Overview

• The 2025 Premio Jaime Sabines/Gatien Lapointe was presented at the Seminario de Cultura Mexicana’s Mexico City headquarters by president Felipe Leal
• The honor includes a diploma, a ceremonial venera as a Distinguished Member of the SCM and a 50,000 peso cash prize
• Jurors Paul Bélanger, Monique Deland and Jean-Marc Desgent praised Magaña’s book as an ambitious hybrid that fuses poetry, philosophy and metaphysics through alternating verse and prose
• Magaña’s collection centers on the apple as a symbol of faith, mortality and myth, drawing on biblical, alchemical and historical references
• Born in Paraíso, Tabasco in 1961, Francisco Magaña co-founded Ediciones Monte Carmelo and has translated key French thinkers while gaining acclaim as one of Mexico’s foremost Catholic poets