Nicaragua: Gioconda
Belli's Recent Work
"El infinito en la palma
de la mano" (Infinity in
the Palm of Her Hand),
allegory about Adam and
Eve in paradise, part of
the award winner work of
the Nicaraguan writer
Gioconda Belli will be
launched and easily
accessible for every
public in Nicaragua.
The newest creation of
Belli, winner of 2008
Biblioteca Breve Award,
which this year
celebrates its 50th
anniversary, consisting
of 30,000 (approximately
44,135 dollars) and the
publication of the work
by Seix Barral in Spain,
is an imaginary history
of the first ever
existing man, according
to the author.
Belli pointed out that
this work in specific
was an unexpected
discovery and that it
had to pass on things
people don't know about
what had happened to
Adan and Eva after they
were threw out of the
Garden of Eden.
During the launching of
the book, carried out at
the bookstore El Parnaso,
the writer emphasized
her interest of
vindicating Eva from the
beginning in her work.
The myth of Adam and Eva
is very important,
because it marks the
identity of women like
the temptress, the
sinner, and it was a
pleasure for my, like a
woman, to have the
possibility of
vindicating her, she
pointed out.
Belli, born in Managua,
published her first work
in 1970, the year she
joined the Sandinista
Front of National
Liberation. She was
forced into exile and
lived in Mexico and
Costa Rica.
Belli has received many
awards for her works,
including the Mariano
Fiallos Gil Prize for "Sobre
la Grama" (On the
Grass), the Casa de las
Americas Prize for her
book of poems "Fuego de
linea" (Firing Line),
and the Premio de
Bibliotecarios, Editores
y Libreros (Librarians,
Publishers, and
Booksellers' Award) for
"La mujer habitada" (The
Inhabited Woman). |
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