FCE awarded in Spain
Armando G. Tejeda
Correspondent
La Jornada Newspaper, Thursday, July 3, 2025, p. 5
Madrid. The Fondo de Cultura Económica (FCE) received the Archiletras de la Lengua 2025 award in the institutional
category at the Casa de América in Madrid. This award recognizes this publishing group's 91-year history, which has made language a cultural mission
. In addition to the FCE, other prominent cultural figures were recognized, such as actor José Sacristán, Colombian poet Piedad Bonnett, and linguist and lexicographer Olimpia Andrés.
These awards are now in their fourth edition, maintaining the spirit with which they were born, with the aim of recognising, distinguishing, celebrating and honouring people, groups, entities and institutions that have distinguished themselves in the year immediately prior to the call for applications for their merits in the promotion, support, research and development of the Spanish language, in any of its dialectal varieties, or of some of the other languages in contact with Spanish in any of its territorial areas
.
The prizes, without monetary reward, award an original sculpture, specially made, which in this case was a metal work with a capital letter 'A' that decomposes behind the glass of a magnifying glass.
The institutional award was announced during the ceremony, which also included a shortlist of candidates; in addition to the FCE, the Ateneo de Madrid and the North American Academy of Language were also present. The jury ultimately chose the Mexican publisher, justifying this by highlighting that the award is being given to a Spanish-language publishing group founded and based in Mexico with a presence throughout Latin America. In its more than 90 years of history, it has published more than 10,000 works and has 5,000 of them still in circulation. Its catalog includes 65 Nobel Prize winners, 33 Cervantes Prize winners, and 29 Princess of Asturias Award recipients
.
The person in charge of accepting the award was Manuel José Lazcano, director of the FCE in Madrid, who stated in his acceptance speech that , in these 91 years of FCE history, we also want to thank our colleagues at the publishing house who, over the years, have been honoring and bringing works by Ibero-American authors from California to Valparaíso. And in the words of our director, Paco Ignacio Taibo II, "Don't forget that reading is both liberating and entertaining. And we invite you to join us in the fun
."
UNAM creates a commission to highlight the universal value of the University City
Lilian Hernández Osorio
La Jornada Newspaper, Thursday, July 3, 2025, p. 5
UNAM Rector Leonardo Lomelí signed an agreement creating the Special Commission for the Anniversary of the University City Central Campus of this institution as a World Heritage Site.
Noting that June 28, 2027, will mark 20 years since the central campus was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List, he considered it appropriate for the commission to take charge of the preparations for this commemoration.
The goal, he said, is to highlight the universal value of this university area among sites around the world that boast artistic, cultural, or architectural value.
All decisions of the commission will be made by consensus, and they will be responsible for designing work plans to achieve efforts to recover the immovable artistic heritage of the University City.
They must also promote a culture of heritage conservation among the university community, in line with the UNESCO declaration made 18 years ago.
The declaration stated the following: The University City integrates urban planning, architecture, engineering, landscaping, and the fine arts, associating all elements with references to local traditions. The complex embodies social and cultural values of universal significance and has become one of the most important symbols of modernity in Latin America
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