HAVANA, Cuba. Cuban poet Fina Garcia Marruz will receive next Friday the 2009 Latinidad (Latin Identity) Award for promoting the best ethical values of Greco-Latin cultural and identity heritage.
According to Juventud Rebelde news daily, this award, granted every year in all the countries that belong to the Latin Union, will be presented to the outstanding Cuban intellectual during a ceremony in Havana to mark the Day of Latin Identity on May 15th.
‘The greatest Spanish-speaking female poet alive’, as she was described by Roberto Fernandez Retamar, President of the Havana-based Casa de las Americas cultural center, has also received important awards such as the Pablo Neruda Iberoamerican Poetry Award in 2007 and the Cuban National Literature Award in 1990, among many others.
Other Cuban intellectuals who have received the Latin Identity Award include Rosario Novoa, Luisa Campuzano, Graziella Pogolotti, Havana Historian Eusebio Leal, Cintio Vitier, Monsignor Carlos Manuel de Céspedes and Roberto Fernández Retamar.
The Latin Union is comprised of nearly 40 countries from different continents.
(Entregarán Premio de la Latinidad a Fina García Marruz)
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