Guanajuato, Gto., September 6, 2019.- The renowned Mexican poet David Huerta visited the Armando Olivares Library of the University of Guanajuato (UG) in order to formalize the donation of a part of his personal library, consisting of 500 books, to this Institution.

The writer will receive the FIL Prize for Romance Literature in Romance 2019, followed by the formal delivery of the book collection, held a conversation with students from all over the country who participated during this week in the XIV Colloquium National "Efraín Huerta" of Language and Literature Students.

The bibliographic donation, which was formalized on Friday, was offered by David Huerta himself at the beginning of the current year, and in order to summarize it the respective agreement was prepared in the following months, which was raised during the ceremony by the authorities Guanajuato Campus, the Division of Social Sciences and Humanities, the Department of Hispanic Letters and the Library System of the Institution.

During his speech at the protocol event, Dr. David Huerta said that the books that were donated are of great appreciation to him, but he believes that it is necessary for all people who love to read at some point also make generous donations for for generations to come.

He assured that the donation was significant, towards the University of Guanajuato, since he considered that part of his being is in this city and in this House of Studies, with which he has already had various collaborations, from talks, courses and various events around the Literature.

For her part, representing the President of the University of Guanajuato, Dr. Luis Felipe Guerrero Agripino, the Holder of the University Editorial Program, Dr. Elba Margarita Sánchez Rolón, thanked Dr. Huerta for this donation of books his personal library, including titles of poetry, novel, short story, literary, political and philosophical essays, this in the framework of the closure of the XIV National Colloquium "Efraín Huerta", making this meeting more significant.

Also, the Director of the Division of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Guanajuato Campus, Dr. Cesar Federico Macías Cervantes reaffirmed that this donation is not only a significant gift, but also a powerful gift, since all the writings found in each book, empower the reader; he recalled that the Armando Olivares Library has grown thanks to the continuous donations of other personal libraries and allow the enrichment of visitors.

Finally, the Director of the Department of Hispanic Letters, Dr. Andreas Kurz said that this act is a generous gift since separating from books of great value, is difficult, because of all that it entails the reader to form his own collection, and then have to to get rid of this, that is why he thanked Dr. Huerta for such a kind act.

Made with the intention of reaffirming its emotional and family ties with Guanajuato, the donation consists of 500 books from his personal library, with various titles written in three languages: English, French and Spanish, by authors from different eras and geographies, this collection will be safeguarded at the Valenciana venue in the Luis Rius Library of the Division of Social Sciences and Humanities of the UG.

At the end of the protocol event, Dr. David Huerta offered a "conversational conference", a mixed genre that participates at the same time in the keynote lecture, the literary talk on various related topics and the class, given that the writer is also professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and the Autonomous University of Mexico City and who during his career has had a great closeness with generations of young people of readers, writers and cultural promoters.

David Huerta was born in Mexico City in 1949, the son of the poet Efraín Huerta (born in Silao, 1914) and Mireya Bravo. In 2011, the Economic Culture Fund gathered in two volumes (19 titles and 1099 pages) a substantial part of its poetic production under the title of "La mancha en el espejo". Poetry 1972-2011.

He has received the most important recognitions of the country: Carlos Pellicer Award for work published in 1990, Xavier Villaurrutia Award in 2005, National Prize of Sciences and Arts in the area of Linguistics and Literature in 2015, Award Excellence in the letters "José José Emilio Pacheco" 2018, and just this week it was announced that it will receive the FIL Prize for Literature in Romance Languages next November. He is also a cultural journalist and translator of poems and books by John Ashbery, Hilda Doolittle, Robert Lowell, Sir Walter Raleigh, Samuel Daniel, Emily Dickinson, Wallace Stevens, Victor Serge, Bernard Noel, Joachim du Bellay, Paul Luard, Jean-Paul de Dadelsen and Torquato Tasso.

Photo gallery