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A<\/SPAN> total of 40 Dominican books are competing for this year\u2019s Eduardo Le\u00f3n Jimenes National Book Fair Prize. There is a long list of literary entries in which some of the best local writers are prominent. <\/P> \u201cThis prize is a recognition and stimulus for Dominican writers. For that reason, the Le\u00f3n Jimenes Group attracts the participation of local writers of significance and value….”<\/P> This year\u2019s books cover many different topics: literary, historical, research and didactic studies and represent some of the best Dominican authors of the day. The jury, comprised of well-known intellectuals such as Manuel Salvador Gautier, Jos\u00e9 Manuel Guzm\u00e1n Ibarra and Jos\u00e9 M\u00e1rmol, will choose one winner among the many contestants to receive the award that carries a cash prize of 450,000 pesos and an official certificate. <\/P> The awards ceremony is scheduled for Sunday April 23 at the XII International Book Fair of Santo Domingo 2009. <\/P> The variety and quality of those competing for the award this year demonstrates the importance and interest this prize awakens in Dominican writers in recent years. Last year, writer Juan Daniel Balc\u00e1cer won the prize for the book \u201cTrujillo: The Tyrannicide of 1961.\u201d Before him, a long list of Dominican intellectuals went home with the award, including Marcio Veloz Maggiolo for \u201cTrujillo, Villa Francisca and Other Ghosts\u201d in 1997; Amadeo Juli\u00e1n the following year for \u201cBanks, Ingenuity and Slaves in Colonial Era\u201d; Manuel Rueda with \u201cThe Metamorphosis of Makandal\u201d in 1999; Bernardo Vega with \u201cThe United States and Trujillo: The Final Days 1960-1961\u201d and Miguel Guerrero with his book \u201cOn the Verge of Chaos,\u201d won in the year 2000. <\/P> In 2001, \u201cThe Motives of the Machete\u201d by Jos\u00e9 Miguel Soto Jim\u00e9nez was recognized with the prize. Following is a list of other winners and their books: \u201cThe Decline of the Dominican Nation\u201d by Manuel N\u00fa\u00f1ez, in 2002; \u201cAnnotated Work Code\u201d by Lupo Hern\u00e1ndez Rueda, in 2003; \u201cMerengue: Music and Dance of the Dominican Republic\u201d by Catana P\u00e9rez de Cuello and Rafael Solano, in 2004 and \u201cHow the Americans Helped Balaguer into Power in 1996\u201d by Bernardo Vega, in 2005. In 2006, the young writer, Edwin Espinal won the prize for his \u201cSocial History of Santiago 1863-1900.\u201d Jeannette Miller won in 2007 with the book \u201cThe Importance of Historic Context in the Development of Dominican Art: Chronology of Dominican Art: 1844-2005\u201d.<\/P> <\/P><\/TD><\/TR> Forty Books Compete for the Eduardo Le\u00f3n Jimenes National Book Fair 2009 Prize A total of 40 Dominican books are competing for this year\u2019s Eduardo Le\u00f3n Jimenes National Book Fair Prize. There is a long list of literary entries in which some of the best local writers are prominent. \u201cThis prize is a recognition and … Continue reading “Forty Books Compete for the Eduardo Le\u00f3n Jimenes National Book Fair 2009 Prize”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\u201cThis prize is a recognition and stimulus for Dominican writers. For that reason, the Le\u00f3n Jimenes Group attracts the participation of local writers of significance and value. The Le\u00f3n Jimenes Group is once again offering this prize with the firm goal of supporting literary creations as well as contributing to the development of consciousness, the capacity for analysis and the oral and written expression of our people,\u201d said Teodoro Hidalgo, Director of Corporate Affairs of the Le\u00f3n Jimenes Group.<\/P>
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