That the Bautense poet and narrator Carlos Jesús Cabrera (1960-2014) continues to be a bastion of culture in his small homeland, has just been confirmed by the tribute that his life and work recently received at the Antonio Maceo Municipal Library, located in that Artemis municipality.
Several writers and promoters recalled the significant contributions of the author of The anonymous restorer, The transparent meat and This was your wish, among other works of recognized literary quality. The writer Mireysi García recognized the influence of Carlos Jesús’s teachings to shape her work as an author in her development and read several of Carlos’s poems present in her posthumous collection of poems. Another turn of the spiralwhere his maturity as a writer is impressive.
The researcher Osvaldo de la Caridad Padrón advocated that the Bautenses become the first defenders of Carlos’s work, in order to prevent such valuable creations from dying in oblivion, while the journalist Miguel Terry Valdespino recognized the strong generational ties, friendly and literary ties that united him with the deceased author of Navy Rose.
On these tribute dates, the awards of the Carlos Jesús Cabrera literary contest were also announced. In memoriamwhich on this occasion fell to Tomás Delfín Díaz for his story The light texture of Paradisewith a mention for Fisherwomen, by Reinier Del Pino Cejas. In the hands of this last author was the Children’s Literature award for Lullabies to sleep in a forest and the Aladécima Group Award, for Flattened.
José Luis Roque Zamora took top honors in the Poetry section for his work Melody confusedwhich he accompanied with a mention of the work Brief poetic anthology for a testament, signed by Arturo Márquez Mirabal. The jury of the contest was made up of the writers Osvaldo de la Caridad Padrón, Miguel Terry Valdespino and Pedro Fonte.
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