Laura Garcia Lorca – Recipient of the Spanish Montblanc de la Culture Arts Patronage Award 2010

The Montblanc Cultural Foundation awarded Laura Garcia-Lorca de los Rios,  Federico García Lorca’s presidents Fundación, with the Spanish MONTBLANC DE LA CULTURE ARTS PATRONAGE AWARD 2010, honoring her patronage role and her constant engagement to keep alive the legacy of the great Spanish poet Federico García Lorca.

The ceremony took place in Madrid on April 20, 2010 in the presence Carlos Baztan (director de las Artes de Madrid), Antonia de Felipe (juror), Marqués de Villaverde and Fernandez Cruz Alvaro Silva (cultural advisor award) and the Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Spain Reinhard Silberberg, among other personalities.

The Federico García Lorca Foundation was created by Honoree Isabel García Lorca, the poet’s sister, who donated all the documents they possessed about the poet master pieces, letters, photos etc. to the foundation.

The amount of the prize will be dedicated to the cycle of Poetry Poet in New York, a series of lectures to be held between October 2010 and March 2011.

About the Montblanc de la Culture Arts Patronage Award

In 1992, Montblanc established the Foundation d’Enterprise Montblanc de la Culture to support and honour modern-day patrons of the arts who devoted their time, energy and money in order to encourage cultural life to flourish.

Each year the Montblanc de la Culture Arts Patronage Award recognises and celebrates the work of outstanding private patrons of the arts in 10 countries around the world. To be chosen, a patron has to demonstrate both, commitment to the arts but also the aim that the wider public should benefit as a result of that support. Previous Spanish Award winners included Liliana Godia (2009), José Manuel Lara (2008), Pilar Belzunce (2007).