The Cervantes Prize ceremony takes place every year on April 23, the day of the book, in commemoration of the death of the author of The Quijote. The stage: the Paraninfo of the University of Alcalá de Henares. Álvaro Pombo (Santander, 85 years old), awarded this year, where he arrived at 11.30 in the morning, after the possible doubts about his presence. On the eve of the ceremony, in the afternoon, he declared that “there was something better” and “would do everything possible” to be present. What is certain is that he will not read the speech: the writer and historian Mario Crespo, one of the greatest specialists of his work, will do so instead. “His situation is of great fragility and this time it is to go,” Crespo said to the Efe agency. Just, the speech will concern the notion of fragility in Cervantes. They had already chosen the jacket for the occasion and a black tie for the mourning of Pope Francis.
It is not a unique case: in recent years the writer Cristina Peri-Assi, assigned in 2021, Cecilia Roth Mandata actress To read the speech and receive the prize. Francisco Bires, Cervantes 2020 Award, received his prize in his home in Oliva, Valencia, to whom the kings moved. There were moments of pandemic distances, The prize was given between the wicker and orange chairs.
The Cervantes jury has highlighted “its extraordinary creative personality, its consolidated text and its original narrative”, and also stressed that in its creations “it shows the world through the construction of a language in which the deformations of reality are reflected under the disguise of irony and humor”. Equipped with 125,000 euros, the Miguel de Cervantes Castian Language Literature prize is the climax that will fulfill a writer’s career. It is granted every year by the Ministry of Culture to the proposal of Association of Academies of the Language.
Among the novels of Álvaro Pombo outside The tremor of the hero (Nadal Award, 2012), The ceiling (José Manuel Lara Foundation Award, 2001), Matilda Turpin’s fortune (Planet Award, 2006), Where women (National Narrative Prize, 1996) or MANSARD MANSARD Hero (Herralde Prize, 1983). In poetry, their primordial vocation is distinguished from Protocols (1973) up to The statements of the protocol (2009). In addition to its literary facet, Pombo has had its foray into politics, linked to the party of the progress of progress y Democracia, today. In the 2008 elections he led the Upyd list to the Senate for the Madrid community, a candidacy in which he repeated in 2011.
In his latest edition the Cervantes had rewarded a narrator, Luis Mateo Díez, After an unexpected five poor series: Rafael Cadenas, Cristina Peri Rossi, Francisco Brinsi, Joan Margarit and Ida Vitale, who received the prize in 2018. This time it is up to Álvaro Pombo, who, as Manuel Vicent said, is a singular writer, who is a poet and who is also a poem: here it is a writer whose transcenda personality for his best book is a single book “. You can’t see it at the ceremony.
