Through his account on X, the president extended congratulations to all the winners in the “prestigious contest that honors those who have made such an impact on Latin American literature and culture,” he said.

The day before, the narrator and journalist Rubén Rodríguez (Holguín, 1969) received the Ibero-American Short Story Prize Julio Cortázar, for his work “Las codornices”, from the Cuban Minister of Culture Alpidio Alonso.

Rodriguez stressed at the ceremony the importance of this recognition of his work, a “small, simple, forceful text about cruelty that affects us all,” he said.

He also highlighted the value of the Prize for bearing the name of the Argentinian Julio Cortázar, a writer whom he admires, whom he began to read from a young age until he came to do it “excessively”.

Cuban writers who received mention in the competition were: Katherine Perzant for Animales deformes; Laidi Fernández for La Centinela; Laura Domingo for Viaje al Sur; and Miguel Terry for El portero que amaba la nieve. Also Raúl Vallejo, from Ecuador, for Figurinas de Valdivia en el fondo del mar; and the Argentine Yanina Audisio for Dionisio.

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