Good afternoon. The first thing I would do is, of course, give thank the jury for considering me worthy of this award hiperbreve. It's a great satisfaction to get the reader, that this letter will reach you even if reinterpreted, disguised or diluted. But are even greater satisfaction and pride when you get experts to reach readers, as is the case. I feel overwhelmed, shocked, I still, unable to get rid of her, the feeling of vertigo seized me when I said I was awarded the first prize. And I never thought I could win a literary prize. The unbelievers, though many things we dream, we never expected anything, what makes us were stunned when fate smiles a little. Insist my deep gratitude.
did not want to miss the opportunity to discuss the short story. Not only have I written a text hiperbreve to participate in this contest but I have long fans of the genre. In the words of Ana Maria Matute, "I write not to give me awards, but I give prizes for writing." My love for this genre comes from the fascination that I produce as thumbnails that are detailed and complex. The mill, machinery, watches a short story is a breathtaking beauty. With pleasure, I often bombing reading good stories hiperbreves and I try to break entanglement in its structure to understand, but almost always end with the table full Gear that I'm not able to fit again.
The short story is, if you prefer, as a soap bubble full of smoke when we blow the smoke filling the room expands, we breathe and it's part of us forever. We can also get carried away by the enthusiasm and compare it to a supernova. But what is certain is that it is a genre that, like poetry, the writer requires discipline and expertise, plus trade sensitivity to see the hidden faces of the prism that is the reality. Also the default language of the vanguard of moves by its ambiguities and bending with the naturalness of a child having fun. What a challenge, right? Hopefully
someday I get excited to a reader as much as I have moved Hipólito G. Navarro, Cristina Peri Rossi, Angel Olgoso ... And I can not talk about the story, short or not, without naming Borges and Cortazar, but also to national and Cristina Fernández Cubas Medardo Fraile. Of these, and many others that I have no time or memory to name-not only get the benefit of the pleasure of reading his works but also to be able to learn from great teachers.
On the other hand, the author's encounter with a short story is never random. Is the product of a search. And I'm glad Puértolas Soledad has included in his inaugural address to the SAR these wise words: "The literary inquiry some of the uncertainty and risk, and no conclusions or decisions sought. " And in these words describe, better than I had ever done, a deep conviction that I maintain as an engineer, executor of the discoveries of science, dedicated to other knowledge to which the art does not provide access. But the fact is, any art form-beyond science, humanities, social sciences ...- is a means of accessing other knowledge, that of the uncertainties, ambiguities, that of our own shadows. I feel rewarded with this award that dive into the unknown and not mere chance meeting with a good phrase. This I think.
If you allow me Lift me, my first story I wrote seven years, was a story about a cat in a graveyard of cars was a blue ribbon. Since then I have devoured hundreds of books tireless, I have traveled the lines trying to unravel the mystery of this game. I started the climb that leads to the "shoulders of giants" of science that Newton spoke but found in literature. This is a course that overlaps our steps to the footsteps of the masters and made their way and aims to give easy credit for a light one little step further. On this scale, I have to walk me to the ankles of the giants, going up just the heel. But enough by now to what I see me motivated.
And to keep climbing, and writing must continue reading. I still do the same passion, the enthusiasm with which he opened the books of my childhood. I try to keep writing the same innocence that led me to do stories with cats and birds, I now parapet techniques, I learn, I clinched. If the result is not perfect there will always be the reward of pleasure and curiosity to see how far I can go on the next line.
I, like all you ever do, I also saw the bird away and stay with their cell, but do not let it take away my childhood. That just served me In order for me not to stay near the cage if providence had a good day to open the door. Thank
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