translated from Spanish: Mario Bellatin won prize Ibero-American of lyrics José Donoso 2018

the Mexican writer Mario Bellatin was chosen as winner of the 18th version of the Pre My Iberoamericano de lyrics José Donoso, which delivers the University of Talca in recognition of the history of Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking writers since 2001.
“Wow…”, was the word with which the recipient responded to be notified by phone by the Coordinator of the prize, the researcher of the UTalca, Claire Mercier, of the decision of the international jury formed by academics Ana Gallego, of the University of Granada (Spain); Anne Kraume, of the University of Konstanz (Germany); Werner Mackenbach, University of Costa Rica; Maarten Van Delden, of the University of California (USA) and Andrea Kottow, of the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (Chile).
“I can’t believe it, Oh… that honor, joy, really what I can’t believe, José Donoso which is my author’s bedside… madness, am amazed”, said from Mexico, where – as stated – now is “trying to write a monstrous work”.
“I’m doing a work of revision, so I’m back to narrators who are fundamental for me, I want to make a lattice with the books that I have already written… is for me a very delicate, difficult work”, explained on the work that, he felt, should finish in a couple of years more.
“Horizon of possibilities works such as”Beauty Salon”,”Women of salt”,”Flowers”,”Large glass”and” effect greenhouse “are among the numerous references generated by Belletin during more than three decades, work that the jury described as a” literary project bold, disturbing and original”which, in addition,”points to a horizon of possibilities”.
“His work is constructed as a perpetual game around the conventional forms of narrating, conceiving the literary space and approaching their characters. This game leads to the invention of a language, that goes beyond the traditional boundaries of literary writing and invites to a disturbing reading experience”, noted specialists in the minutes that officialized the recognition ceremony .
In the same text, they stressed that “the literary aesthetics of Bellatin articulated body politics which, through the revelation of their fragility, questioning ideas and dominant norms,” putting them in relation to issues such as death, disease and anomaly.
Global and local “his narrative work, composed of more than twenty titles, makes visible the cracks between the Latin American and the universal, the local and the global. Build strange worlds that crystallize our vital uncertainties from experimentation and humor. “His writing problematizes established literary distribution in pursuit of alternative circuits of artistic production and dissemination methods and routes”, observed.
The Premio Iberoamericano de lyrics José Donoso – which consists of a diploma, a medal and 50 thousand dollars which are delivered by Banco Santander, sponsor of the competition – will be delivered within the framework of the international book fair of Santiago.
It should be recalled that in 2017 the distinction went to the poet Raúl Zurita, while in previous years José Emilio Pacheco (2001), Beatriz Sarlo (2002), Isabel Allende (2003), Antonio Cisneros (2004), Ricardo Piglia (2005), António Lobo Antunes (2006), obtained it Miguel Barnet (2007), Javier Marias (2008), Jorge Volpi (2009), Diamela Eltit (2010), Sergio Ramírez (2011), Juan Villoro (2012), Pedro Lemebel (2013), Silviano Santiago (2014), Rodrigo Rey Rosa (2015) and Pablo Montoya (2016).

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