A Hotel de la Reconquista, in Oviedo, akwai jijiyoyi da yawa yau da safiyar yau bugun XXXVI na kyautar Gimbiya Asturias ta 2016 don Haruffa, waɗanda marubutan ƙasashe 16 suka zaɓa zuwa (daga China zuwa Argentina).
A ƙarshe, ambulaf ɗin ya bayyana cewa wanda ya ci nasarar shi ne Richard Ford, wani marubucin Ba'amurke ɗan shekara 72 sananne ga labaran da ke haifar da a haɓakawa ungiyar Yankee ta zama cikakke a cikin littattafai kamar A Piece of My Heart ko kuma 'Yar Jaridar Wasanni, tana aiki tare da bayanan rayuwar mutum.
Abin fasaha na yin jinkiri
An haife shi a 1944 a Jackson (Amurka), Ford yaro ne mai saukin kai wanda ke fuskantar rashin maki da rashin karatun karatu. A zahiri, ya fara karatu tun yana ɗan shekara 18, kodayake fahimtar karatun nasa ta sa ya gane a lokuta da dama cewa "ba zai iya karanta duk littattafan da yake so ba" saboda jan kunnen sa na ƙuruciya.
Koyaya, tabbacin cewa lokaci bai yi ba ya zo lokacin da Ford, ya yi farin ciki game da wannan sabuwar duniya ta wasiƙu, ya yanke shawarar zama marubuci, maimakon mai ba da labari game da wahalhalu da wasannin kwaikwayo na al'ummar Amurka wanda marubucin ya bayyana a farkon aikinsa, Pangaren zuciyata (1976), misalin littafin labarin aikata laifi wanda aka saita akan Kogin Mississippi, da kuma Chanarshen Zamani (1981), wanda ya ta'allaka ne akan tsohon soja na Vietnam.
Bayan nazarin rubuce-rubucen kirkire-kirkire, ya sadaukar da kansa ga yin rubuce-rubuce don wallafe-wallafen wasanni, kasancewar kin yarda da mashahurin Wasannin Wasannin da aka Bayyana wanda ya ingiza shi ya sake sarrafa kansa cikin almara. A wannan lokacin zai buga El journalista deporte, ya mai da hankali kan marubuci wanda ya yanke shawarar yin aiki a matsayin ɗan jaridar wasanni, wanda ba da daɗewa ba ya zama aikin da aka fi sani da shi.
Duk waɗannan labaran, waɗanda suke ƙoƙari su cire mafi sha'awar sha'awar wannan al'ummar ta Arewacin Amurka da aka gani ta idanun marigayi amma ƙaddarar Ford, shine dalilin da ya sa a safiyar yau marubucin ya karɓi Yuro dubu 50 na Gimbiya Asturias Award, lambar yabo, sassakawar Joan Miró da yabo ta wani alkalin da ya zargi hukuncin da ta yanke a kan wani aiki "wanda ya sa Ford ta zama mai bayar da labarai na zamani kuma, a lokaci guda, babban marubucin tarihin mosaic na labaran giciye wanda ya kasance al'ummar Amurka."
Shin kun karanta wani abu daga Ford?
Sannu Alberto.
Yaya labarin Richard Ford yake da ban sha'awa. Sunan mahaifa Ba'amurke, af. Idan, lokacin da yake yaro ko saurayi, suka gaya wa iyayen marubucin, maƙwabta da abokai cewa zai sami wannan kyautar, da sun yi dariya da babbar murya. Saboda haka, ba za a taɓa cewa komai ba. Wani lokaci abin da ba zai yiwu ba ko wanda ba zai yiwu ba yana faruwa.
Ban taɓa karanta komai daga Ford ba. A zahiri, ba ya zama kamar komai a wurina.
Shin na baku labarin kwas na MOOC akan Gabriel García Márquez?
Daga Oviedo, gaisuwa a fannin adabi.
PS: "ford" a Turanci yana nufin "wade." A nasa yanayin, ana iya cewa ya yi nasarar shawo kan matsalolinsa da harshe kuma ba a ɗauke shi da halin yanzu na dyslexia da ƙarancin maki.