Tenth Granada International Poetry Festival is announced

Róger Solórzano Canales | Nov 6, 2013

“¡Torres de Dios!¡Poetas!¡Pararrayos celestes...”, is the slogan of the 10th edition of the Granada International Poetry Festival, which details were announced today at a press conference. Around 122 poets from different countries around the world, and 35 nicaraguan poets will participate from February 16th to the 22nd of 2014 at the festival, that represent one of the most emblematic cultural proposal having a wide influence in the world.

Just like in the past editions, the festival will feature various activities in Granada and other places for over a week, in which there will be discussions, readings, lectures, concerts, open mic sessions and a rich exchange among participants, and between the public. Also, there will be a book fair, craft fair and carnival parades and colorful folkloric groups from all over the country, which will perform around the central streets of Granada next to "poetamóvil", where guest poets will read in various languages.

The Festivla will have concerts of nicaraguan musicians and well known bands, like the famous Hernaldo Zúniga, Luis Enrique Mejía Godoy, Camerata Bach, Perrozompopo and La Cuneta Son Machín, said Gloria Gabuardi, secretary of the festival. A new activity, a Chilndrens’s Poetry Festival will be developed and also an open mic session for Elder Poets from CLAM.

Tribute to Ruben Dario

The phrase that constitute the slogan is the title of the first strophe of a famous poem by written by Rubén Darío (1867-1916), whose wide influence in the world of the spanish literature in South and Central America, and Spain earned him the title of one of the founders of modernism. Dario is the honoree of the festival of this year, as it was released after the conclusion of the festival this year.

Among the activities, there will be a photography exposition of the poet, a presentation of his books, a lecture entitled "Transatlantic Darío" and a panel discussion named "Ruben Dario’s Validy in XXI century".

León de la Torre, Spain's ambassador and honorary president of the festival, said that the tribute will also include a digital sample of 150 Dario documents that are part of the collection of 5000 documents from the Spanish stage of Darius, which were donated by his wife at the Complutense University of Madrid.

They ask for suppport

Francisco de Asis Fernandez, founding president of the festival, called on national authorities, private companies, chambers of commerce, embassies and the public in general to support the development of this event, whose logistics involves the use of a lot of resources and that have not been completed despite sponsorship they have had from companies and embassies.

"We invite everyone to make a national and international campaing to save the festival, by sending a contribution to the account number 101 201 390 at Bancentro" said Fernandez.

Preliminary list of invited poets (current as of September 2013):

América Del Sur / South America

Argentina
Jorge Alejandro Boccanera
Rodrigo Caresani

Bolivia
Rubén Vargas
Paura Rodríguez

Brasil / Brazil
Antonio Miranda
Renata Bomfim

Chile
Jorge Edwards ¨PREMIO Cervantes¨
Jaime Luis Huenún Villa
Rosabetty Muñoz
Juan Cameron

Colombia
Elkin Restrepo
Harold Alvarado Tenorio

Ecuador
Juan Carlos Miranda Ponce

Paraguay
Jorge Canese

Perú / Peru
Arturo Corcuera
Marcos Marto

Uruguay
Jorge Arbeleche
Silvia Guerra

Venezuela
William Osuna
Gustavo Pereira

América Del Norte / North America

Canadá / Canada
Albert F. Moritz
Gastón Bellemare

Estados Unidos / United States
C.K. Willams ¨PREMIO Pulitzer / Pulitzer Prize¨
Rita Dove ¨PREMIO Pulitzer / Pulitzer Prize¨
Ana Castillo
Laurel Nakanishi

México / Mexico
Homero Aridjis
Juan Bañuelos
Hugo Gutiérrez Vega

América Central / Central America

Costa Rica
José Maria Zonta
Osvaldo Sauma
Rodolfo Dada
Shirley Campbell
Paola Valverde
Cristopher Montero Corrales

