CAMAGUEY, Dec 19 (ACN) The headquarters of the Camagüey Province branch of the Hermanos Saíz Association (AHS) today hosted the first edition of the Pablo de la Torriente Brau reporting competition to celebrate the first Cuban journalist to graduate made an internationalist mission and in this context fighting to fall.
The jury of the competition, convened by the base delegations of the Union of Journalists of Cuba in the Correspondents Office of the Cuban News Agency and in the newspaper Adelante, distinguished the work Vandalism in the General Cemetery of Camagüey by Adolfo Silva Silva, a prominent professional of the pen in this delimitation.
The author, a worthy heir of Cuba’s tradition of reporting, confirms in his work the urgent need to tell journalism in an excellent text, with all the nuances, opinions, historical and current research, that provides information while being an effective complaint.
In the presence of Víctor Casaus, director of the Brewing Center Pablo de la Torriente, the Pablo in Memory round table preceded the award ceremony, which commemorated the work of the 35-year-old, consistent with his combative coverage of the city on the Insel, was one of more than a thousand Cubans who joined the International Brigades to fight against fascism in Spain.
As part of the activities of the XVI Young Creators Fair that started today in Camagüey, Pablo de la Torriente Brau was awarded the Maestro de Juventudes Award post mortem, which represents the highest recognition that the AHS gives to the creative work and pedagogical work of outstanding culture – and thinkers.
In his writing career, which has become one of the most important traces in the history of journalism in Cuba, there are Presidio Modelo, Realengo 18, 105 días preso and Nuevitas, among other anthological texts. The broken sack, written through, is one of the profession’s attributes as a modern literary genre.
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Pablo, also a storyteller, poet, screenwriter and craftsman, incorporated into his professional practice expressions of currents that many years later were called literary journalism, new journalism and investigative journalism, with which he confirmed his avant-garde creative development.