The XXVII National University Publishing Awards presented in Huelva

This afternoon, the Antiguas Cocheras del Puerto de Huelva hosted the delivery of the XXVII National University Publishing Awards, which recognize the best works published by the publishers of Spanish universities and research centers in thirteen different categories.

The jury that selected these works met on June 17 and was made up of Nuria Azancot, editor-in-chief of ‘El Cultura’ of ‘El Español’; Eva Catalán, Education in ‘The Conversation’; Laura Revuelta, editor-in-chief of ‘ABC Cultural’; Manuel Rodríguez Rivero, cultural critic; and Andrés Seoane, editor of Books in ‘La Lectura’ of ‘El Mundo’. Pedro Rújula, Director of Press at the University of Zaragoza, acted as secretary of the jury.

The awarded works in this edition and the jury’s justification in each case were as follows:

Best edited work. ‘Diego Velázquez invites Pablo Picasso’ (Casa de Velázquez). Because it is a dialogue, perfectly resolved in formal terms, between the two great Spanish painters, united in a single visual and intellectual look on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of Picasso’s death.

Best monograph in Arts and Humanities. ‘History of Ukraine. From Antiquity to Independence’ (University of Valladolid). For being the first comprehensive history of Ukraine, from its origins to the last independence, carried out by a Spanish author.

Best monograph in Sciences, Engineering and Architecture. Engineers in Spain. ‘The birth of an elite’ (University of the Basque Country/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea). For being a novel work in the historical assessment of the role of technicians in the construction and modernization of the contemporary State in Spain.

Best monograph in Health Sciences. ‘Neuropsychology of gender violence’ (University of Granada). For providing a scientific view of a current social problem whose consequences are visible on a daily basis. Special mention from the jury has been given to the work We were all the same: stories of life around leprosy (Universitat d’Alacant), which brings together a set of stories about the paradigm of a cursed disease such as leprosy, whose consequences have reached the present.

Best monograph in Legal and Social Sciences. ‘Women in war, exile and dictatorship (1936-1975): Strategies of collaboration and resistance’ (University of Salamanca). Because if war is always cruel, the Spanish Civil War for women was much worse, prolonged in exile and dictatorship.

Better translation. ‘Samguk Yusa. Memories of the three Korean kingdoms’ (University of Málaga). Because of the difficulty and originality of the translation from the Korean language that makes known a classic work of oriental culture.

Best educational work. ‘I’m starting to be older’ (University of Oviedo). Because it is a guide designed in the seventies of the last century and after being updated it can be revisited and used as a reference work in sexual education.

Best digital and multimedia editing. ‘3D Dental Anatomy Atlas’. (University of Salamanca). For making good use of multimedia tools in the treatment of content, resolving it appropriately in didactic terms and being open access for the entire reading public.

Best collection. Folia Medievalia Collection (University of León). For approaching the medieval world, from a multitude of angles and for a decade, with originality, rigor and exceptional editorial quality.

Best interuniversity co-edition.’ The Glosas Emilianenses and Silenses’ (San Millán de la Cogolla Foundation and Official State Gazette State Agency). For being the first bilingual philological edition of the Glosas Emilianenses and Silenses with the greatest specialists in the work.

Best Ibero-American co-edition. ‘Cartography of Mexico in the Historical Library of the University of Salamanca: geopolitical reading of its image for the Western world’ (1524-1835) (University of Salamanca and Autonomous University of Nuevo León). Due to the exceptional nature of the materials that make up this cartography, which portrays the political, social, economic and cultural evolution of New Spain from 1524 to 1835.

Best co-edition with a private publisher. ‘We flourish in an abyss. Poems’ (University of Alcalá and Economic Culture Fund). The anthology of an essential poet like Rafael Cadenas, a shocking author, honest, coherent and always in pursuit of the right word.

Best work of scientific dissemination. ‘Toledo, Texas. ML Estefanía and the Spanish Western’ (University of Cantabria). For treating a key figure in popular and newsstand literature of the 1950s, based on an imaginary Western that reconciled readers with the world.

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Historical listings

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(Sponsorship: The National University Publishing Awards are sponsored by CEDAR (Spanish Center for Reprographic Rights)