Researcher Francisca López Receives the National Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities

December 30, 2022

At the Dulce María Loynaz Cultural Center, the jury in charge of awarding the 2022 National Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities announced that the award was conferred unanimously to researcher Francisca López Civeira, better known as Paquita.

The jury, presided over by the distinguished intellectual Pedro Pablo Rodríguez and composed of renowned researchers Omar González, Jorge Luis Aneiros, José Luis Rodríguez, and Elier Ramírez Cañedo, after evaluating eleven proposals, decided to award the Prize to Francisca López Civeira:

For her contributions to national history through her extensive body of work published in more than ten books and dozens of essays and articles in specialized national and foreign publications; her long career as a history professor at the University of La Habana. For holding various recognitions among which stand out the National Prize for History (2008) and the Félix Varela Prize, Distinction for National Culture, the Alejo Carpentier Medal and the Frank País Order of second and first degrees.

The Prize will be awarded officially during the 31st International Book Fair of La Habana to be held between February 9th and 19th.

Founded in 1995, the National Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities is awarded annually by the Cuban Book Institute and the Superior Council of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment as testimony of public recognition to the work of those authors who enrich the legacy of this field of knowledge to the economic, social or cultural development of Cuban society, and whose contributions have been disseminated through the publication of books, periodical publications or the submission of research reports.