SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Jan. 22 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The board of directors of the Association of Journalists of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (APT) agreed to award, in its last meeting, the Patricio Estévanez award to the Tenerife journalist and writer Juan Cruz Ruiz (Puerto de la Cruz, 1948), currently attached to the presidency of the Prensa Ibérica publishing group.
The distinction was created by the APT management in order to recognize an outstanding professional career.
Previously, journalists Ricardo Acirón, José Siverio Pérez, Eliseo Izquierdo, José Antonio Pardellas, Elfidio Alonso, Jorge Bethencourt, Juan Carlos Carballo and Daniel Cerdán received it.
The award will be presented next Monday, February 5 during an event that will take place at the APT headquarters in the capital of Tenerife – Space for Journalism and Communication -.
Juan Cruz Ruiz (Puerto de la Cruz, 1948) studied Journalism and History at the University of La Laguna.
He began writing in the press at the age of thirteen, in the weekly ‘Aire Libre’ and shortly after, he successively entered the editorial staff of ‘La Tarde’ and ‘El Día’.
He was one of the founders of ‘El País’, a newspaper for which he was correspondent in London, head of Opinion and editor-in-chief of Culture.
He was also the coordinator of Grupo Prisa’s projects for 1992 and has also been director of Editorial Coordination for Grupo Prisa. Since February 2023, he has been deputy to the president of the Prensa Ibérica group.
As a novelist, he won the Benito Pérez Armas Novel Award in 1972, with ‘Chronicle of Nothingness’; Azorín Prize with ‘El Sueño de Oslo’ (1988) and has been awarded the Canary Islands 2000 Prize for Literature, the Comillas Prize for History, Biography and Memoirs 2009 for ‘Egos scrambled. A personal memory of literary life’, as well as the National Prize for Cultural Journalism in 2012.
In total, he has published around thirty books in various genres such as personal memoirs, short stories and essays, as well as several on journalism.
Since the seventies he belonged to the Association of Journalists of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, from which he left in the eighties, when he asked to join the Madrid Press Association (APM) for developing his professional activity in the capital of Spain.
As a member of the APM, which awarded him its Honor Award in 2016, he is part of the FAPE.
