translated from Spanish: Mexican poet Gloria Gervitz obtains Ibero-American Poetry Prize Pablo Neruda 2019

Yesterday, the Minister of Culture, Consuelo Valdés, announced to the Mexican poet and translator, Gloria Gervitz, CO Mo New Latin American Poetry Prize Pablo Neruda 2019. The Secretary of State informed him via telephone the reasons why the jury decided to recognize her because of her career as a poet.
Minister Valdés stressed that “for our ministry this 2019 is the year of women creators and this announcement comes again to contribute and highlight the female figure and above all a poetic. The jury was talking about visualize more the creation of women and Gloria embodies that poetry that touches the subject very thoroughly. ”
He also stressed that “it has been very interesting to hear the members of the jury, in a totally difficult task, because all the candidates merited a distinction. For me it was also a great honor to participate in the discussion with foreign and Chilean jurors illustrating the movement of poetry in our continent that is very alive and that this award is also a stimulus for so many young people who are in that way. ”
Jury with Minister Consuelo Valdés
Unanimous decision
For his part, the award-winning was surprised and grateful for the recognition and said to the phone in a live contact: “Somehow the poem and I have a very symbiotic relationship. For my good fortune with this incredible award, which I also have to say, is the first I won in my life, I am 50 years of writing poetry and 42 years of writing ‘ migrations ‘.
The jury was composed of the writer, poet and Chilean musician Mauricio Redolés (1953); The National Prize for Literature 2016, Manuel Silva Acevedo (1942); The novelist, translator and essayist Argentina, María Negroni (1951), the Ecuadorian writer Ernesto Carrión (1977); And the Peruvian narrator Miguel Ildefonso Huanca (1970), who unanimously deliberated the award to the Mexican artist.
The Ibero-American Poetry Prize Pablo Neruda was created in 2004 by agreement between the Ministry of Cultures, the Pablo Neruda Foundation, as a tribute to the centenary of the Chilean poet and Nobel Prize in literature 1971, to recognize an author or writer for his Trajectory and remarkable contribution to the cultural and artistic dialogue of Ibero-America.
The award is of an annual character and consists of a medal, a diploma and 60,000 dollars, which places it as the most relevant in the Ibero-American region. It also undertakes the edition of a poetic anthology of the author.
In previous versions, the Poets José Emilio Pacheco (Mexico) have obtained it, Juan Gelman (Argentina), Carlos Germán Belli (Peru), Fina Garcia-Marruz (Cuba), Carmen Berenguer (Chile), Ernesto Cardenal (Nicaragua), Antonio Cisneros (Peru), Óscar Hahn (Chile), Nicanor Parra (Chile), José Kozer (Cuba), Reina Maria Rodríguez (Cuba), Augusto de Campos (Brazil), Raúl Zurita (Chile), Joan Margarit (Spain) and Elvira Hernández (Chile).

Original source in Spanish