• Chapter 1: Hugo, Story of a Heart

  • Chapter 2. Transplantation. Five-hour limit: "There is finally a heart for Hugo"

  • Chapter 3. Recovery. A 'boom-boom' 171 days later: "We'll tell you that scar was a door"

HUGO, HISTORY OF A HEART

  • Chapter 1. The Wait

  • Chapter 2. Transplantation

  • Chapter 3. Recovery

The report

Hugo, historia de un corazón, the

work of EL MUNDO journalist

Pedro Simón,

finished among the three finalists in the Text category of the Gabo Awards held this morning.

The winner was the report

Venezuela, or paradise two smugglers, a

choral work published in InfoAmazonia, Miami Herald, Runrun.es, De Correspondent and Correo del Caroní.

The third runner-up was

The Invisible Drug Trafficker: On the Tracks of the Ghost Memo,

published in Insight Crime and led by Jeremy McDermott.

The Gabo Awards are considered

the most important reporter awards in the world in Spanish and Portuguese.

In this edition, there were 1,443 candidates and three selection rounds in which 58 jurors participated.

They were constituted by the Gabo Foundation, created in 1995 by the journalist and Nobel Prize for Literature

Gabriel García Márquez

.

In the final, the jury was made up of the Nicaraguan Cervantes award

Sergio Ramírez;

the Colombian journalist and philologist

Santiago Gamboa;

and the Spanish journalist and translator

Pilar del Río.

To tell his story, the EL MUNDO journalist

accompanied Hugo,

a 15-month-old boy who was waiting for a heart transplant at the Hospital de La Paz (Madrid)

for half a year

.

The report tells, through

three chapters,

the long wait of his parents, relatives and friends, the announcement of the transplant, the trip to collect the organ, the intervention in situ of several hours and the recovery of the child.

Portrait of Pedro Simón for the 30th anniversary of EL MUNDO.ALBERTO DILOLLI

According to the jury, Simón's work (Ortega y Gasset award in 2015) is "a text that captivates in a brutal way and that, almost at the same heart rate as it narrates,

accelerates the reader's heartbeat

due to its high invoice and surprising story. It is the adventure of a small family to save a life and the way in which different people, from remote places, are involved in

the journey of a fragile heart,

from a lifeless body to another that demands and needs it. A human report with a will to style that moves by the force that beats in a small heart ".

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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