2016 National Culture Award will be presented in the Gran Teatro Nacional

• The highest award granted by the State in this field is sponsored in its fifth consecutive year by PETROPERU.
• One of the receivers of the award is Carlos Germán Belli, who has set an essential poetic trajectory in Hispanic letters.
• The special ceremony will take place on Monday, November 28 starting at 11 AM.

The presentation of the National Culture Award (PNC), the most important award of the country, is now in its final stretch and has been confirmed that the ceremony for this important award -acknowledges the management and cultural development of people and institutions in favor of society- will take place this coming Monday, November 28, starting at 11 AM in the facilities of the Gran Teatro Nacional.

As is known, PETROPERU sponsors this award, which is presented in three categories: Trajectory, Creativity and Good Institutional Practices. The event is organized by the Ministry of Culture.

On this opportunity, the jury acknowledged the renowned poet Carlos Germán Belli with the 2016 PNC in its Trajectory category for his originality, demonstrated through an extensive body of work that combines the intensity of Surrealism and the elegance of the Century of Gold. Carlos Alberto García Bedoya, Marcela Robles, Mirko Lauer, Jorge Talavera and Ricardo Silva-Santisteban, made up the jury that granted him this award.

Similarly, the teacher Ricardo Dolorier Urbano won the award in the category Creativity, for “having demonstrated great creativity work by rescuing oral traditions in the teaching of reading both for children and adults, which makes the method that takes his name a powerful and inclusive tool for the intercultural development of our country”. The jury that chose Dolorier was made up by the writers Luz Guerrero, Ana María Denegri, Carmen Rosa Ollé, Mónica Bonifaz and Alejandro Rodríguez.

Similarly, the award was presented the category Good Institutional Practices to the Augusto N. Wiese Foundation, that works on the rescue and conservation of archaeological patrimony, specially on the La Libertad region with the El Brujo Archaeological Complex and the Cao Museum. There jury was composed of Baltazar Caravedo Molinari, Víctor Krebs Pacussich, Gonzalo Zegarra Mulanovich, Carlos Meléndez Guerrero and Beatriz Merino Lucero.

The special ceremony of this coming November 28 will have the presence of high officials of PETROPERU and of the Ministry of Culture