Jesús Farías Rojas won the second trasnocho dramaturgy competition

"Political Animal" by Jesús Farías Rojas, became the winning work of the second dramaturgical competition of Trasnocho. The writer there plant idiosyncrasies of the country's politicians, presented under the pseudonym "Melquiades".

The jury awarded the prize unanimously because "it is a work dramatically very well constructed, with complex characters in their characterization and defined in their roles, fluid dialogues, a beautiful literary writing ", according to the final verdict, signed by Gustavo Ott, winner of the first edition of the contest; Solveig Hoogesteijn, general coordinator of Cultural Trasnocho; Héctor Manrique, actor and director; Pilar Arteaga, scriptwriter and Eva Ivanyi, production designer.

Farías describes his work as "the story of two men at Central Park in New York in the middle of the harshest winter of 1948, Isaías Medina Angarita, former president of Venezuela recently overthrown and Laureanito Vallenilla Lanz.A goodbye and a conversation that, perhaps, would change the life of one of them, and divide into two the modern history of the country. "

The prize consists of a monetary recognition and a physical publication of the work under the direction of the publisher Lugar Común.

The verdict also awarded a special mention to the work "Lautrec" by Henry Zapata Ferseca, for "his originality of the human vision of the famous painter Toulouse Lautrec, in the reconstruction of a fragment of his daily life, which realizes transmitting the complexity of artistic life in the Paris of its time "