Juan Goytisolo morning Cervantes receives award from … – Terra Colombia

The Spanish writer Juan Goytisolo receive the Cervantes Prize, considered the Nobel of Hispanic literature, from King Philip VI, for “its work in the investigation of language and its commitment to intercultural dialogue” tomorrow.

This Cervantes prize will be the first to deliver the Spanish king as monarch, although on two previous occasions, in the editions of 2011 and 2012 did replacing his father when he was convalescing.

And also be the first time that the award does not go dressed in tuxedo at the awards ceremony in the auditorium of the University of Alcalá de Henares. “I’m not putting tuxedo. Set disguise I put a hijab. It is absurd that someone with 84 years disguises.’ll Go dressed normally,” said the winner.

Juan Goytisolo (Barcelona, ​​1931), who says he feels in these acts as “a stowaway on an ocean liner,” read a brief but intense speech, because he said that “try to say much with few words “.

So three and a half pages the author of “Hallmarks” talk about the harsh difficulties that spent the author of Don Quixote and the current world situation and Spain.

Goytisolo is considered an “interlocutor between European and Islamic culture.” Lives in Marrakech since the eighties, but his steps were earlier in Paris and later in the United States, where he taught in California, Boston and New York.

A nomadic and universal life is also reflected in their literature. Carlos Fuentes regarded him as “one of the best writers in the world,” and he ranked as one “anomalous as all creative” and “Cervantes nationality”.

Born into a Basque-Cuban family, John is the brother of poet José Agustín Goytisolo, who died in 1999 and also writer and academic Luis Goytisolo

The author of more than fifty titles, mostly translated into English, Juan Goytisolo cultivates novels, essays, travel writing, stories and memories. A creation always marked by commitment and freedom.

The Cervantes prize of 125,000 euros ($ 134,180), is awarded by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports Spanish and is the highest recognition to the creative work of Spanish and Latin American writers whose work has contributed to significantly enrich the literary heritage in Spanish language.

Last year’s winner was the Mexican Elena Poniatowska and previous editions it received the Chilean Nicanor Parra, the Mexican Octavio Paz, Carlos Fuentes and Jose Emilio Pacheco, the Argentine Jorge Luis Borges, the Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa, the Cuban Guillermo Cabrera Infante or Spanish Miguel Delibes, Camilo José Cela, María Zambrano, Juan Marse and Ana Maria Matute.