Rossi has received with great gratitude and great joy the Premio Cervantes 2021, the highest award for Hispanic literature.
The Uruguayan Cristina Peri Rossi has received with great gratitude and great joy the Cervantes Prize 2021, the highest award in Hispanic literature, which has become the best gift for the writer for her 80th birthday this Friday, according to her editor José Ángel Zapatero.
“It is a well deserved recognition”, said to Efe Zapatero, who as soon as he heard the news called her to congratulate her, although he has not been able to speak with her directly because “She is overwhelmed and cannot cope with the many journalists who are trying to talk to her.”
“She is very happy, very excited and super happy with the award”, have been transmitted to him from his closest environment.
“In addition, on the 12th it turns 80 and there is no better gift than this well-deserved recognition”added Jose Angel Zapatero, who published his latest work, La Insumisa, last year with the Lesscuarto label.
Zapatero assured that Cristina Peri Rossi it is “An excellent storyteller and a magnificent storyteller” and regretted that it took so long to recognize the worth of this Hispanic American boom and post-boom woman, author of Crazy people’s nave, his best known, and contemporary work of a generation of men like Mario Vargas Llosa, Gabriel García Márquez or Julio Cortázar.
“I believe that it has not had the relevance that it should have had at the time, just for being a woman. But better late than never “said Zapatero, who has had “the pride” of publishing two novels, two short stories, two collections of poems and an essay by Peri Rossi, with his Cálamo and Menoscuarto publishing labels.
“For me, she is one of the best narrators in Spanish speaking”said Zapatero, who has been grateful for “having had the privilege” of publishing part of the work of this writer, who lives in the Spanish city of Barcelona and that today she has become the sixth woman to receive the highest award in Hispanic literature.
“Somehow, something touches us from Cervantes, we are very happy because we have opted for it”, said the editor, who considers La Insumisa -an autobiographical novel in which he travels his childhood and youth with a certain strangeness towards the world that he has lived and does not understand- as one of the best books by Peri Rossi, “For the humor, irony and tenderness that characterize it.”
In addition, Lesscuarto has edited the stories Private rooms and The wrong loves and two novelsEverything that I couldn’t tell you and The insubordinate) and in Cálamo two books of poetry, The replicants and The night and its artifice and the essay Julio Cortázar and Cris about his personal relationship with the writer in Barcelona and Paris.
“We are very happy”, insisted the editor, who conveyed his congratulations to the Uruguayan writer, who is going through a delicate moment of health and is currently working on a storybook.
“It is a delight to talk to her, because of how cultured she is, the amount of reading she has, her knowledge of the publishing world because she was an editor and because she is a magnificent storyteller and a magnificent person”Zapatero highlighted. (I)
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