Petroperú recognized winners of the 2023 Copé

Petroperú recognized the winners of the XXI Poetry Biennial and the IX Novel Biennial, during an event in which the permanent and constant support for culture by the State oil company was highlighted.

As is known, the members of the qualifying jury selected the works “La memoria hila” and “Los espectros” as winners of the Gold Copé Award for the 2023 edition, respectively. Elma Murrugarra Pinedo won the Gold Copé Award for Poetry and Christian Elguera Olórtegui, the Novel Award.

Additionally, in the Poetry category, the collections of poems “River asleep on rubble of memory” and “Between the limits of a candle” were selected with the Silver and Bronze Copé, respectively. The authors are Alejandro Giancarlo Mautino Guillen and Alex Alan Ramos Arancibia.

During the day, the general manager of Petroperú, Herbert Goñas Aguilar, highlighted the great honor it is for the state oil company to organize, year after year, this award, since - he said - since 1979 Copé has been a reference and a boost for the cultural promotion actions that the company develops throughout the country with a single objective: to add to the construction and strengthening of Peruvian cultural identity.

It should be noted that more than 800 works participated in the selection, which were evaluated by the qualifying jury made up of Camilo Fernández, from the Peruvian Academy of Language; Rosella Di Paolo Ferrarini, for the Ministry of Culture; Luis Lino Salvador, from the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos; Luis Fernando Chueca, for the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and Marco Martos, for Petroperú.

Novel Biennial

The judging jury of the IX Novel Biennial awarded the highest award, out of a total of 173 works, to the work “Los Espectros” by Christian Elguera Olórtegui. The works obtained honorable mentions: “Tres Veces Bogotá”, with pseudonym Justino Delgado and the work “Ayacucho: corner of the dead”, with pseudonym Juan Preciado.

The qualifying jury was made up of Antonio González Montes, from the Peruvian Academy of Language; Jorge Valenzuela Garcés, for the Ministry of Culture; Milagros Carazas Salcedo, from the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos; Eduardo Huarag Álvarez, for the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and Ricardo González Vigil, for Petroperú.

In compliance with the contest rules, the winning works will be published under the Ediciones Copé label, which will subsequently be distributed to libraries and information centers nationwide, as part of the decentralized work of promoting and disseminating reading. and culture throughout the country.