• Submitted by: Luis Manuel Mazorra
• Culture and Traditions
• 02 / 24 / 2012

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One figure who is dedicated to the International Book Fair in Cuba is a Cuban historian and bibliographer Lapique Zoila, who was honored last Wednesday at Cienfuegos making the main distinction worthy of honor in the province.

Mairelys Pernia, president of the territorial government, the writer gave the command that refers to the nickname of Pearl of the South, as known in the Island the only city founded by French settlers in Latin America, and whose historic center classified as Cultural Heritage Site.

With visible signs of emotion Lapique, 80, thanked the distinction, which joined the creators Adrian Rumbaut, James Hermes Rafael Caceres, with individual works of art.

Lapique, who shares the honor of issue 21 of the Fair with the essayist Ambrosio Fornet, said he aims to take forward a number of research projects, such as Cuban cigar brands throughout its history and the humorous press of the eighteenth and nineteenth .

The writer Roberto Sotolongo said his words of praise to the author of Out of the stone his contributions to music history, lithography, the press and the sugar industry in the Greater Antilles, primarily in the nineteenth century and as its simplicity and sense of duty to the scientific work.

During the ceremony held at the Provincial Library historian Oscar Zanetti, National Social Sciences Award as Lapique Becali, presented the book Cienfuegos, refineries, mills and plants, which she wrote together with Orlando S. Arias.

He was also placed before the public lost no time Chronicles, a book of the Social Sciences Publishing House which compiles 14 trials of the author herself, basically referring to the graphic arts, music and nineteenth-century Cuban press.

After its chapter capital, last week, the Cuban Book Fair runs until Sunday in the eight provinces of western and central islands.