GFDD and FUNGLODE Will Showcase GFDD/FUNGLODE Awards Publications at 6th Annual Dominican Book Fair in New York

Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD) and Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (FUNGLODE) are pleased to be partnering once again with the Dominican Commissioner for Culture in New York to celebrate the 6th Annual Dominican Book Fair. The annual event celebrates the literary contributions of Dominican authors, both in the Dominican Republic and in the United States. This year, the Fair will take place September 28-30, 2012 at Boricua College in the
Bronx.

The event will provide an important opportunity for GFDD and FUNGLODE to showcase some of their latest publications in the book collection "Poetry and Story." The collection features the works of 2011 GFDD-FUNGLODE Awards winners in the categories of poetry (Pedro Mir Award) and short story (Juan Bosch Award):

César Augusto Zapata (poetry) — "Hechas y sospechas"
("Acts and suspicions")
Nan Chevalier (short story) — El muñeco de trap (Rag doll)
Kianny Antigua (short story) — Downtown
Danilo Rodríguez (short story) — Porfirio y la serpiente (Porfirio and the serpent)

About the GFDD/FUNGLODE Awards
The GFDD/FUNGLODE Awards seek to promote and celebrate excellence in written expression, documentary film and photography. The annual competition was created with the purpose of stimulating creativity among Dominicans in the Dominican Republic and overseas. The award categories are divided in two groups,
audiovisual (photography and documentary film) and literary (short story, non-fiction, novel, poetry and journalism). The initiative recognizes and promotes the talents and achievements of Dominicans.

The 2011 edition of the GFDD/FUNGLODE Awards received 281 entries: 146 in the category of short story; 42 in the category of poetry; 11 in the category of essay; 51 in the category of photography; 4 in the category of documentary film; and 27 in the category of
journalism.

Related link:
http://www.funglode.org/premiosfunglode/portada.htm