Chile Award to Nicaraguan Poet Cardenal
Santiago, Chile - Chilean President Michelle Bachelet
will grant on Monday the Ibero-American
Pablo Neruda poetry Award, the highest
distinction in Chile to that genre, to
Nicaraguan intellectual Ernesto Cardenal, La
Moneda Palace confirmed on Friday.
Cardrenal, an 84-year-old priest, expressed
in his last visit to Chile his great
admiration for the work by the Literature
Nobel Price winner, the Chilean poet that
had greater influence on him.
The jury's minute acknowledged Cardenal for
his success in "renovating the western
classical tradition, applying it to the
contemporary situation, for his interest in
and permanent concern about the original
people of this continent, and his political
commitment."
The jury was composed of Chilean Carmenr
Berenguer and Oscar Hahn, Argentinian Jorge
Boccanera, Colombian Juan Gustavo Cobo,
Spanish Selena Millares, and was presided
over by Culture Minister Paulina Urrutia.
During his stay in Santiago, the Nicaraguan
poet, known by his "Epigrams" and "Prayer
for Marilyn Monroe," will give poetry
recitals at the Chilean Writer Society (SECH)
headquarters.
The Neruda award has been granted to Mexican
Jose Emilio Pacheco (2004), Argentinian Juan
Gelman (2005), Peruvian Carlos German Belli
(2006), Cuban Fina Garcia Marruz (2007) and
Chilean Carmen Berenguer (2008).
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