As a result of the collaboration between the Ministry of Culture and Instituto Cervantes of Spain, creative writing in Latin America will receive an important boost in the form of a literature award named after the Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez.
The award will launched at the International Book Fair in Bogotá next week.
The Hispanic Story Prize was announced by the Minister of Culture, Mariana Garcés Córdoba, in Aracataca as homage to García Márquez. The writer is considered as one of the greatest names in Latin American and international literature.
In this regard, the award is also a happy commemoration of the 60 years of writing of García Márquez since the publication of what is considered his first published story in the newspaper El Espectador.
Considered already as one of the highest awards of its kind, the prize is a gesture of recognition for Latin American writers as such initiatives have never been consolidated before. The Prize will promote rising stars in the region as well as the invaluable effort to maintain and extend the legacy of important and prominent authors in the region that were Jorge Luis Borges, Juan Rulfo, Julio Cortázar and Gabriel García Márquez.