2023-11-08 06:24:07
Spanish writer Luis Mateo Díez receives this year’s Cervantes Prize. This was announced by Spanish Culture Minister Miquel Iceta on Tuesday in Madrid. The Cervantes Prize is endowed with 125,000 euros and is considered the most important literary award in the Spanish-speaking world.
The jury described the 82-year-old writer from León as “one of the great storytellers of the Spanish language and heir to the spirit of Cervantes, creator of imaginary worlds and territories.” The Cervantes Prize will be awarded on April 23, 2024.
The jury also emphasized the winner’s “unique prose”, whose “own, sophisticated style of great originality, in which expressionistic, parodic or grotesque humor predominates”. Only a few of Díez’s works have been translated into German.
The award, named after “Don Quixote” author Miguel de Cervantes, has been presented annually since 1976 by the Spanish Ministry of Culture. Previous winners include Jorge Luis Borges (1979), Octavio Paz (1981), Ernesto Sábato (1984), Carlos Fuentes (1987), Mario Vargas Llosa (1994), Juan Goytisolo (2014), Fernando del Paso (2015) and Eduardo Mendoza (2016).
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