1986), Elogio y paisaje (1997), "La Quinta de los Molinos" (2000) and "Cuerda Veloz" (2002).
The title Honoris Causa in Letters is a prestigious distinction that grants the house of high studies to those who contribute significantly with their work to the development of culture in the largest of the Antilles. (Text: Gabriela Camila Castellanos Mora)
