The jury of the Spanish Literature Prize ‘Miguel de Cervantes‘, corresponding to 2023, has chosen Luis Mateo Diez as the winner of this year’s edition. The prize is worth 125,000 euros and is the most prestigious award in literature in Spanish.
Last year, the Cervantes awarded the Venezuelan writer Rafael Cadenas and the previous one to the Uruguayan author Cristina Peri Rossi. Previously, two Spanish writers were awarded consecutively —Francisco Brines (2020) and Joan Margaret (2019)– and two Latin Americans –the Uruguayan Ida Vitale (2018) and the Nicaraguan Sergio Ramirez (2017)–, breaking the usual alternation of the award.
The record of recent years is completed with the names of Eduardo Mendoza (2016), Fernando del Paso (2015), Juan Goytisolo (2014), Elena Poniatowska (2013), José Manuel Caballero Bonald (2012) and Nicanor Parra (2011), among others.
In 1976, Jorge Guillén, one of the greatest figures of the Generation of ’27, received the first of these awards and, since then, there have been 42 other winners: 20 Spaniards and another 22 Hispanic Americans. Only in 1979 were there two winners, when it was awarded ex aequo to Gerardo Diego and Jorge Luis Borges.
Source: Lasexta
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