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Bogotá.- Writer R obtaining Burgos Cantor won the National Roman Prize of Colombia through his work "See What I See", announced today by the Ministry of Culture.
The novel, It takes place in a district of the Atlantic coast of the twentieth century, tells the story of a man who has taken refuge in the game, will try to resurface the misery , waiting for the future to give him a better fortune in a marginalized world and By this story, that Burgos (Cartagena, 1948) took three years to write, wants to generate "an approach to this world of people who do not have by name ", where he feels that he lives
The jury noted that" See what I see ", published by the label of Seix Barral, is a work of" great literary purpose ", which surprises by the harmony of his sentences.
Burgos, who began his career writing stories for newspapers and magazines, presented in 1981 "Lo Amador", his first publication and starting point for a proliferous race.
The author was the winner in 2009 of Narrative Prize Casa de las Américas with the novel "La Ceiba of Memory" work that was also finalist of the P Rómulo Gallegos in 2010.
Burgos, who is director of the Department of Creative Writing of the Central University (Bogotá), expressed the personally stimulated feeling to be named winner and hope that the reader is not afraid to read what they call "difficult works". EFE
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