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Orlando Echeverri Benedetti, Pilar Quintana Villalobos, Roberto Burgos Cantor, Gilmer Mesa Sepulveda and Antonio García Ángel, are the nominees for the National Novel Prize of the Ministry of Culture.
The winner will receive 60 million pesos. The decision will be made public on Thursday, July 26.
Two Valle del Cauca, two Cartagena and one Paisa make up the group of five finalists of the National Roman Prize awarded by the Ministry of Culture, to exalt the best novelistic production. 19659002] The jury, composed of the Mexican writer Álvaro Enrigue and Colombians Luis Fayad and Liliana Ramírez, chose Pilar Quintana, with "La Perra", Antonio García Ángel, with "Declive", Gilmer Mesa Sepúlveda with the " Cuadra ", Roberto Burgos Cantor with" See what I see "and Orlando Echeverri Benedetti with" Criacuervo "
The five novels were selected from 78 proposals, all published between January 1, 2016 and December 31, 2017. [19659002ThelastwinnersoftheNationalNovelPrizewerethewritersEvelioRoserowith"LaCarrozadeBolívar"(2014)andOctavioEscobarGiraldowith"AfterandbeforeGod"(2016)
Between 2010 and In 2018, the Ministry of Culture allocated $ 460 million to eight winners of the National Prize for Literature
Orlando Echeverri
Orlando Echeverri was born in 1980. He studied philosophy and was editor of the newspaper El Universal
He collaborated with several media, including magazines El Malpensante and Universo Centro
He lived in the deep south of Thailand, where he taught English and worked as a photographer.
2014 won the National Idarte Roman Prize with the book Without a Brake on the Bad Road published by El Peregrino Ediciones.
Criacuervo is his second novel.
Desert history and intimacy with water, inhospitable landscapes of the Guajira and the old streets of Berlin, about two men who are brothers and who, nevertheless, more than by the blood, seem united by the dreaded defeat force of Madora
Pilar Quintana
Pilar Quintana published three novels: "Tickle in the tongue". (Planeta, 2003), "Collectors of Rare Powder & # 39; (Norma, 2007) and & # 39; Conspiracy & # 39; iguana "(Norma, 2009), and the collection of stories" Caperucita se come al lobo "(Cuneta, 2012).
In 2018, the writer Valle del Cauca wins the prize of the Colombian narrative library for the novel "La Perra". . In 2007, she was selected by the Hay Festival among the 39 most outstanding writers under 39 in Latin America. In 2010, he received the VIIIth Prize of the novel La Mar de Letras by collectors of rare powders. In 2011, she participated in the International Writing Program of the University of Iowa as a resident writer and in 2012 at the International Writers Workshop of Hong Kong Baptist University as a Guest writer.
In 2013, she was encouraged by the Cinematography Fund script for a feature film for her project "Lavaperros", written in collaboration with Antonio García Ángel. In 2016, he received a boost from the call for applications for national internships of the Ministry of Culture for his project "La Isla Cuenta". His stories have been translated into several languages and have appeared in magazines and anthologies from Latin America, Spain, Italy, Germany, the United States and China. He dictates creative writing workshops.
Roberto Burgos Cantor
He was born in Cartagena de Indias in 1948.
He wrote stories in newspapers and magazines until 1981, when the book of history "Lo Amador", which takes today four editions. Since then, his fiction is relevant to experimentation as a renewal of history and the persistent appropriation of the language as a character and emblem. His vision of nature, contrasting with the despair of a world where beings confront the consolations of provisional truths and the radicality of these, generates a tension that energizes the stories. He has published six books of history: "Lo Amador", "De jove y desvelos", "Quiero es cantar", "Juego de niños", "Una siempre es la misma" and "El secreto de Alicia"; a witness book of the time, "Señas particulares", and five novels: "The Patio of Lost Winds," "The Flight of the Dove," & # 39; Pavana del Ángel, "La Ceiba de la memoria & # 39; – winner of the Narrative Casa de las Américas Prize 2009 and finalist of the Prix Rómulo Gallegos 2010- and "Ese silencio"
"It is the twentieth century and survival is the only aspiration of a displaced district on the Caribbean coast. Its inhabitants, visible from the obstacle that they generate to this new society, fail to belong only to their fears and their memories. A man embraced by ruin takes refuge in the luck of the game while waiting for life to give him some light, the past that no longer happens. Far from casinos and paris, a woman always sees the same thing: the sea and its brightness, the fortified city, the mangrove, the neighbors and the foreigners; plumbers, musicians, thieves, prostitutes, carpenters, stylists, boxers. With his eyes, he immerses us in the secrets of life in this underground world of unfinished desires. "
Gilmer Mesa Sepúlveda
Born in Medellín in 1978, where he has always lived, he studied Philosophy and Literature at the Pontifical Bolivarian University of Medellín, of which he is now a professor [19659002] The stable, is his first novel.
"With latent energy and pain, as if Twenty-five years have not pbaded since the death of his brother, the Narrator remembers how he grew up in Aranjuez, his neighborhood, in the turbulent Medellín of the late eighties, cornered by poverty, boredom and despair. the block had no other alternative than violence: to be someone one had to take a weapon, not caring about the inevitably expected return of death, desolate, moving, exciting, this novel testimonial is more than the story of some young people; in a way, the mirror of a time and a country. "
Antonio García
He was born in Cali in 1972. He studied literature and communication at the Javeriana University of Bogotá.I published & # 39; His house is my home, his first novel.In 2004, he was elected to the Masters and Disciples Program of Rolex Watchmaking (The Rolex Mentor and Protected Arts Initiative), which allowed him to To have a year of tutoring from Mario Vargas Llosa.In 2006, he published "Human Resources", his second novel.As part of Bogotá, book world capital, was chosen in 2007 as one Of the thirty-nine writers under 39 years of age most representative of Latin America.In 2010, he published the book of stories 'Domestic Animals', in 2015, the most popular Jumma's essay of Maqroll el Gaviero and in 2016 the novel "Declive". He is currently editor of the book Book to the Wind.
About Declive & # 39; [1945] 9009] Jorge wakes up to go to work and realizes that his feet have grown. He puts on his shoes with difficulty and before getting on the bus he loses one and has to go half barefoot to the call center where he works. At this minimum inconvenience similar others will be added, thus increasing the feeling of agitation and pushing Jorge to the announced decline.
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