Merideña María Guevara is the winner of the 4th Lydda Franco Farías Biennial

Published at: 22/10/2024 10:24 AM

The writer María Virginia Guevara Carrillo from Merida won the 4th Lydda Franco Farías National Literature Biennial, Poetry mention.

The jury, convened by the National Book Center (CENAL) and composed of Coral Pérez Gómez, Sara Otero Santiso and Venus Ledezma Azuaje, unanimously decided to award the single prize to the work “Only Gods”, signed with the pseudonym “Procella” and which, once the escrow was opened, went to María Virginia Guevara Carrillo.

According to the verdict, the jury considered the work “because of its high elaboration in language, which is a laborious and careful composition of poetic images whose combination between form and background achieves, in each poem, unique pieces of notorious beauty and depth, which makes this work a luminous and revealing corpus, with rich thematic content. Without a doubt, a powerful poetry and voice, of the highest flight”.

“Only Gods” is the first book by María Virginia Guevara Carrillo, who is an editor, translator and cultural promoter, graduated in Classical Languages and Literatures from the University of the Andes.

Guevara will receive as a prize one hundred thousand bolivars (Bs 100,000, oo) and the publication of his work by Monte Ávila Editores.

The Lydda Franco Farías National Literature Biennial is promoted by the Ministry of Popular Power for Culture (MPPC), through Cenal, and is aimed at Venezuelan or foreign writers residing in the country who wish to participate with their unpublished works.

MINCULTURA PRESS