The Casa de las Americas Literary Prize returns today to Cuba's cultural agenda with a wide range of activities focused on promoting the best in the world of the region´s literature.

The celebration of the 63rd edition of The oldest award of its kind on the continent, will be taking place from April 24 to 28 – a date that marks the 64th anniversary of the institution, and by doing so will close the cycle of tributes for the centenary of its founder Haydee Santamaria and will also bring up the birth, a century ago, of Fina Garcia Marruz.

On this occasion, the prize was awarded in the genres of short stories, testimonial literature, studies on black presence in contemporary America and the Caribbean, as well as in Brazilian literature, with books of fiction published in Portuguese between 2020 and 2022.

According to the director of the Literary Research Centre of the institution, Jorge Fornet, ‘there has been an avalanche of entrants with more than 350 short story works, nearly 200 testimonial works and as many others in the rest of the categories.

He also stressed that the event will be honored by the Venezuelan writer Gustavo Pereira, ‘one of the most notable Latin American poets of today and winner of the Jose Lezama Lima award with the title “Diario de revelaciones”, and who will be in charge of the opening speech of the event at the official constitution of the jury.

The jury will be composed of Oliverio Coelho and Telma Luzzani (Argentina), Luis Laya and Jesus ‘Chucho’ Garcia (Venezuela), Alberto Marrero, Alberto Curbelo and Ingrid Brioso (Cuba), Yuderkis Espinosa (Dominican Republic), Mario Araujo and Clara Dias (Brazil).