A Language and Literature teacher from Lima (Peru), Omar Gonzalo Domínguez, has won the first prize in the Ángel Guerra Cabrera Short Novel Contest. The decision was announced this Thursday and Gonzalo will receive 3,000 euros and the publication of 200 copies of his novel, whose title is 'The Healer'. Of this figure, 50 will go to the City Council for the endowment of municipal libraries. Of the 419 novels submitted, the finalists were: 'Someone Else's Dream'; 'To Live Again'; 'Poor Fortune, Blind Fortune'; and 'Magic Sign'.
The mayor of Teguise, Oswaldo Betancort, and the councilor of Archives and Libraries, Sara Bermúdez, were in charge of calling the winner and transmitting the decision of this contest that Teguise has rescued in "honor of the writer, poet and novelist from Teguise José Betancort Cabrera (1874-1950), whose pseudonym is Ángel Guerra", they highlight from the consistory.
"This contest adds to the literary calls that Teguise promotes from the Libraries area", Sara Bermúdez pointed out, recalling that "the deadline for receiving works for another of the municipality's major contests that bears the name of our illustrious Leandro Perdomo Spínola is already open", says Betancort.
The jury of the contest was formed by "Mariano José de León Perdomo, Bachelor of Law and Administration official with National Qualification; Miriam Dolores Hernández Perdomo, Bachelor of Hispanic Philology and teacher; Esaú Pérez Caraballo, Bachelor of Philology and professor of Spanish Language and Literature; María Ángeles Fuentes Dorta, Bachelor of English Philology and Secondary teacher, specializing in English; Santiago Alfredo Gil García, Bachelor of Information Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid and writer", concludes the Teguise City Council.
