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Fifth edition of the award in Mexico
Journalist Roberto Bardini won the LIPP Brasserie Award 2016
May 24, 2016For presenting a new plot that combines adventure with crime fiction and be framed in a well-recognized historical background, the jury awarded journalist, writer and teacher Roberto Bardini (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1948) for his work A cat in the Caribbean, of Resistencia Publishing House.
When reading the agreement by the jury, composed by Alberto Chimal, Beatriz Rivas, Cristina Rivera Garza, Eduardo Antonio Parra, Monica Lavín, Rafael Pérez Gay, Rogelio Flores, Silvia Molina and Xavier Velasco, Gastón Melo, also a member, said that the characters of the winning novel are memorable because they embody a cultural mix that gives variety to the story and make it a closed realistic universe, recognizing a precise and direct prose, with an agile rhythm according to the Caribbean’s.
When taking the floor, Roberto Bardini appreciated the recognition and pointed out that his work is an adventure novel of crime fiction genre for adults that arose when he wondered what happened to his generation, who read novels of pirates, smugglers and heroes, the same that did not have Internet. "What happened to my generation? Are we believing in that world in which there are heroes and causes?” he questioned.
The collaborator in newspapers, magazines, news agencies and radio, said that for the making of A cat in the Caribbean he took advantage of his experience as a journalist, foreign correspondent and special envoy to write the novel with real characters, the only fictional is a cat .
“The cat is actually a character in stories of Argentine writer and journalist Rodolfo Walsh, who wrote an open letter to the military junta of the dictatorship in 1977," he shared.
Meanwhile, writer Monica Lavin, jury member, described A Cat in the Caribbean as a quick reading story, set in Belize and Mexico a little at a time historically named shortly.
He said that the author mixed characters and Santeria rites, and in the novel the author covers Central America that has been underserved in literary terms.
The LIPP la Brasserie restaurant, which headquarters is located in the bohemian neighborhood Saint-Germain-des-Prés of the French capital, stimulates literary creation since 1935 with Le Prix Cazes Brasserie Lipp, which in its Mexican version promotes the narrative tradition with the literary LIPP Award, mainly addressed to publishing houses that promulgate on a regular basis Spanish-speaking novels. This recognition is made in Mexico for the fifth time and has the support of the Department of Culture.
With the representation of the Department of Culture, Alejandro Merlin, from the General Directorate of Publications, thanked the LIPP Award and its organizers for the invitation to participate in this event, which every year rewards the best literature in Spanish, because "it encourages publishers in their efforts to do more and better literature."
At the event, where the winner, who will get a financial recognition of 100,000 pesos, was announced, there was also a special mention to the novel Todos los demonios (All the demons), by Alejandro Paniagua.
Mexico,Distrito Federal
