Armando Almánzar: National award of literature 2012

The phone for little and he falls from the hand to don Armando Almánzar when he learned that Jose Luis Corripio Estrada wanted to communicate with him yesterday morning. "I knew that he was not me calling to ask me for the movie that I saw yesterday," said the writer with humor characteristic of their tales.

The reason for the call? Inform him that he had been chosen as the winner of the national prize of literature 2012.

Is the recognition to his 45 years of literary work, which he retribuirá the sum of RD$ 1,000,000, a scroll of special recognition, and join the select group of which only 22 Dominicans are part.

The first tales of Almánzar came in 1965, and thereafter has created great stories that are the most authentic reflection of the Dominican idiosyncrasy. Today, when a jury made up of the rectors of leading universities in the country, the Ministry of culture and the executive director of u000athe Fundación Corripio recognized, the author of "Tales in short film" defines news as "a great joy." "Of course, a very strong emotion".

Recognition to film critic is based on his work, including his film criticism, reason said to LISTÍN DIARIO, makes a special distinction. In addition, Almánzar is three times winner of the Premio Nacional de Cuentos.

At the ceremony where it was announced the winner, Jose Luis Corripio Estrada, President of the Foundation Corripio, said that the institution believes that he has a debt of gratitude with the Dominican people therefore seek to collaborate with an act of justice.

"Fortunately still be many deserving of that prize values in the Dominican Republic and in a timely manner the merits will be recognizing," said Corripio Estrada.

The winners of the recognition from the year 2000 to date are: Jeannette Miller, u000ain 2011; Matthew Morrison, in 2010; José Alcántara Almánzar, in 2009; Bruno Rosario Candelier, in 2008; Diógenes Céspedes, in 2007; María Ugarte received in 2006; Diogenes Valdez, in 2005; Andrés l. Mateo in 2004; Franklin Dominguez, in 2003; Hilma Contreras, 2002; Carlos Esteban Deive, 2001; and Víctor Villegas, in the year 2000.

About the author
Armando Almánzar was born on May 22, 1935, and is known as storyteller, film critic and journalist. His film criticism are published every Saturday in LISTÍN DIARIO. It is recognized as a representative of the generation of the 60 figure. He was part of the literary group the fist, founded in 1966.

In what refers to the literature, is in 1966 when ventured for the first time to participate in the first Dominican tales contest organized by the cultural society the mask, which was the seed of what is today home of theatre. In the contest, which had among its u000asworn to the laureate Juan Bosch, Almánzar won the first prize Ex aequo with Abel Fernández Mejía and Miguel Alfonseca, with his short story "El Gato", one of the more included Dominican stories in the history of our letters, both in national anthologies as foreign, appearing even a German translation in a literary magazine of that European nation. In that same competition also won a mention with his short story "Limit".

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Biography of A writer is
in 1967 when it appears the first of his books, "Limit", published by Alpha & Omega, whose first edition was sold out. Then became a it second, in 1979, also exhausted.

In the 1970s the prestigious American publisher Harper´s & Row asked Dominican writers of short stories to send their works to this editor to edit a book on Latin American poets, and two of his short stories were accepted and paid for. Unfortunately, the u000a"Anthology of the story Latinoamericano Contemporáneo" book that was edited, was never circulated in the country. In 1969, the Editorial Monte Avila, of Venezuela, published "Narrators Dominicans", which includes two tales Almánzar, "El Gato" and "Triad", along with tales of fundamental authors of literature Dominican like Bosch, Hilma Contreras, Virgilio Grullón Díaz, Iván García, Carlos Marcio Veloz Maggiolo and others.

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