The Elogio opportune space, in the Fayad Jamís Bookstore in Havana, will honor the Cuban poet, filmmaker and journalist Víctor Casaus next Thursday, on the occasion of his 80th birthday (March 10, 1944).
At the meeting, led by journalist and critic Fernando Rodríguez, attendees will learn about the work of this important documentary filmmaker, author of more than 15 titles, including On Life and Housing (1975), With Maiacovski in Moscow ( 1976), Thanks to Life (1976), and Let’s Walk Around Home (1980).
His signature also appears in the fiction feature films Como la vida misma (1985) and Bajo Pressure (1990), together with an extensive literary catalog that includes poems, testimonies, stories, works for children, essays, and translations and anthologies.
This is an opportunity for those who admire Casaus’ literature, since there they will be able to purchase his books published by Ediciones La Memoria, the label of the Pablo de la Torriente Brau Cultural Center, an institution founded and directed by him.
Víctor Casaus holds the José Antonio Fernández de Castro National Prize for Cultural Journalism for his life’s work, the Alejo Carpentier Medal, the Distinction for National Culture and the Juan Marinello Order, among many others.
The institution will open its doors from 3:00 p.m., local time, to the tribute and also to the music, as the troubadour Silvio Alejandro Rodríguez will participate, indicates the note from the Cuban Book Institute.
Sponsored by the Fayad Jamís Bookstore and the Culture and Social Sciences Sections of the Economic Society of Friends of the Country, The Timely Praise aims to honor writers, books, historical events and institutions that reach the closed anniversary.
It owes its name to Martí’s aphorism “timely praise encourages merit; and the lack of timely praise discourages him”, which appears in the pages of the newspaper Patria, in April 1892.
