The first female cartoonist and comic artist to win an award Quevedos Ibero-American Award for Graphic Humor He’s Argentinian: Mitina (1962). The Public Foundation of the University of Alcalá, with the support of the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the European Union and Spanish Cooperation, through the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation for Development (Aecid), held the conference A prize of 30,000 euros Get to know the Creator Changing women and He overcomes “For him”Innovation and originality in humorous language, its cultural and social impact, and its international projection Especially the Ibero-American, the quality and consistency of his career. The award, created in 1988, has been on hold since 2018.
After Quino and Eduardo Ferro, Maetina is the third Argentine actor to win the award, which was also received by the Spaniards Antonio Mingotti and Antonio Fraguas (Forges), the Brazilian Zeraldo, and the Chilean Hernán Vidal (Hervé), among others.
Maitina was leaving for La Pedrera in Uruguay when they told him the good news. “And I’m fifty thousand away, and I just moved to Plaza Italia, with a lot of stuff,” he sums up.
“A prize is a prize“There’s not a lot of graphic humor and that’s very important,” he told Los Angeles Nacion. It consists of 30.00 eurosAnd it’s not bad at all. He was received by people like Quino, El Roto (Spanish Andres Rabago) and Forges. I’m the first woman they’ve given it to and I love it“.
According to what her friend, the Spanish writer Rosa Montero, told her, the organizers of the award wanted to “return everything” after several stops and reward a creator recognized on both sides of the Atlantic.
“They used to give it every two years, and now they will give it every year,” he says. “They wanted a very strong award,” he says. and The fact that they chose a woman is a lot. I’m very happy, it’s a surprise I didn’t expect at all. I’ll be traveling to pick it up in May, when my book comes out. The women of my life In Spain, benefiting from the Madrid Book Fair and the Barcelona Comic Book Fair, So my full return to Spain will be prosperous. I’m so happy, life is so crazy, everything that happens to you after 60 amazes me. I returned to the world of work, to my readers and fell in love; It’s a lot.” Maitina is the partner of writer Gabriela Cabezon Cámara.
he jury It was made up of former winner Hervé. Jesús González González, Deputy Director General for the Promotion of Books, Reading and Spanish Literature, Ministry of Culture; Monica Redondo Alvarez, for Aecid; María Teresa del Valle Nuñez, Director General of the Public Foundation of the University of Alcalá; Angeles González Sende, Director of the Quevedo Institute of Humorous Arts of the Public Foundation of the University of Alcalá; Agustín Sánchez González, expert proposed by the Director of Cultural and Scientific Relations of Aecid; Natalia Meléndez Malavi, President, and Omar Zevallos, both experts proposed by the Director General of the Public Foundation of the University of Alcalá. Juan García Cerrada, member of the Quevedo Institute of Humorous Arts of the Public Foundation of the University of Alcalá, served as secretary of the jury.
In addition to the comic series Changing womenwhich became International successwith translations into more than fifteen languages, and adapted for the stage in Argentina, Spain and other countries. Maitina is the author of the series. He overcomes and Dangerous curves (with his works at LA NACION) and the novel Initiation rumble.
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