The renowned poet, writer and teacher Manuel Matos Moquete This Tuesday night deserved the Eduardo León Jimenes National Book Fair Award 2024 for his work “The crucible and the sieve. Learning stories“.
The literary piece and its author were praised by the jury for “praising the noblest aspects of the dominican traditions and of the human being, highlighting its valuesin which he makes very clear his love for his origins and loyalty to his own.”
The recognition of the Eduardo León Jimenes Foundation and the Directorate of the Book Fair was delivered within the framework of the pre-inaugural cycle of the Santo Domingo International Book Fair 2024which will be celebrated in the month of November by the Minister of Culture, Milagros Germán, and Maria Amalia Leon Jimenes, president of the Eduardo León Jimenes Foundationalong with Joan Ferrer, director of the FILSD, and Ana Martínez, director of Legal and Corporate Relations of Cervecería Nacional Dominicana (CND).
- The author of the work “The crucible and the sieve. Learning stories” will receive an endowment of one million pesos
For the first time in the history of the contest, the members of the jury gave an honorable mention to the work “True Life in the Caribbean. The novel by James Gatto“, by the author Aurora Arias, valuing the transcendence and originality of the novel.
Love of the art of reading
Manuel Matos Moquete He spoke some emotional words gratitudededicating the book to his mother and his wife, Lizet Rodríguez, who was present.
“The book is a journey of my originsto that spiritual value, the personal and human value that allowed me to say – where am I going? – a question we asked ourselves at that time, in a place totally isolated from the world, and those images of books and the love of reading Since my childhood, it was what inspired me to create a little library in Tamayo that today has become “The crucible and the sieve,” said the laureate. writer of 80 years.
Moquete received the distinction in the Aída Cartagena Portalatín room of the National Library amid the applause of art and cultural personalities. culture that filled the place.
The poet stated that the book contains an essential part of his entire journey into the universe of books for forty years.
“I want to honor the fundamental educational ideas in a general sense: the methods, the programs, the studies, because I want to leave a record of how we learned before… I feel very satisfied, happy and wish that this book also inspires”Award-winning writer
The jury highlighted in its award that the essayist promises to demonstrate how the formative value of education It impacts life and is set as an example.
Maria Amalia Leonpresident of the Eduardo León Jimenes Foundationindicated: “With this award we pay tribute to the Dominican book, as an object filled with spirit and as a bond capable of uniting minds and souls.”
While the Minister of Culture, Milagros Germanconsidered that the National Award Book Fair bets on the future to face the social, political, ethical and cultural experience that “will make us grow for a better country.”
Path
Manuel Matos Moquete (Bahoruco, 1944), is also narrator, essayisteducator and literary critic. He has developed extensive work as a professor and researcher at the Autonomous University of Saint Dominic (UASD) and the Technological Institute of Saint Dominic (Intec).
Some of his publications are “The culture of the language” and “The intellectuals of power II”.
- For this twenty-seventh edition of the Eduardo León Jimenes National Book Fair Award 2024, 53 works published between January 1 and December 31, 2023 were presented.
- The members of the jury were Gerardo Roa Ogando, Priscilla Velásquez Rivera and Jochy Herrera, chaired ex officio, with voice, but without vote, by the general director of the Book FairJoan Ferrer.
The criteria considered by the jury for the selection of the award-winning work were: the significance and quality of the text, language skills, intellectual skill or creative capacity, structure of the book, originality and contribution to the national bibliographic wealth.
