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. Guestbook. Winning works of the Biennial Tale 'Award Cope '(1979-2008). Cope editions. Lima, 2009. 312 pp.

Submit a book turns out to be a difficult task, even more if it is a work that brings together the voices of several authors. And the task becomes a real challenge if this book exists behind a pretext than individual will, the personal desire or intent explicit ie, the interest of an individual. Guestbook . Winning works of the Biennial Tale "Cope Award" (1979-2008) is not an anthology, it is the product of a "natural selection" that began thirty years ago under the name Cope Short Story Award 1979, which then accurately defined as Biennial Report, and today, thanks to a recent update Cultural Policy Petroperu-called Cope Award International. And if we must talk about people, because in matters of literary material as appropriate credit is to recognize individuals in this story shines the name of Peter Cateriano, driver Award Cope, a member of the Jury qualifiers since 1979, representing Petroperu.

Guestbook is the sum of fifteen voices, but, unlike an anthology, the meeting is fair and unquestionable stories of the same number of authors who were chosen by juries composed Qualifiers writers, literary critics, intellectuals and cultural promoters class. But Guestbook is part of another great cultural project of Petroleos del Peru: Ediciones seal Cope. And this imprint is part of a more intense story: the story of Petroperu, oil Peruvian State is celebrating its four decades of institutional life.

But Guestbook is also part of a larger story, so transcendent and ancestral. The word "Cope" was used for generations by the inhabitants of the territories that now form the Peru to refer to the pitch. This substance was used for lighting and heating, and for tanning hides and treating ropes and gear. He also had a magical-religious use, when applied in the face for greater power over men and nature. This term belongs to a language that does not exist today, already died, a language that was used en la actual zona norte del Perú, nos recuerda lo frágil que es una existencia colectiva, lo expuesta a la desaparición que está una cultura. Gracias a las crónicas, recogidas en libros, este término ha llegado hasta nuestros días. De hecho, fue registrado por primera vez en el Diccionario de la Lengua Española en 1925, es decir, en la decimaquinta edición. Y hoy, esta sugestiva palabra, representa exitosamente en el ámbito de la cultura, lo que Petroperú lleva a cabo como parte de su misión corporativa.

Sin ninguna duda, la mejor manera de celebrar el trigésimo aniversario del Premio Copé, en el contexto de los forty years of institutional life Petroperú is with the publication of Guestbook . Confine the celebration to a purely ceremonial, with pretty words of commitment and a toast would have been betraying the spirit and mystique of a project that transcends a particular individual or management. The appearance of a book is always cause for celebration, but in Peru is the cause of double celebration, because what exactly is needed in our country are books, they are readers. Book promotion and dissemination of reading are not recent actions that obey a Petroperú fashion. It is a concern that begins in 1969 and should not be stopped. What we need in this country are readers, and these require books. The book is the best tool to combat the major ills that impede that Peru no longer a Third World country, with citizens who fail to excel and give place to the outsider.

In this sense, the emergence of Guestbook is an excellent sign that Petroperú up on the right track. This book, in addition to speaking highly of the Peruvian narrative, speaks in the most positive sense of this expression, Senior Management Petroperu, its managers, officers and employees. How many companies can proud of having a cultural policy that strongly supports the arts in its various expressions, which is concerned with national identity and history of the country, promotes and distributes the book reading?

Publishing Guestbook should not go through the typical banality editorial release, so full of frivolity and advertising business. This new title Editions Cope is, in principle, a tribute to the poet Washington Delgado, the winner of the First Biennial Tale in 1979. He is no longer on this plane of existence, but still alive, thanks to the magic of literature, we can still enjoy the power of his voice, his poetic expression, and his undeniable talent to make individuals better people after the screening of reading their texts.

Delgado But Washington is not the only thing that moves us with his extraordinary story "The death of Dr. Octavio Aguilar." They are also Julio Ortega, "Avenue West", winner of the Second Biennial Tale 1981 Colchado Oscar with "Cordillera Negra", winner of the Third Biennial Tale 1983 Cromwell Jara, to "leakage Castro Agamemnon ", winner of the Fourth Biennial Tale 1985; Luis Enrique Tord, to "Hamete Cide co-author of the Quixote", winner of the V Biennial Tale 1987, and Eduardo Paz Esquerre, to "The supreme initiation Caur Guacri", winner of the Sixth Biennial Tale 1989.

also Luis Nieto Degregori, to "Maria Nieves', winner of the Seventh Biennial Tale 1992, Yuri Vasquez, to" When the last lights are off, "winner of the VIII Tale Biennial 1994; Carlos Schwalb, with "Fire", winner of the Ninth Biennial Tale 1996, Fernando Iwasaki, with 'The derby of the penultimate " winner of the X Biennial Tale 1998, José de Pierola, to "Pens", winner of the XI Biennial Tale 2000, Gregorio Martinez, "Rosewood Guitar ', winner of the XII Bienal Tale 2002; Luis Alfredo Espinoza, to "History of Soap", winner of the XIII Bienal Tale 2004; Selenco Vega, "The Blood of Las Alpujarras", winner of the XIV Tale 2006 and Pedro Ugarte Valdivia, with "Lightning still", winner of the XV Biennial Tale 2008.

Paper gold will definitely be a benchmark for the recent Peruvian narrative, a showcase that will become reference material and study for anyone wishing to seriously address what happens to the story of Peru in the last three decades. And on another level, is an emblematic work of the corporate social responsibility Petroperú in the field of culture, a title that summarizes and expresses a great project that already has thirty years, the concrete reflection of the first three decades of literary contest important in Peru, and that far from being the end of a chapter, is to continue with added impetus this stimulus to literary creation, thereby achieving transmitir una señal muy positiva de lo que Petroperú ha hecho desde su fundación: mover con su energía a un país, y apoyar con inusual sensibilidad corporativa en nuestro medio proyectos artísticos y editoriales, con el convencimiento de que esta inversión no es un gasto ni derroche, y que marca una diferencia ante empresas incapaces asumir la responsabilidad que les toca ante su comunidad. Esa pequeña diferencia es lo que hace verdaderamente grande a Petroperú.