Revista de Occidente receives the National Prize for the Promotion of Reading on the eve of its centenary

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Culture also rewards the Windcatcher Association for its work with youth at risk of exclusion and the disabled

The nearly centenarian Revista de Occidente and the Windcatcher Association have received the National Award for the Promotion of Reading. The prize, which is awarded annually by the Ministry of Culture, is of an honorary nature and therefore has no financial resources.

The jury distinguished the Revista de Occidente “because it is a reference in the cultural edition of this country, with an extensive, almost 100-year trajectory that has been able to adapt to the new times, expanding to other areas and media.” “It is a magazine that has been intensively involved in shaping critical and democratic thinking, which, as the founder of Ortega y Gasset said, has and is attentive to the problems of its time,” added the jury.

Revista de Occidente, published today by the José Ortega y Gasset-Gregorio Marañón Foundation, is a cultural space that collects the most relevant thoughts, science, plastic creation, cinematographic and audiovisual literature and continues with the same objectives that led it to its founder in 1923 , Jose Ortega and Gasset.

It will thus be a hundred years old in 2023, in full activity and developing a cultural project that it has managed to preserve for so many years. The commemoration of the centenary of Revista is an event with an extraordinary dimension for Spanish, Ibero-American and European culture.

The essay takes precedence in content as a means of expression and communication and is aimed at a majority audience interested in contemporary intellectual debate. It features exclusive interviews with leading representatives of international artistic and scientific thought and creation, and its covers feature illustrations by established artists.

The Windcatcher Association will be recognized “for its efforts to promote reading among young people at risk of social exclusion and in groups with intellectual disabilities, in addition to establishing a link between the promotion of reading and writing.” “The commitment to promoting reading habits in rural areas and in particular the ‘Books that matter’ project which, based on cooperation between citizens, encourages sustainability in the book ecosystem”, the jury emphasized

She is committed to promoting reading, with over thirteen years of experience, she has participated in projects related to the promotion of reading in rural areas, groups at risk of being excluded from reading, through scholarships for young adolescents writing or by collaborating with organizations such as Fundación Rey Ardid, Asapme , Adislaf, Aldeas Infantiles or Atades.

It also participates in the humanization of hospitals by inventing and developing creative writing workshops for children and adolescents, which they held in 2014 in the cyberclassroom of the Zaragoza Maternal and Child Hospital. In 2015 they took part in a project of artistic interventions in the pediatrics factory and in 2021 they promoted the Whisperers project.

They have also run the Books that Matter project (www.librosqueimportan.org). Since 2016, it has registered more than 10,500 book exchanges between readers from nearly a hundred Spanish cities and from other countries and the Young Novelists Laboratory, designed for teenagers who want to learn how to write a novel.

The National Prize for the Promotion of Reading is awarded to «recognize a professional career or to highlight outstanding and ongoing contributions.

Source: La Verdad

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