Importance of Cuban cultural magazines highlighted at the Matanzas Book Fair (+photos).
The presentation of the most recent issue of Matanzas magazine took place today at the colloquium Pasar revista, within the program of the 33rd Book Fair, at the provincial Museum Palacio de Junco, in charge of Beatriz Ferreiro García.
The presentation of the most recent issue of Matanzas magazine took place today at the colloquium Pasar revista, within the program of the 33rd Book Fair, at the provincial Museum Palacio de Junco, in charge of Beatriz Ferreiro García.
The publication, which will soon be released on the channels and social networks of Ediciones Matanzas, was dedicated to José Zacarías Tallet with the dossier Tallet, the fertile seed, which includes assessments of his work and its repercussion in the Cuban cultural panorama.
It also offers sections dedicated to poetry, including Manglar y uvero, Botella al mar and Asombros de la isla that reflect texts by authors such as Guillermo Bianchi, Dianelys Gómez, as well as poems by Fina García Marruz and Roberto Fernández Retamar dedicated to Tallet.
Also appearing in it are authors such as Náthaly Hernández Chávez in her double capacity as narrator and poet, opinion pieces related to the play I want, by playwright and actress María Laura Germán, signed by Ulises Rodríguez Febles and Rubén Darío Salazar, among other materials.
A luxury panel led the meeting during the second day of the #Feria on Yumurino soil, during the colloquium Pasar revista. Jorge Fornet, its director, spoke about Casa magazine, inaugurated in June 1960.
The essayist systematized the stages that have defined the development of this publication designed for Latin America and the Caribbean with an important Latin Americanist sense and highlighted Roberto Fernandez Retamar as the soul of the publication until his death. He also announced that the next issue will be dedicated to the new contemporary poetry, in connection with the centenary of Ernesto Cardenal and the anniversary of Roque Dalton’s birth.
Laidi Fernández de Juan referred to La Jiribilla, a digital magazine founded on August 5th, 2001, which has 14 columns by authors such as Mauricio Escuela, Rubén Darío Salazar and Laidi herself, as well as sections with dossiers, interviews, chronicles and articles on local customs. Fernández de Juan highlighted the creative freedom that characterizes the work in La Jiribilla, which favors the appearance of many young people in its pages.
Lidia Meriño dedicated her speech to Signos magazine, in which she highlighted its founding by Samuel Feijóo in 1969 with the prominence of graphics and the presence of prominent artists who are responsible for the illustrations of their designs. «It covers, he pointed out, genres such as chronicles, interviews, testimonies, curious anecdotes and humor».
Arístides Vega, for his part, pointed out the importance of magazines in a country with a long tradition of this type of publication, with emblematic titles such as Orígenes.
The panel was closed by Alfredo Zaldívar, director of Ediciones Matanzas and the magazine of the same name, who narrated the trajectory of the publication founded in 1912, with reappearances in 1935 and 1968.
The poet and National Design Award winner mentioned some of the people who have worked and still work there, as well as the sections that make up each issue of Matanzas magazine.
Written by Jessica Mesa.
