Lima, Peru | Sunday 08 November 2009 03:49 | | |

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Peruvian artist Fernando Bryce has been included in the shortlist for the £40,000 prize of the 2009 “Artes Mundi” competition, the UK's biggest visual arts prize, which has attracted more than 480 nominations from more than 80 countries.
The World Monuments Fund ( WMF), announced the 2010 World Monuments Watch list, and the famous Peruvian Machu Picchu ruins are included in it.
The Arequipa Book Fair 2009 (FIL 2009) closed doors yesterday, surpassing by far the organizers' expectations, who issued a press release informing about the official figures on sales and attendance during the 12 days that this fair lasted.
The Peruvian writer Daniel Alarcón won the new International Prize for Literature, award, created by the House of World Cultures in Berlin (HKW), for his novel “Radio Ciudad Perdida” (Lost City Radio), which was translated into German.
In the last number of the Argentinian magazine “Fierro”, the editors have included an illustrated adaptation of “París, October 1936", from the famous Peruvian poet César Vallejo.
Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa won the International Essay Contest “Caballero Bonald” Award, with his work “El viaje a la ficción” (A Trip to Fiction), which explores the world of the Uruguayan fiction writer Juan Carlos Onetti.
The government of Bolivia finally accepted that the famous tune “El Cóndor Pasa” (The Condor passes by) is from Peruvian origin, stating that the Bolivian blogs that claim the song is in fact Bolivian “do not have legal recognition.”
The facilities of the Santuarios Andinos Museum, which houses the Mummy Juanita, will be expanded aiming to show visitors unedited pieces found in pre-Inca tombs, reported Jose Antonio Chavez, head of the cultural complex.
September 26th is the date in which Lima’s salsa dancers will have the chance to dance to some of the best salsa music in all of Latin America. The Puerto Rican group, El Gran Combo, will celebrate their 50 years of artistic life in La Videna in San Luis. The group will also collaborate with Gilberto Santa Rosa and José Alberto El Canario.
The Peruvian musicians Eva Ayllón, Gianmarco Zignago and the group Novalima will compete for various awards on November 5th in Las Vegas at the 2009 Latin Grammy Awards.
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