Delfín Prats Awarded the 2022 National Prize for Literature

December 29, 2022

On the morning of this Thursday, December 29th, at the Dulce María Loynaz Cultural Center, the jury in charge of awarding the 2022 National Prize for Literature announced that the most important award in Cuban letters was conferred unanimously upon Holguín-born writer Delfín Prats.

The jury was presided over by renowned writer and intellectual Abel Prieto Jiménez and comprised writer Julio Travieso, 2021 National Prize for Literature recipient; writer and editor Rigoberto Rodríguez Entenza; writer and director of the Cuban Book Observatory, Enrique Pérez Díaz; and researcher and literary critic Cira Romero.

The Prize will be officially presented during the 31st International Book Fair of Havana, to be held between February 9th and 19th.

Founded in 1982 by the Ministry of Culture, the National Prize for Literature, awarded annually by the Cuban Book Institute, is the most important award in Cuban letters and bears witness to public recognition of the work of those writers who have enriched the legacy of Cuban culture in general and its literature in particular with the contribution of a transcendent literary work.