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Fina García
Marruz wins Ibero-American Pablo Neruda Prize
SANTIAGO DE CHILE.—The
prestigious Ibero-American Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize
has been awarded this year to the Cuban poet and
essayist Fina García Marruz, Culture Minister
Paulina Urrutia announced this Wednesday, having
first informed the winner personally by phone, PL
reports.
 The
announcement was made at a press conference,
together with the jury, composed of Chilean academic
Ana Pizarro, Peruvian writer Carlos Germán Belli and
Cuban poet and essayist Roberto Fernández Retamar.
Fina García Marruz, about to turn 84 and winner
of her country’s National Literature Prize,
emotively expressed her thanks for the award, to be
presented by President Michelle Bachelet during the
Ibero-American Culture Ministers Summit, in July in
Santiago.
Translated by Granma International
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