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Published: Tuesday, 12 June 2018 16:50

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Photo: CadenagramonteHavana, Jun 12.- The National Hero of Cuba, José Martí, was appointed a member of the New York Writers Hall of Fame (Hall of Fame of writers from New York), in recognition of his work as a poet, essayist, journalist and politician.

In this way, the Cuban creator became the second Hispanic writer in entering the exclusive lounge, after which he did in 2011 the Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos, accurate today the site Cubadebate.

The proposal was driven in recent times by Esther Allen, scholar and translator of Martí and the Cuban-American historian Ada Ferrer, at New York University, scholars and promoters of his work.

The entry in the select group from New York was made during a ceremony, in which the own Ferrer and Lisandro Pérez, a Cuban-American sociologist, professor at John Jay College, were in charge of the words on the occasion of the inclusion.

The New York Writers Hall of Fame is a project of the Empire State Center for the Book that grants annually memberships to several writers, alive or dead, that have marked the cultural history of that great city.

Some of the most famous members are Walt Whitman and Herman Melville, Washington Irving and Henry James, Edith Wharton and Elizabeth Bishop, Marianne Moore and Mary McCarthy, Langston Hughes and James Baldwin, among others.

This year, along with José Martí, joined five other writers, two of them also died: Ira Gershwin (1896-1983), American lyricist, who created many well known songs together with his brother George Gershwin, and E.L.Konigsburg (1930-2013), author of children's books.

The other three authors are the historian and journalist Russell Shorto (1959), Colson Whitehead (1969), novelist, winner of a Pulitzer prize and Jacqueline Woodson (1963), currently Ambassador of Literature for Young People in the United States. (Cadenagramonte)