The Café Varela, cradle of the new journalistic gathering, rewards the columnist of EL MUNDO Antonio Lucas

• Melquíades, the good patron of Varela, the new Café Gijón

Antonio Lucas

collected the prize awarded by its jury each year at Café Varela.

At the Hotel Preciados, a dinner was held in honor of the poet and columnist for EL MUNDO, in the halls of the Hotel Preciados where a gathering of politicians, journalists and columnists gather, which has recovered the splendor of this literary center of the city.

Antonio Lucas was accompanied by a selection of personalities led by the director of this newspaper,

and the legendary columnist

.

Also friends like

,

, the journalist

, the former Attorney General of the State Cándido Conde-Pumpido, the film critic

, the deputy opinion director of EL MUNDO

or

, deputy director.

In the 1930s, the café became the gathering place for the

and

Joaquín Manso, director of EL MUNDO, greets Pérez Reverte. ANGEL NAVARRETE

After the war, the café continued to be the center of social gatherings, and where music and poetry acquired greater relevance.

Especially the 50s, with the "Verses at Midnight", the poetic sessions on Friday nights, in which

and

would go on stage to read his poems.

In 1980 the original Café Varela disappeared and it was transformed into a seafood restaurant,

and in the year 2000 the hotel and restaurant was built whose owners,

and the brothers

and

They have wanted to revive the first Café Varela, with the creation of this literary award.

César Antonio Molina,

former Minister of Culture,

narrator and literary critic, inaugurated the Café Varela award in 2014. He was followed by names such as journalist

director of the Royal Academy;

cultural manager;

or the filmmaker and novelist

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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