2024-06-01 16:59:49
The Romanian poet Ana Blandianawho made poetry a weapon of resistance in opposition to dictatorship communist that her nation suffered, is the winner of the Princess of Asturias Award for Literature 2024.
“Blandiana symbolizes the conscience and testimony of her time,” the jury of the Letters Awardone of many eight annual awards that bear the title of the inheritor to the Corona Spanish and that are essentially the most prestigious within the Hispanic world.
The award, established in 1981, is endowed with 50 thousand euros (about 54 thousand {dollars}) and a sculpture created by the late Catalan artist Joan Miró
In statements printed by the inspiration that grants the prize, Blandiana expressed her “emotion and gratitude.”
“I can’t assist however bear in mind Plato’s thought that advisable the crowning of poets with laurels and their expulsion from town. However, what if for me poetry is known as a path to the polis, a approach to keep, a approach to accompany the struggling of others?!!!” the writer mirrored.
Otilia Valeria Coman, literary title Ana Blandiana, was born in Timişoara on March 25, 1942.
“Daughter of an ‘enemy of the folks’, she was prohibited from finding out on the college after the looks in 1959 of her first poem in {a magazine},” within the midst of the communist dictatorship (1947-1989), the jury defined.
In 1964 he printed his first ebook of poems, PFirst Particular person Pluralattaining success two years later with The Susceptible Heel.
Most of his work, greater than a decade of books, is devoted to poetry, however he has additionally printed improbable tales, a few novels and books of essays.
The awards, which took their title from the title of the inheritor to the throne of the Spanish Crown, Princess Leonor, will likely be offered by her and the kings Philip VI and Letizia in October at a ceremony in Oviedo, capital of Asturias.
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2024-06-01 16:59:49