The Catalan writer Juan Goytisolo, Thursday received the Cervantes Prize for literature and summarized in a brief acceptance speech several allusions to his literary references that joined a load of social criticism.
Goytisolo, 84, condemned the recent draft finding the bones of Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote, who died in 1616. The operation hides a desire marketer said Spanish author, who asked to inquire into the life and episodes still obscure de Cervantes, the most universal writer of Hispanic literature.
The writer reminded authors such as Gabriel García Márquez, Damaso Alonso and Portuguese Fernando Pessoa. He pleaded skeptical recognition, despite being the most prestigious of the letters in Spanish. And true to form denounced corruption, unemployment, evictions, the drama of immigration and child poverty suffered by Spain after nearly a decade of economic crisis.
King Philip VI, accompanied by his wife Queen Letizia, presented the award to Goytisolo in a ceremony held as every year at the University of Alcalá de Henares, just outside Madrid.
Goytisolo is considered one of the most important writers of the post-war novel civil (1936-1939). Among his works stand out titles like The island and the trilogy Hallmarks, Claiming the Count Julian and John Lackland.
Assays political issues, intercultural and language usage in the literature have been another passion of the author. Goytisolo first person lived in the wars in Bosnia and Chechnya between 1993 and 1996. The stories he wrote about the conflict and other journalistic contributions were collected in books bird that fouls its own nest and against the sacred forms.
Spanish happens in the honors Mexican journalist Elena Poniatowska, so he turned to fulfill that unwritten rule that alternates between a Latin American author Cervantes and other Spanish.
Cervantes, created in 1975, recognizes the figure of a writer who, in all his work, has helped to enrich the Hispanic literary legacy on either side of the Atlantic.
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