Within the framework of the XXXIII Havana International Book Fair (FILH in the Spanish acronym), the 2025 Calendar Awards were presented, the highest award conferred by the Hermanos Saíz Association (AHS) in literature.
The writer Ariel Fonseca, member of the jury in the Narrative genre, announced the winner in this section after reading the minutes. Recognition was given to Erian Peña Pupo, with That Summer at Woodstock, and the mentions went to Raúl Leyva Pupo with his proposal A gift for Mapplethorpe and Millimetric Perfection, by Roberto Javier González Rodríguez.
The Calendar Prize in Poetry went to Landscape Reconstruction, by Tomás Escobar Ávila, who, in the words of Méndez, inserted a special lyrical fluidity in the Cuban environment in a peculiar way, as a kind of restoration of ceramic pieces.
For the young Taimí Diéguez Mallo, it was the Calendar in the Theater category for the play Apples, Angel Wings which, according to Marilyn Garbey, theater scientist and member of the jury, stands out for the cleanliness of the language used and for the link with events of singular importance in the history of Cuba, due to a meticulous research process.
José Miguel Sánchez Gómez, known as Yoss, writer and member of the jury in the Science Fiction category, announced that Los infortunados de estos tiempos, authored by Daryl Ortega López, won the award in that section, while Armando Antonio Ochoa obtained the mention for Chimeras.
Constructing the Man: Images of Masculinity, by Alejandro M. Fernández, deserved the award in Essay, while Anabel Amil Portal was distinguished in that section for Writing from the Margins.
Five days with Agatha, by David Martínez Balsa, was the award-winning work in the Children’s and Youth category.
This Wednesday, the award-winning texts in 2024 were also presented, published in physical format, among them, The Current Event of the Revolution, by Iramís Rosique (Essay); The Boy with Questions, by Lioneski Buquet (Children and Youth); Things that burn on the grass, by Wilfredo Roba (Poetry); Alexa’s Library, by Nathaly Hernández, and Versions of the Translator, by Robert Báez (Narrative).
The 2025 Calendar Awards ceremony was a tribute to the singer-songwriter Eduardo Sosa and the writer and professor Francisco López Sacha, who recently died.
In attendance were Alpidio Alonso Grau, Minister of Culture; Juan Rodríguez Cabrera, president of the Cuban Book Institute and the FILH Organizing Committee; Yaniel Cobo, member of the National Bureau of the Union of Young Communists, and Yasel Toledo Garnache, national president of the AHS, as well as vice presidents of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba.
With information from the Cuban News Agency/ Translated by Radio Angulo
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