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The edition number LXIII of the Prize of the Critic will fail in the city of Murcia in the next days 19 to the 21 of April.

The Spanish Association of Literary Critics (AECL) announces this award each year and this time has chosen Murcia to inform the winners of this year.

In total there will be 21 critical members of the jury who, in addition, will count in this edition as a guest personality to Neria de Giovanni, president of the International Association of Literary Critics.

The Critics' Prize is among the most prestigious in the Spanish literary scene and will be decided in Murcia at the initiative of Murcia's professors and critics who raised their proposal to the AECL.

When Mayor José Ballesta received the proposal to host the award in his city, he showed maximum interest in Murcia being chosen as the venue for such an important cultural event since the city will be visited by some of the most important Spanish literary critics who will participate in the event. jury.

The history of this award began in 1956, in the post-war Spain, from the proposal of a group of literary critics who decided to create an independent award, of recognized prestige, in order to counteract the influence of commercial awards.

Thus, this literary prize was organized every year, which counts among its winners the most important writers of poetry and fiction (novel and short story) from Cela, Torrente Ballester and Delibes to Luis Mateo Díez, Merino and Javier Marías, passing through Ana Matute, Vargas Llosa, Aldecoa, Sanchez Ferlosio, Marsé, Ricardo Piglia, Cristina Fernandez Cubas and Aramburu, among other great storytellers of yesterday and today;

and from Vicente Aleixandre, Luis Rosales and Blas de Otero to José Ángel Valente, José Hierro, Caballero Bonald.

Francisco Brines, Claudio Rodríguez and María Victoria Atencia, including Guillermo Carnero, García Montero and Luis Alberto de Cuenca, among other front-line poets.

The Critics' Prize, which had always been held in Zaragoza, Barcelona and Madrid, began its journey through other Spanish cities, changing the venue in which it is awarded every year.

The last cities that welcomed him are those of Soria, Santa Cruz de La Palma, Pontevedra, Logroño, Cáceres, Santander, La Coruña, Seville, or Lugo, among others.

As of 1975, the Critic's Prize includes literature written in Catalan, Galician and Basque every year, being the only literary prize awarded in the four official languages ​​of the Spanish state.

Thus, the most important Catalan, Galician and Basque poets and narrators have seen his work recognized by this award as Cunqueiro, Méndez Ferrín, Celso Emilio Ferreiro, Carlos Casares and Manuel Rivas among the Galicians, Salvador Espriu, Mercè Rodoreda, Josep Pla, Joan Margarit and Pere Gimferrer among the Catalans, and Ramón Saizarbitoria, Bernardo Atxaga, Kirmen Uribe and Anjel Lertxundi among the Basques.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia