Madrid.- Cuba joined the celebration of the 400 years of the second part of Don Quixote in the celebration organized by El Bonillo, a municipality from La Mancha mentioned in the work by Miguel de Cervantes.
Through video-conference, Cuban trova singer Hector Luis de Posada participated in the gala, presided over by mayor Juan Gil, in which the winner of a contest on Ibero-American tale convened on occasion of the date were announced.
About 60 tales from storytellers of Spain, Cuba, Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Uruguay, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Honduras and Peru, were received in the competition, organized to demand that municipality from the province of Albacete as the Cervantine nation.
The winners were "Don Quijote en El Bonillo: Informe del pliego hallado en el convento de las Trinitarias," by Hector Navarro (Valencia); "Epistola para una complicidad," by Manuel Laespada (Ciudad Real), and "Tragedia cervantina," by Fernando Martinez (Almeria).
Cultural counselor Natasha Diaz Argüelles, representing the Cuban embassy in Spain, stated that the anniversary of the work is a cultural event of universal transcendence due to its values and dimension of the author.
Source: PL
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