UCLA International Institute, February 8, 2016 — Verónica Cortínez, director of the UCLA Center for Southern Cone Studies and professor in the department of Spanish and Portuguese, has been awarded the oldest and most prestigious literary prize in Chile: the Premio Municipal de Literatura 2015. Her two-volume book with co-author Manfred Engelbert of the Georg-August Universität Göttingen, Evolución en libertad: El cine chileno de fines de los sesenta,* won the award in the essay category.