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Letras en la Mar returns for the ninth time, the most important literary event in Mexico. It will take place from April 3 to 6. The International Meeting of Poets and Art will have the participation of poets of international stature.
After 8 consecutive years, Letras en la Mar will pay tribute to Alberto Ruy-Sanchez Lacy. The writer, National Award for Sciences and Arts in Linguistics and Literature (2017) and Xavier Villaurrutia Award (1987), will formally open the event on April 3 at 8:00 p.m., at the Aquiles Serdán open-air theater in Los Arches of the Malecon.
Ruy-Sanchez Lacy, in Letras en la Mar, was preceded by great poets such as José Emilio Pacheco, Juan Gelman, Emilio Coco, Heraclio Zepeda, Juan Manuel Roca, Coral Bracho, Hugo Gutiérrez Vega, Fernando del Paso, Raúl Renán, Francisco Hernández.
The meeting of humanists integrates into its programming a variety of free public activities around literature. There will be gatherings and poetic recitals, tributes, book presentations, poetry readings aloud, workshops and conversations.
Puerto Vallarta, poetic capital of America
The 2019 edition will feature four great recitals with the poets:
- Jean Portante, from Luxembourg.
- Graham Buchan, from England.
- Antonio Rivero Taravillo, Rafaela Hamen, Balbina Prior, from Spain.
- Diti Ronen, from Israel.
- Sarah Clancy, from Ireland.
- Bernard Pozier, from Quebec and Dante Medina, Ángel Ortuño, Gustavo Iñiguez, Sayuri Sánchez, and Melisa Niño, from Mexico.
The tribute to the poetic work is for the Mexican writer and poet Dante Medina. In addition, in the international year of mother tongues, the Mayan poet Sol Ceh Moo will be present. He will participate in a dialogue table and recital of his work.
It will be the activities of this meeting that year after year make Puerto Vallarta the poetic capital of America.
With a vast program for the training of audiences in reading and poetry, the traditional creative writing workshops will be given. They will have different venues in the town as a stage, with poets such as Antonio Rivero (Spain), Bernard Pozier (Quebec) and a children's workshop with Roberto Aztlán from INBAL.
The meeting of humanists is a legacy of the poet Hugo Gutiérrez Vega. It was inaugurated in the spring of 2011 by the writers Juan Gelman, Fernando del Paso and Marco Antonio Campos. The objective is to disseminate poetry and train audiences, since the stages are open forums of the port.
Alberto Ruy Sánchez will be honored in Puerto Vallarta
Alberto Ruy Sánchez is originally from Mexico City. He was born in 1951. He has published about twenty titles, including the essays Praise of insomnia, With literature in the body and An introduction to Octavio Paz. Also the poems of To say is to wish and The eroticized forest. In the same way, he wrote the cycle of experimental books on desire, Quinteto de Mogador, where poetry and essays come together in fictional and documentary stories.
His work has been translated into a dozen languages and has received more than twenty national and international awards: in Saint Petersburg, Montauban, Chicago, Louisville and Zaragoza, among others. The first, together with Bárbara Jacobs, was that of Xavier Villaurrutia in 1987. The National Prize for Sciences and Arts in Linguistics and Literature (2017), the Prize of the Poestate Poetry Festival 2015, in Lugano, Switzerland, shared with Elsa Cross.
He currently co-directs the publishing house Artes de México with Margarita de Orellana.
In this edition, Alberto Ruy-Sánchez Lacy will receive the “Silver Snail” award. Undoubtedly a literary event of international stature, which will delight the ears of Mexicans and foreigners.
