Global InformationSantiago Municipal Literature Award information
| Santiago Municipal Literature Award | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Different literary genres |
| Sponsored by | Municipality of Santiago |
| Date | 5 February 1934 |
| Country | Chile |
| Website | http://www.santiagocultura.cl/premios-municipales/  |
The Santiago Municipal Literature Award (Spanish: Premio Municipal de Literatura de Santiago) is one of the oldest and most important literary awards in Chile[1] Created in 1934 by the municipality of Santiago, its first edition awarded the categories of novel, poetry and theater (later to be renamed as dramaturgy).[2] Two categories were added soon after – essay, in 1941, and short story, in 1954 – and four other more recently, in 2013 – children's and young adult literature, referential (memoirs, chronicles, diaries, letters, biographies, and also compilations and anthologies),[3] journalistic research and editing. In 2014 it was decided to start awarding children's and young adult literature separately, making it a total of ten categories.
The prizes for the winners of each category consist of a sum of money – CLP$2,000,000 (US$2,635) in 2016 – and a diploma. The works published in first edition the year prior to the contest may be submitted (in dramaturgy, the works released the year before the contest may also be submitted); in each genre, a jury selects three finalists from which it subsequently chooses the winner.[3]
This award has undergone some interruptions during its history – It was not granted during the first three years of the dictatorship, and restored in 1976 under the administration of Mayor Patricio Mekis.[4] In 1985, Mayor Carlos Bombal revoked the jury's decision to award Jaime Miranda's Regreso sin causa[5] and ordered the suspension of the contest,[6] being finally restored in 1988 by Mayor Máximo Honorato.
- ^ Ceball, Alex (28 January 2016). "La bofetada de Diego Alfaro Palma: Superó a Bertoni y a Nicanor en premio Municipal de Poesía" [The Slap of Diego Alfaro Palma: He Beat Bertoni and Nicanor for the Municipal Poetry Prize]. El Mostrador (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 January 2018.
- ^ Szmulewicz, Efraín, ed. (1984). "Premio Municipal de Literatura de Santiago" [Santiago Municipal Literature Award]. Diccionario de la Literatura Chilena [Dictionary of Chilean Literature] (in Spanish). Andrés Bello. p. 454. Retrieved 16 January 2018 – via Google Books.
- ^ a b "Premio Municipal de Literatura 2016" [Municipal Literature Award 2016] (PDF) (in Spanish). Municipality of Santiago. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 November 2016. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
- ^ Jaque, Nelly Hernandez, ed. (2 September 1982). "Reglamento Nº 4" [Regulation No. 4]. Normativa Municipal Vigente Tomo I [Current Municipal Regulations Volume I] (in Spanish). Editorial Jurídica de Chile. p. 747. Retrieved 16 January 2018 – via Google Books.
- ^ Subercaseaux, Bernardo (2006). "La cultura en los gobiernos de la Concertación" [Culture in the Concertación Governments] (PDF). Revista Universum (in Spanish). 1 (21). University of Talca. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 December 2016. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
- ^ Muñoz, Arturo Alejandro (17 August 2012). "El teatro durante la dictadura" [The Theater During the Dictatorship] (in Spanish). Movimiento Generación 80. Retrieved 16 January 2018.