translated from Spanish: Poet Morábito receives Xavier Villaurrutia award from writers

CDMX.-The Mexican poet Fabio Morábito received today the prize Xavier Villaurrutia of Writers for writers 2018 for his novel “The Reader at home”, said Tuesday the National Institute of Fine Arts (INBA) of Mexico. It is a prize of much lineage and also bears the name of Xavier Villaurrutia, who is one of my favorite poets, “said Morábito during the delivery of the recognition at the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City.

The novel “is a work of great originality with an enveloping rhythm and a lucid irony,” the jury said in its resolution of the prize.
Xavier Villaurrutia was established in 1955 on the initiative of literary critic Francisco Zendejas to stimulate, support and disseminate the Mexican letters and literary production of Latin and Ibero-American writers.
As a single condition, the winning work had to have been published in Mexico.

Between the work of Morábito, of 64 years, highlights “vacant lots”, winner of the Carlos Pellicer Award in 1985, “Monday year Round”, which won the Aguascalientes Prize in 1991 and “Someone from Lava” in 2002 and “The Wave that returns” in 2006. In addition, the Mexican won as essayist the P Remio Antonin Artaud in 2006 for his work “crack of fatigue”, as well as the White Raven in 1997 with his title “When the Panthers were not black”. 



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