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The Miguel de Cervantes Prize (Spanish: Premio de Literatura en Lengua Castellana Miguel de Cervantes) is awarded annually to honour the lifetime achievement of an outstanding writer in the Spanish language.
Cervantes Prize, literary award established in 1975 by the Spanish Ministry of Culture; the prize was first awarded the following year. It is the most prestigious and remunerative award given for Spanish-language literature. The Cervantes Prize is presented to an author whose Castilian-language.
YearRecipientCountry Of Origin2023Luis Mateo DíezSpain2022Rafael CadenasVenezuela2021Uruguay2020Francisco BrinesSpain- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
May 4, 2017 · The Premio Miguel de Cervantes is the highest recognition that a Spanish-language writer can achieve. It is an acknowledgement of those whose work has notably enriched Spanish literary heritage. Thus, this prize recognises the career of an outstanding writer.
The Cervantes, the most important prize for literature written in the Spanish language, was created by the Ministry of Culture in 1975 for Spanish and Hispanic American writers, with winners being...
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It was instituted in 1976 and is considered the most important literary award in the Spanish language, despite not being the highest amount. It is intended to distinguish the overall work of a Spanish-language author whose contribution to the heritage Hispanic culture has been decisive. It is endowed with 125,000 euros and takes its name from Migue...
The candidates for the Miguel de Cervantes Award are proposed by the plenary session of the Royal Spanish Academy, by the Language Academies of Spanish-speaking countries and by the winners in past editions. Every year around thirty candidates present themselves, among whom only five or six have a real chance of obtaining the award[citation require...
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Previously there was an unwritten rule, custom or tendency, to alternate the awards between writers of Spanish and American nationality. Although there have been exceptions when Spanish writers or American writers have been awarded prizes for two consecutive years, this circumstance has never occurred for three consecutive years; and in the total calculation until 2022, half of the awards have been for Spanish writers. The other half has been distributed among writers from ten Latin American...
The Miguel de Cervantes Prize enjoys enormous prestige and is often equated to the Nobel Prize for Literature in the field of the Spanish language, assuming in many cases the definitive consecration of the award-winning authors, especially at a popular level. All the winners have generally enjoyed the recognition of literary and academic critics, m...
Apr 23, 2014 · Mexican writer and journalist Elena Poniatowska has received the most important award for literature in the Spanish language, the Cervantes prize. King Juan Carlos of Spain made the...
The Miguel de Cervantes Prize is the highest award of Hispanic literature. It is given to a writer in honour of their literary work every 23 April, the anniversary of the death of the author of Don Quixote of La Mancha. Created in 1974, this prize was effectively awarded at the 1976 edition.