El Salvador
Alfonso Fajardo
Alfonso Kijadurías
Beatriz Marques
Carmen González Huguet
David Escobar Galindo
Mario Noel Rodríguez

Guatemala
Julio Serrano
Paolo A. Guinea Ovalle

Honduras
Dennis Ávila
José Luis Quezada
Mayra Oyuela
Fabricio Estrada

Panamá / Panama
Manuel Orestes Nieto
Eyra Harbar
Martin Ricardo Testa Garibaldo
Porfirio Salazar

Caribe / Caribbean

Cuba
Rodolfo Häsler
Alex Fleites
Alex Pausides
Angel Cuadra

Haití / Haiti
M. Bonel Auguste

Isla San Martin / Saint Martin
Lasana M. Sekou

Jamaica
Malachi Smith

Puerto Rico / Puerto Rico
Naomi Ayala
Jorge Luis Castillo
Pedro Ávila

República Dominicana / Dominican Republic
Rei Berroa

Europa / Europe

Albania
Mirela Sula

Alemania / Germany
Gerhard Falkner

Austria
Barbara Hundegger

Bélgica / Belgium
Carl Norac

Bosnia
Sefik Fiko Daupovic

Bulgaria
Tsvetanka Elénkova
Kiril Kadiiski

Chipre / Cyprus
Iasonas Stavrakis

Croacia / Croatia
Sonja Manojlovic

Dinamarca / Denmark
Morten Sondergaard

Escocia / Scotland
Jane Mckie

Eslovenia / Slovenia
Barbara Korun
Miklavž Komelj

España / Spain
Luis Eduardo Aute
Juana Castro
Alfredo Perez Alencart
Rocío Oviedo Pérez De Tudela
Anunciada Fernández De Córdova
Pedro Enríquez
Jose Luis Reina Palazon

Estonia
Triin Soomets
Doris Kareva

Finlandia / Finland
Merja Virolainen

Francia / France
Claude Adelen
Francis Combis

Gales / Wales
Patrick Mcguinness

Grecia / Greece
Maria Laina

Holanda - Países Bajos / Netherlands
Maria Barna

Hungría /HUNGARY
Anna Szabo

Irlanda / Ireland
Diarmuid Johnson

Italia / Italy
Martha Canfield
Daniela Marcheschi
Fabrizio Dall'aglio

Letonia / Latvia
Edvīns Struka (EDVĪNS Raups)
Leons Briedis Leons Briedis

Macedonia
Igor Isakovski

Malta
Adrian Grima

Noruega / Norway
Gunnar Wærness

Portugal
Ana Luisa Amaral

Reino Unido / United Kingdom
Jonathan Davidson

Rumania / Romania
Valeriu Stancu

Rusia / Russia
Olga Khokhlova
Dmitry Legeza
Ilya Kaminsky
Sergej Timofejev

Serbia
Jelena Lengold

Suecia/ Sweden
Ges Boel Shenlaer

Suiza / Switzerland
Fabiano Alborghetti

Asia

Filipinas / Philippines
Ricardo M. De Ungria

Irak / Iraq
Khazal Al-Majidi
Manal Al Sheikh

Israel
Diti Ronen
Anat Zecharya

Japón / Japan
Kiwao Nomura

Palestina / Palestine
Fatena Al-Gurra
Mohammed Hudaid

Siria / Syria
Firas Sulaiman

Sri Lanka - Usa
Indran Amirthanayagam

África / Africa

Argelia / Algeria
Achour Fenni
Aboubakeur Zemmal

Egipto / Egypt
Montaser Abdelmawgoud

Marruecos / Morocco
Mezouar El Idrissi

Sudán / Sudan
Tarek El Tayeb

Sudáfrica / South Africa
David Wa Maahlamela

Oceanía / Oceania

Australia
Philip Hammial

Nueva Caledonia / New Caledonia
Anne Bihan

Nueva Zelanda / New Zealand
Michael Harlow

Translated by Cynthia Cordero