Day laborer on the list of five winners of the First Cristina Pacheco Short Story Contest
Day laborer , on the list of the five winners of the First Cristina Pacheco Short Story Contest
Eder Torres Trujillo presented a text that talks about Mexico City a bit like Salvador Novo did.
▲ Young journalist Eder Daniel Torres Trujillo was awarded the Josetxo Zaldua Lasa scholarship for 2022 students. Photo courtesy of FES Acatlán
From the Editorial Staff
La Jornada Newspaper, Wednesday, May 7, 2025, p. 4
The text Ensamble de recuerdos by Eder Daniel Torres Trujillo, editorial assistant at La Jornada , was one of the five winners in the written chronicle category of the First Cristina Pacheco Short Chronicle Contest, organized by the Mexico City Ministry of Culture.
The 23-year-old young journalist graduated from the UNAM Acatlán Faculty of Higher Studies and was part of the first generation of the Josetxo Zaldua Lasa scholarship for journalism students (2022), implemented by this newspaper and the highest institution of studies so that outstanding students from its three communication careers could carry out professional internships at La Jornada .
Eder's chronicle speaks of Mexico City through his life and memories, a bit like Salvador Novo did
, to narrate his time at the CCH Azcapotzalco, the 2017 earthquake, his social service at the National Museum of World Cultures, his move from the state of Mexico to the country's capital and his entry into the newspaper.
Also receiving awards were Elías Palatto for his chronicle Why So Late, Vania?; Alfonso Nicol Sotelo Gómez for The Little Eyes of Ferrería ; Guillermo Armenta Ugalde for Instructions for Saying Goodbye to a Dead Man; and Uriel Padilla Martínez for Brief Encounter with Water and Land in Southeast Mexico City.
In the audio chronicle category, the works chosen were Camila Caballero Molina, The Noises of Routine , and Monserrat Berber, Tlaltenco: heart that beats to the rhythm of carnival .
The winner in the video feature category was Memories of Jano El Huasteco
by Frida Abigail Acosta Sandoval; the song feature category was Oh, How Crazy My City! by Diego Freeman Villalobos; and the comic/photo feature category was Date Grasa by Michel Mendoza López.
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