The Kings will preside on Wednesday the ceremony of the Cervantes 2024 Award that distinguishes the Cantabrian writer Álvaro Pombo (Santander, 1939), who cannot personally pronounce his speech due to his delicate state of health. The assistance to the award -winning act has been doubt until the same morning on Wednesday, after he presented EFE on Tuesday as He felt “fragile”.
In fact, Pombo did not go on Tuesday at the Royal Palace to the traditional lunch offered by the kings to the world of letters on the occasion of the award. However, Santander has attended the award.
Finally, the speech, which will deal with “The fragility” in the author of The Quijotethe writer and historian will read in his name Mario Crespo And in the act the Minister of Culture will also intervene, Ernest greater.
To their 85 yearsthe author of novels such as Against nature (2005) o Santander, 1936 (2023) You will see your career with the top award of the letters in Spanish, endowed with 125.000 euros.
Previously Pombo has received prizes such as Herralde (by The hero of the mansard of Mansard1983), the National Criticism (by The iridized platinum subway1990), the National Narrative (Where women1997), the Nadal (The Hero’s tremor2012) or the planet (Matilda Turpin’s fortune2006), among others.
The jury of Cervanteschaired by the previous winner, Luis Mateo Díezhe has recognized his ability to create “his own literary world that moves” and his “extraordinary creative personality, unique lyric and original narration.”
After the delivery ceremony, Pombo is expected to inauguate, telematically, the traditional Continuous reading of Quijotewhich will take place from six in the afternoon in the Circle of Fine Arts in Madrid.
Also in the afternoon the exhibition will be inaugurated in Alcalá Álvaro Pombo. A narrative of fragility. Tribute to the Cervantes 2024 Awardco -organized by the General Directorate of the Book, Comic and Reading and the University of Alcalá and curated by Mario Crespo.
The Cervantes ceremony is the central act of the Book Daywhich is celebrated on April 23, date that commemorates the death of Cervantes, Shakespeare e Inca Garcilaso de Vega.
Since the Spanish poet was granted for the first time in 1976 Jorge Guillénthe Cervantes Award has recognized half a hundred authors in the Hispanic field, including HispanoPanoano Mario Vargas Llosathe Uruguayan Ida VitaleFrancomexican Elena Poniatowska or the Chilean Nicanor Parra.