Havana, Oct 28 (Prensa Latina) Writer, critic and painter Pedro de Oraá holds today the National Fine Arts Award 2015, granted each year in Cuba to an outstanding creator for the lifetime achievement.
Considered the highest prize given to visual arts exponents in this island, the award included Manuel Hernandez, Jose Manuel Fors, Alexis Leyva (Kcho), Jose Angel Toirac, and Eduardo Roca (Choco) among the nominees this time.

Zaida del Rio, Juan Moreira, Rocio Garcia, Roberto Salas, Alberto Lescay, Rafael Zarza, Jose Antonio Choy, Lesbia VentDumois and Ernesto Rancaño, according to the newspaper Granma, are also on the list.

This time, the jury was chaired by last year's National Award, Lazaro Saavedra.

Pedro de Oraá (1931) studied at the San Alejandro Academy in 1952, and joined "Los Once" in 1956, one of the eminent Cuban vanguard groups.

Collections from the National Fine Arts Museum in Havana, the Museum of Modern Arts in New York City, the Centre Pompidou in France, and the Ludwig Museum in Germany, host his abstractionist works.