National Poetry Award (Colombia)

National Poetry Award
Awarded forWork of poetry by a Colombian citizen
Sponsored by
CountryColombia
RewardCol$60 million

The National Poetry Award (Spanish: Premio Nacional de Poesía) is an honor presented by Colombia's Ministry of Culture. In its current format, it is given biennially, in alternating years with the National Novel Award. It rewards excellence in poetic production by a Colombian citizen, living in the country or abroad, for a Spanish-language work published in the preceding two years. It includes a monetary prize of 60 million Colombian pesos (16,027 United States dollars).[1]

Prior to 1997, it was presented by the Colombian Institute of Culture.[2]

List of winners

  • 1985 – Jotamario Arbeláez, for La casa de la memoria[3]
  • 1993 – Rómulo Bustos, for En el traspatio del cielo[2]
  • 1994 – Piedad Bonnett, for El hilo de los días[4]
  • 2001 – Juan Felipe Robledo, for La música de las horas[5]
  • 2004 – Juan Manuel Roca, for Las hipótesis de nadie[6]
  • 2010 – Martha Carolina Dávila, for Como las catedrales[1]
  • 2013 – Horacio Benavides Zúñiga, for La Serena Hierba[1]
  • 2015 – Nelson Romero Guzmán, for Música lenta[7]
  • 2017 – Darío Jaramillo Agudelo, for El cuerpo y otra cosa[8]
  • 2019 – Rómulo Bustos, for De moscas y de ángeles[2]
  • 2021 – Eliana Hernández Pachón, for La mata[9]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "MinCultura lanzó el Premio Nacional de Poesía 2017" [Ministry of Culture Launches the 2017 National Poetry Award] (in Spanish). Ministry of Culture. 2 March 2017. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
  2. 1 2 3 "Rómulo Bustos gana el Premio Nacional de Poesía 2019". El Heraldo (in Spanish). 4 October 2019. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
  3. ↑ "Homenaje a Jotamario Arbeláez en el marco de la Exposición 2020 en El Solar". Vanguardia (in Spanish). 30 January 2020. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
  4. ↑ Rodríguez, Adriana del Pilar (July–December 2007). "Piedad Bonnett: una poética de lo cotidiano". Estudios de Literatura Colombiana (in Spanish) (21): 128. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
  5. ↑ Doce años de historia (PDF) (in Spanish). Ministry of Culture. October 2009. p. 111. ISBN 9789588250762. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
  6. ↑ "Ganador por Las hipótesis de nadie". El Tiempo (in Spanish). 6 October 2004. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
  7. ↑ "Nelson Romero, ganador del Premio Nacional de Poesía". El Colombiano (in Spanish). 18 August 2015. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
  8. ↑ "Darío Jaramillo Agudelo es el nuevo Premio Nacional de Poesía". Semana (in Spanish). 15 September 2017. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
  9. ↑ "'La Mata' de Eliana Hernández ganó el Premio Nacional de Poesía" (in Spanish). HJCK. 10 December 2021. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
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