SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Nov. 16 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The work entitled ‘MAO (Letter to a father)’, by the Gran Canaria writer Jorge Ortiz Robla, has been awarded the 2021 Pedro García Cabrera Poetry Prize, a contest that has been held since 1968 in the aforementioned literary field, as announced by the Foundation CajaCanarias.
Endowed with 3,000 euros and the publication of the volume, a total of 74 works have been submitted to the competition in this edition of the Prize. The jury that has awarded the award for this edition has been made up of Sabas Martín, Rosario Valcárcel and Javier Cabrera.
‘MAO (Letter to a Father)’ is a sincere tribute to the author’s father, Manuel Ángel Ortiz, who died suddenly at the end of 2020, through poetic construction, with verses that establish a way of conversing with his absence, of understand that lack also creates an immaterial volume that has to be filled with memories, feelings and words. The work, in this way, is a way of assimilating that we are everything that we are leaving behind, the memory of faces that, like a language, can take precedence over hope.
Jorge Ortiz Robla (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 1980) is a restorer of Cultural Assets and currently resides in Catarroja (Valencia). He has published the poems Restauro [Tratado de Conservación] The Language of Light / A linguagem gives light. Bilingual Edition (Gato Bravo editora, Portugal 2018), DOMA (Lastura, 2018), The symmetry of insects (Lastura, 3rd Edition 2016) and Presbyopia (Baile del Sol, 2016).
Winner and finalist in multiple poetry, oral poetry and videopoetry contests, Jorge Ortiz is co-director of Crátera Editores and Crátera de Crítica y Poesía Contemporánea magazine. Part of his work has been translated into Portuguese, Catalan and Romanian.
