Margaret Randall Wins "Poem of Two Hemispheres" Award – La República EC



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Margatet Randall.

The eleventh edition of the international meeting of poetsZero parallel", In Ecuador, will deliver the award"Poet from both hemispheres"To the American Margaret Randall for his literary influence throughout Latin America, event organizers reported on Monday.

The Chilean poet Omar Lara and the Cuban Nancy Morejón will also be rewarded for their work and, as part of the tributes, the firm El Angel Editor will present the anthologies of his poetic works.

Angel Editor, a group that is organizing the meeting, said in a statement that the awarding of the prize to the United States will be made at a special ceremony to be held next Monday in a theater in the Ecuadorian capital and will be part of the activities of the meeting. Zero parallel ".

"This is the highest award" for the meeting to be held from April 7 to 13 and will host more than sixty poets from America and Europe, said the group's organizer. literary.

The meeting is sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and Heritage and the Department of Culture of the Municipality of Quito, with the collaboration of the House of Ecuadorian Culture and various educational institutions.

Sure Margaret Randall, the source said she (social and political activist, feminist, photographer and essayist) is considered "as a figure who has played an important role in America's history and its social and cultural struggles".

He was born December 6, 1936 in New York and, as an artist, he was part of the movement of abstract expressionists. He was also part of the so-called "Beat" and "Black Mountain" poets such as Charles Olsen and Joel Oppenheimer.

The first to receive the award "Two hemispheres" was the Argentine poet Juan Gelman, in 2013, followed by the poet and singer-songwriter Luis Eduardo Aute, in 2016 and the poet Antonio Gamoneda in 2017

The International Meeting of Poetry in Parallel Zero was born in 2008 in the hands of Xavier Oquendo, editor, poet and Ecuadorian cultural leader who managed to make the contest one of the most recognized literary festivals in Latin America, according to the organizers. EFE

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