Dayana Fraile ganó el VI Premio de Cuento Policlínica Metropolitana / El Universal

Dayana Fraile won the VI Premio de Cuento Policlínica Metropolitana


The writer from the state of Anzoátegui obtained first place for her short story “Evocación y elogio de Federico Alvarado Muñoz. A tres años de su muerte.” Delia Mariana Arismendi and Miguel Hidalgo Prince also received prizes.

The fiction writers Dayana Fraile, Delia Mariana Arismendi and Miguel Hidalgo Prince were the winners (among a total of 214 participating texts) of the sixth edition of the Premio de Cuento Policlínica Metropolitana para Jóvenes Autores, according to a unanimous decision of the jury composed of Victoria De Stefano, José Luis Palacios and Luis Yslas.

The first place in the contest fell on the short story “Evocación y elogio de Federico Alvarado Muñoz. A tres años de su muerte” [Evocation and Elegy for Federico Alvarado Muñoz. Upon the Third Anniversary of His Death] by Dayana Fraile (Puerto La Cruz, 1985), “for being a story that successfully articulates diverse narrative verbal tenses, maintaining an efficient tension, while also making use of poetic images that enrich a prose without stridency that is also an elegy for a failed experience.”

They gave the second place to the story titled “Mondadientes,” by Delia Mariana Arismendi (Barinas, 1989), for “possessing a narrative rhythm that doesn’t falter at any time, due to her employment of a simple but effective language that recreates a story of atypical solitudes that come together in the singular figure of a cannibal.

And lastly, they awarded third place to the text entitled “A medio camino,” by Miguel Hidalgo Prince (Caracas, 1984), in which “there exists a sober writing, stripped of ornament, that recreates the story of a geographical and psychological detour, through a fluid and convincing narration that incorporates dialogues of accomplished effectiveness.”

The members of the jury also awarded mentions to the following texts, listed without order of valoration: “Las propiedades curativas del fuego” (by Dacio René Medrano Arreaza), “Hacia una metodología del desecho” (by Noraedén Mora Méndez), “La visión de los lobos (by Enza García Arreaza),” “Erika y Berenice” (by Katy Civolani), “¿Cómo cae un poderoso?” (by Juan Carlos González Díaz) and Sin título, 2010” (by Martha Durán).

The winners will receive a cash award of 8,000, 4,000 and 2,000 bolívares, respectively, as well as appearing, alongside the finalists, in an anthology corresponding to this edition of the prize.

It is worth noting that this edition of the Premio de Cuento Policlínica Metropolitana para Jóvenes Autores took place completely without using any paper, since the convocation and reading by the jury were accomplished by means of digital media, contributing to ecological awareness and increasing the possibilities of the population of young people to which the contest is geared.

The awarding of the prizes will take place on May 31st this year, in the installations of the Policlínica Metropolitana medical center in Caracas.




{ El Universal, 1 May 2012 }