Dominican Republic Ministry of Culture Announces 2026 Literature and 2025 History Award Winners

The Dominican Republic Ministry of Culture (MINC) held a ceremony at its headquarters to present the 2026 Annual Literature Awards and the 2025 José Gabriel García History Award. Viceminister Pastor de Moya opened the event, which was attended by other vice‑ministers, the director general of Books and Reading Aquiles Julián, director of Literary Management Fari Rosario, and senior officials of the National Library.

Awardees included Manuel García Cartagena, who won the Manuel de Jesús Galván Novel Prize for "La enana"; poet Alberto Eloy Tejera, who received the Salomé Ureña Poetry Prize for "Morir es verse"; essayist Ysabel Noemí Tejeda Díaz, honored with the Pedro Henríquez Ureña Essay Prize for "Culto al cuerpo: las tentaciones entre la salud y la apariencia"; playwright Ingrid Luciano Sánchez, winner of the Cristóbal de Llerena Theatre Prize for "Hay una yola en el mundo"; César Sánchez Beras, who took the Aurora Tavárez Belliard Children and Youth Literature Prize for "El mapa de la noche"; Gustavo Olivo Peña, awarded the José Ramón López Short‑Story Prize for "Desde un costado de la (des)memoria"; and historian Carlos Manuel Diloné, whose work "Ingenio Barahona: la fundación del Batey Central y su impacto en el desarrollo de la provincia" earned the José Gabriel García History Award.