This year the award for Foreigner of the year, – the Guiri Del Año – fell to the French eye surgeon, Jean Louis Dounne. Mr. Testis and Mikel Urmeneta handed over the award on Kukuxumusu Guiri Day, the day when the annual celebration is help during Sanfermin. Lots of previous winners also attended the event this year.
The Frenchman, Jean-Louis Douenne, was today given the X Guiri de Sanfermin Award, which is annually bestowed by Kukuxumusu to some long-standing foreign visitor or other who comes to Sanfermin. The firm aims in this way to give recognition to the contribution of the visitors to the fiestas which they live with a passion and intensity every bit as strong as the local people do.
The North-American who resides in Paris, Catherine Donnell today received the IX Premio Guiri Del Año Award which is handed out each year by Kukuxumusu in recognition of the role that foreigners who live the fiestas with passion and intensity add to the Sanfermin fiestas. The award was handed over at the Europa restaurant coinciding with the celebration of Guiri Day. This special day has been organized by Kukuxumusu for the past 15 years in order to pay homage to all the foreigners who visit Sanfermin.
Catherine Donnell, a 52 year old North-American was born in Santa Fé (New México-USA). In Paris, this past weekend she was awarded the trophy of IX Guiri del Año de Sanfermin 2012 by Koldo Aiestaran, one of the founder-members of Kukuxumusu, in recognition of her unremitting visits to Sanfermin. This award has been handed out each year ever since 2004 by the Pamplona firm in recognition of the contribution made by the foreigners who come to Sanfermin fiestas and who held to make Sanfermin what it is.
Kukuxumusu celebrates Guiri Day, a day of homage to all their foreign visitors, and it has done so by handing over the VIII Guiri del Año Award to the North-American writer, John Patrick Hemingway, grandson of Nobel Prizewinner, Ernest Hemingway, who died exactly fifty years ago.
Kukuxumusu celebrated Guiri Day 2010, where the foreign visitors take the front seat in recognition for their fidelity and passion for the Sanfermin fiestas. The center -piece of the homage to the foreigners was a lunch where the VII edition of the Guiri del Año Award was handed over to the Japanese photographer, Chiyoshi Sugawara.
Kukuxumusu celebrated its “Guiri” day of Sanfermin 2009 by acknowledging Frank Taylor, an Englishman from Dogmersfield, as foreigner of the year. Taylor was handed over the award by Mikel Urmeneta, founder-member and creative director at Kukuxumusu, when they celebrated Guiri day at the Europa restaurant in Pamplona.
Moroccan, Massaoud Sbai el Idrissi was handed over the award by Mikel Urmeneta, creative director at Kukuxumusu. This award which the firm makes every year wishes to acknowledge the particular contribution made by some foreigner each year to the fiestas.
Kukuxumusu each year to a foreigner recognized for his or her special predilection for the Sanfermin fiestas. The Award was handed over by two founder-members of Kukuxumusu, Mikel Urmeneta and Koldo Aiestaran. The event was attended by a large number of habitual Germans who come to the Sanfermin fiestas.
Next Friday, 23rd of June the III “Foreigner of the Year” award will take place in Storvik, Sweden. This award is granted by the Kukuxumusu tee shirt company in homage to the many foreign visitors who come annually to Iruñea/Pamplona for the Sanfermin fiestas. On this occasion the award-winner is Lars Ingvar Jungefors, a member of the Los Suecos Peña, and a veteran visitor to Pamplona over the past 35 years.
