This Friday, February 21st at 7:00 p.m. at Casa Haas, the Instituto Municipal de Cultura, Turismo y Arte de Mazatlán presents the book that won the Mazatlán Literature Prize 2025: “Jardín de noche” by author Fabio Morábito, who will be present to share his literary creativity, promote his work, connect with readers and receive recognition from the public.
At this event, the author will be accompanied by the members of the jury, writers Eve Gil, Braulio Peralta and Juan José Rodríguez, who will speak about the literary quality of Fabio Morábito and the reasons why they decided to award him the prestigious prize that enjoys great prestige in Mexico.
The award ceremony will be on Saturday, February 22nd at 8:00 p.m. at the Ángela Peralta Theater, during the Evening of the Arts that celebrates the 60th anniversary of the Mazatlán Prize for Literature with the presentation of the award to the Italian-Mexican writer (as he considers himself), and a cash prize of 100 thousand pesos awarded by the Autonomous University of Sinaloa.
During this special evening at the TAP, a tribute will be paid to Johann Strauss. On the bicentennial of his birth, the music of the brilliant Austrian composer and conductor, known as the King of the Waltz, will be performed by the Camerata Mazatlán under the baton of guest conductor, Maestro Enrique Patrón De Rueda. The musicians will share the stage with soloists Jéssika Arévalo, Andrés Carrillo, Vanessa Gama and Sarah Holcombe and dancers from the Mazatlán Ballet Company, directed by Maestra Zoila Fernández.
Fabio Morábito is an Italian-Mexican writer born in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1955. At the age of three, his family returned to Italy, and at the age of 15 he moved to Mexico, where he has lived ever since. Although his mother tongue is Italian, he has written all his work in Spanish.
About “Jardín de noche” the Argentine writer and critic Márgara Averbach wrote: “It is a collection of stories that depicts the lonely women of a neighborhood; but it can be considered a novel, because it weaves a single emotional story, baroque and wild like an abandoned garden.”
The work has been described as “a series of musical variations on the same melody that sings of the loneliness, envy, doubts and desires of the women narrators. Each fragment tells of a moment in which the protagonists undress in front of an imaginary mirror and in front of the readers.
The book presentation is a unique opportunity for the public to get closer to the author and learn more about his work.
Free admission, limited capacity.
