Andrés Rojas won the XI Ramón Palomares National Literature Biennial
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Published at: 07/11/2025 08:14 AM
With the work “Last Ardencies”, which was presented under the pseudonym Machije Ordaz, the writer Andrés Rojas won the XI National Biennial of Literature Ramón Palomares, mention Poetry.
According to the jury made up of Ernesto Román Orozco, Julio Borromé and Libeslay Bermúdez, he selected this work as the winner “for the sustained vitality and power in each of his poems”.
In addition, the decision was also based on the fact that, according to the experts, this literary piece “collects and takes up nostalgia from a subtle erotic component, as a proposal of totality based on a metalanguage, written in prose, achieving in each text an important semantic management at the end of each work, which makes it a corpus worthy of the first and only place in this friendly and luminous contest of the word as search, destiny and creation”.
The biennial, organized by the Ministry of Popular Power for Culture (MPPC) through the National Book Center (CENAL) and aimed at Venezuelan and foreign writers residing in the country, closed on August 15 with the reception of 106 manuscripts.
Andrés Rojas is a poet, editor, cultural promoter, independent radio producer, draftsman and painter born in El Morro de Puerto Santo, Sucre (1961) and residing in Cabimas, Zulia state.
In addition to his fondness for writing and the arts, he is a professor in Physics with a master's degree in Mathematics and a doctorate in Education. In addition, he has been a researcher in the area of teacher training and curriculum development.
CENAL/Mazo News Team