Will take place in Camagüey National Symposium "Homage to Nicolás Guillén"

Camagüey. The II National Symposium “Homage to Nicolás Guillén” the coming year will be developed in this city , where was born and began to exercise the intellectual personality of Camagüey his poetic and journalistic work.

The convocation of the event distinguished the activities for the 21 years of the death of the National Poet of Cuba, made today in the Center of Studies that takes the bard's name.

Programmed to be made from the July 14 to 17 , 2011, will propitiate the exchange among investigators, specialists, professors, writers and studious, as well as of national personalities and foreigners linked to the life and the sublime intellectual's work.

The forum will have as central thematic the anniversary 60 of the “ Chose Jesus Menéndez” and the 80 of the poemary “Sóngoro cosongo”, to link in the author's works the treatment of the personalities and the relationship of the lyrical one with the music.

Today's commemoration included, also, the presentation of several relative books to the poet, as “Nicolás Guillén in Mexico”, of Humberto Rodríguez Manso.

Born on July 10,1902, Guillén died on July 16, 1989, when he was member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) and president founder of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba. (AIN).