{"id":255436,"date":"2007-09-05T13:57:22","date_gmt":"2007-09-05T13:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2007\/09\/05\/fernando-del-paso-to-receive-fil-literature-prize\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:36:29","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:36:29","slug":"fernando-del-paso-to-receive-fil-literature-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2007\/09\/05\/fernando-del-paso-to-receive-fil-literature-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Fernando del Paso to Receive FIL Literature Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fernando del Paso&#8212;author of several novels, including <i>Palinuro of Mexico<\/i>, <i>Jose Trigo<\/i>, and <i>Noticias del Imperio<\/i>&#8212;will receive this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fil.com.mx\/ingles\/i_rulfo\/i_rulfo.asp\"><span class=\"caps\">FIL<\/span> Literature Prize.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The $100,000 <span class=\"caps\">FIL<\/span> Literature Prize is presented as recognition for lifetime achievement in any literary genre. Past winners include: Nicanor Parra (1991), Juan Jos\u00e9 Arreola (1992), Eliseo Diego (1993), Julio Ram\u00f3n Ribeyro (1994), N\u00e9lida Pi\u00f1\u00f3n (1995), Augusto Monterroso (1996), Juan Mars\u00e9 (1997), Olga Orozco (1998), Sergio Pitol (1999), Juan Gelman (2000), Juan Garc\u00eda Ponce (2001), Cintio Vitier (2002), Rubem Fonseca (2003), Juan Goytisolo (2004), Tom\u00e1s Segovia (2005) and Carlos Monsiv\u00e1is (2006). Fernando del Paso has been selected for the 2007 Prize and will receive it during the inauguration ceremony of the 2007 Guadalajara International Book Fair on November 24th.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Guadalajara Book Fair is one of the world&#8217;s most amazing fairs, and this event is overwhelming. As an American, it&#8217;s not often that I have a chance to attend events where authors are treated like rock stars . . . <\/p>\n<p>In terms of del Paso, the only book of his in English is <i>Palinuro of Mexico<\/i>, a hilarious, Rabelaisian romp. <i>Jose Trigo<\/i> is often cited by the &#8220;Crack&#8221; writers as a major influence, and sounds quite fascinating and complex. <\/p>\n<p>An interview between Ilan Stavans and Fernando del Paso can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/dalkeyarchive.com\/interviews\/527\/fernando-del-paso\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fernando del Paso&#8212;author of several novels, including Palinuro of Mexico, Jose Trigo, and Noticias del Imperio&#8212;will receive this year&#8217;s FIL Literature Prize. The $100,000 FIL Literature Prize is presented as recognition for lifetime achievement in any literary genre. Past winners include: Nicanor Parra (1991), Juan Jos\u00e9 Arreola (1992), Eliseo Diego (1993), Julio Ram\u00f3n Ribeyro (1994), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[1836,5626,5616,5606],"class_list":["post-255436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-cwp","tag-fernando-del-paso","tag-fil-literature-prize","tag-guadalajara-book-fair"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":362646,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255436\/revisions\/362646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}