The historian and essay writer Pedro Álvarez Tabío won in Havana the 2007 National Edition Award winner
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- 01 / 24 / 2008
The historian and essay writer Pedro Álvarez Tabío won in Havana the 2007 National Edition Award winner, a price he will receive during the XVII Havana International Book Fair.
According to the jury Álvarez Tabío, who is also the director of the Publication Office of the State Council has a vast publishing practice and among his most important works is the edition of Cien horas con Fidel (Hundred Hours with Fidel), written by the Spanish - French journalist Ignacio Ramonet.
The tribunal analyzed the nominations to this award for the lifes work and emphasized in the vital example of the award winner for generations of editors a well as his contributions to the Cuban culture in that field.
The jury was made by the also award winner in previous years Esteban Llorach, Desiderio Navarro and Juan Valdés Montero, by the writer Edel Morales and was chaired by the vice - president of the Cuban Book Institute, Alberto Marrero.
Besides his work as an editor and as a compiler of the Cuban revolutionary history, Álvarez Tabío has written several books, among them La conquista de la esperanza (The conquer of a hope) and Celia, ensayo para una biografía (Celia, rehearsal of a biography) considered a documented volume.
Since it was created at beginnings of this century, the National Edition Award is very appreciated by hundred of creators who assume this meticulous and almost anonymous job of revising, exchanging, enriching and contributing with the highest possible quality to every book.
(Cubarte)
According to the jury Álvarez Tabío, who is also the director of the Publication Office of the State Council has a vast publishing practice and among his most important works is the edition of Cien horas con Fidel (Hundred Hours with Fidel), written by the Spanish - French journalist Ignacio Ramonet.
The tribunal analyzed the nominations to this award for the lifes work and emphasized in the vital example of the award winner for generations of editors a well as his contributions to the Cuban culture in that field.
The jury was made by the also award winner in previous years Esteban Llorach, Desiderio Navarro and Juan Valdés Montero, by the writer Edel Morales and was chaired by the vice - president of the Cuban Book Institute, Alberto Marrero.
Besides his work as an editor and as a compiler of the Cuban revolutionary history, Álvarez Tabío has written several books, among them La conquista de la esperanza (The conquer of a hope) and Celia, ensayo para una biografía (Celia, rehearsal of a biography) considered a documented volume.
Since it was created at beginnings of this century, the National Edition Award is very appreciated by hundred of creators who assume this meticulous and almost anonymous job of revising, exchanging, enriching and contributing with the highest possible quality to every book.
(Cubarte)
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