11-14-08, 12:05 pm

HAVANA, Cuba, Nov 14 (acn) Mexican Sergio Pitol, the 2005 Miguel de Cervantes Literature Prize winner, next week will receive a tribute from Havana’s Casa de las Américas cultural institution, where the author will read some of his stories.

Pitol will be the main figure of 'The Week of Authors,” slated for November 18th through 21st, organized annually by the Casa to honor the literary work of Latin American writers.

The program includes keynote lectures and the presentation of the Cuban edition of 'Nocturno de Bujara,' a storybook which won this narrator the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize in 1981, the Prensa Latina news agency reports.

Mexican writers Mario Bellatín, Rosa Beltrán, and Tryno Maldonado and Cubans Reina María Rodríguez and Antón Arrufat, are among the guests invited to talk about the work of this intellectual.

Also, the film “La vida conyugal,” by Carlos Carrera, inspired in Pitol’s novel with the same name, and the short 'Victorio Ferri', named after the first story he published, will be screened.

Born in 1933, he is considered to be one of the most outstanding writers in the Spanish language. He affirms that literature saved his life, marked by the loss of his parents and convalescence from severe malaria.

Pitol, who also began a diplomatic career as cultural attaché in Europe and Asia, has won other prizes, including the “Juan Rulfo,” at the Guadalajara Fair in 1999.

Among his works are Infierno de todos (1971), Juegos florales (1985), La casa de la tribu (1989) and Todos los cuentos más uno (1998).