Call for Literary Awards 2024
- Until May 30.
- More information here.
The Ministry of Cultures, Arts and Heritage opened a new call for Literary Awards, whose objective is to enhance creation and written and oral expressions, valuing them and making them visible as mobilizing agents of identity, memory and critical reflection. The call will be open until May 30, 2024.
Literary Awards is the expression of the commitment of the Ministry of Culture to stimulate and support creation since the enactment of the Book Law in 1993, an objective that is also addressed in the sector’s roadmap, such as the National Book Policy. Reading, Books and Libraries. Between 1993 and 2023, nearly 450 authors have been awarded, highlighting in its latest version some names such as Cynthia Rimsky, Alejandra Moffat, Malu Furche, Antonia Torres, Mario Verdugo, Constanza Michelson, Nicolás Lange, Cristóbal Jimeno and Daniela Mohor, Felipe Cussen, Sebastián Ilabaca, Gabriela Lyon and Alejandro Zambra, among others.
Literary Awards
Literary Awards include Best Literary Works, Memory Writings, Research and Humanities, these three with published and unpublished categories; Roberto Bolaño award for young literary creation; Marta Brunet to children’s and youth literature; Amster-Coré to editorial design and illustration; Graphic Narrative and Digital Publications.
The Roberto Bolaño award, created in 2006 and which since then has catapulted many authors. Along these lines, since 2021 it has special days for winners and a commitment to purchase the winning works in category B (from 18 to 25 years old). In 2023, workshops and conversation days were held for local editors for the winners in both categories, which further strengthened this award and the creation of networks for the positioning of the youngest voices in our literature.
Winners
Many of the winners of this award have subsequently been published and have started a career that has put them on the national and international book stage, such as Diego Zuñiga, winner in 2008 in the novel category, author of Camanchaca (Random House, 2012); Constanza Gutiérrez, winner in the short story category in 2011, author of the book Incompetentes (La Pollera, 2014) and Lucas Costa, winner in the poetry category in 2012, author of the book Encomienda (Cuneta, 2013), Alia Trabucco, winner of Cuento Inédito with La Resta in 2016, among others.
Important Chilean authors have been distinguished through the different awards and categories, among them: Nona Fernández (2016), Leonardo Sanhueza (2015), María José Ferrada (2014 and 2017), Mike Wilson (2014), Álvaro Bisama (2013) , Alejandro Zambra (2012 and 2007), Ramón Díaz Eterovic (2011), Jorge Montealegre (2011), Luis López-Aliaga (2011), Óscar Hahn (2007), Lina Meruane (2006), Claudio Bertoni (2005), Carlos Franz (2005), Carla Cordua (2002), Tomás Moulián (1998), German Marín (1995), Elicura Chihuailaf (1994), Ramón Griffero (1993), Faride Zerán (1993).
In addition, to start this call and celebrate book month, a free talk open to the public will be held for citizens where the writer and critic Lorena Amaro will talk with the prominent writer Alia Trabucco, about the power of writing, as is being a writer in Chile and what it means to be the winner of Literary Awards in 2016 with her work La Resta. The appointment is for Monday, April 29 at 7 p.m. in a telematic chat. Registrations to the email [email protected].