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To receive the Medal of Fine Arts makes me very honored and moved. I did not expect it, especially since I thought they had forgotten me. This is a very important recognition, without a doubt. Other colleagues have already received, like José Agustín, who is three years younger than me. It excites me and I am very grateful to those in charge. "
Such are the words of the writer Juan Tovar, who considered that in the decision to award him the prize" all my work is envisioned, but I think the dramatist facet. Last year the first volume of my assembled theater was published and it seems to me that this may have had some influence. "
With more than 50 years of work, Tovar has worked in several areas:" I started as a storyteller from an early age, but it seems to me that the facet of the theater is the one that s & # 39; 39 is the most outstanding, from the seventies to today. Since then, I have not stopped writing.
"I belong to a generation of writers who, without a doubt, opened the way, who expressed it very freely and broke certain paradigms; I am referring to the generation of the wave, with José Agustín, Parmenides García, Gustavo Sáinz and others. Gustavo said that I was El Chico de la Onda . "
Thus, in recognition of his contribution to art and culture in Mexico, INBA will award the Tovar Medal of Fine Arts.The delivery will be made at a ceremony which will take place in the hall Manuel M. Ponce of Palacio de Mármol next Wednesday, July 25 at 19:00
Originally from the city of Puebla, where He was born on October 23, 1941, at the 39 Juan Tovar's adolescence saw his future in the literature since the reality did not like, and to escape he began to write.He came to CdMx with this eagerness, and attracted by stories and novels , he began in these genres to later immerse himself in dramaturgy and scriptwriting for films, in addition to developing as a translator and journalist.He studied with Juan Jose Arreola, Luisa Josefina Hernandez and Emilio Carballido [19659002Heistheauthorofthenovels The sea under the earth (1967), The girl on the balcony or the presence of the retired colonel (1970) and creature one day (1980); as well as the anthology of news The man in the dark (1965) and the stories The mysteries of the kingdom (1966) and The place of the heart (1974)
Tovar wrote a special page in Mexican dramaturgy with iconic works such as Las adoraciones (1981), Manga of Clovo (1989), Manuscript found in Zaragoza (1985), The monk (1988), Healing of madness (1992) and Adorations (second version , 1993).
He is the author of the theatrical versions of The Marquise of Sade Aura The daughter of Rapaccini and The Encounters and the Scenario Reed Insurgent Mexico Pueblo Fantasma (in collaboration with Ricardo Vinós and Parmenides García Saldaña), ] Dollar Mambo and Family Chronicle among others
Translated the work of Carlos Castaneda, William Butler Yeats, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Jan Kott, Kakuan, Thomas Middleton and William Rowley into Spanish. He has also been a professor at the National School of Dramatic Arts of INBA and at the UNAM Theater University Center, as well as at the Film Training Center, at the University of Montreal. International School of Cinema and Television San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba and the Forum of the Rivera
Among other prizes got the Injuve History, History of the Word and Man ( 1966), novel of the first SEP Youth Contest (1970), Alfonso X Literary Translation (1984), Ariel (1987) and the national dramaturgy Juan Ruiz de Alarcón (2007).
Member of the National System of Art Creators of the National Fund for Culture and the Arts, was a collaborator of House of the Americas Diorama of Culture The Tale The Day Revue des Beaux-Arts ] Magazine University of Mexico and Still !
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