The jury of the 41st edition of the literary contest decided, unanimously, to award “Los apuntes de Humboldt”, by Daniel Montoya Álvarez, among the almost a thousand works presented, highlighting that this represents “an opening to the world, to life itself itself, to nature as a whole, as a whole, to the fact of being in the world and in its constant changes ”.
Colombian Daniel Montoya Álvarez received the Juan Ramón Jiménez Ibero-American Poetry Prize for his collection of poems “Los apuntes de Humboldt”, endowed with 12,000 euros (more than $ 14,500 at current exchange rates) and the edition of the work. It is “a very great honor to be part of this award that great poets have received. It is wonderful, I am very happy, “said Montoya by videoconference, thanking the award.
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The writer explained that with his book “he tries to get closer to what was the thought of the German biologist Alexander von Humboldt, who was concerned about two things: the relationship of human beings with nature and social problems.” He pointed out that this is a constant in all his poetic work: “There are poems in which the registers are very different, I like to play with humor, irony or metal literature, but I also really like everything that has to do with that contemplative poetry that has sometimes helped me to find meaning in my life ”.
During the event, Gustavo Cuéllar, mayor of Moguer (birthplace of the Spanish Nobel Prize winner for Literature Juan Ramón Jiménez), highlighted from the winning collection of poems “both its great literary quality and its theme committed to the defense of nature and the need to promote a social thought, two very present poetic concepts always in the work of Juan Ramón ”. Also the vice-president of the Diputación de Huelva (provincial government body), Juan Antonio García, stressed that “the authors awarded the Juan Ramón in these four decades already constitute a substantial part of contemporary poetry written in Spanish of the last forty years ”.
The jury of the 41st edition of the literary contest decided, unanimously, to award “Los apuntes de Humboldt” among the almost a thousand works presented, highlighting that this supposes “an opening to the world, to life itself, to nature as together, as a whole, to the fact of being in the world and in its constant changes ”.
