In jeopardy is the winner of the Cervantes Prize – The Universal

In Spain a war is waged between the ministry of Culture and Finance Ministry and Public Administrations. Cuts to the cultural budget, negative to reduce the VAT on entertainment and the opposition to create a Law of Patronage appropriate to the times, are some of the reasons that have been tensioned the relationship between the two instances.

however, the alarms on the dependence of cultural lit when the Treasury blocked the money to deliver the winner of the Cervantes Prize, the most prestigious award of the letters in Spanish on a global level and endowed with 125 thousand euros, as the national awards.

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“The money is, but we can’t get him to have the account blocked,” said a source Culture to The Country. according to that diary, members of the jury for failure of the Cervantes and the national awards are held every year between July and October. But on this occasion they received a letter which tells them that the appointments are suspended until further notice.

The Spanish newspaper makes clear that not all of the awards juries have been advised of this situation, which will let you know escalonamente, being the last of the Cervantes Prize.

“For reasons beyond our control, we are forced to postpone the meeting of the jury of the National Prize of Literature in the form of Narrative, which is scheduled for the 18th of October. This postponement is due to the Order of Year-end of July 16, 2016, which prevents the execution of expenditure not committed to prior to July 20,” said the letter quoted by The Nation.

Despite the fact that since February is relizó the announcement of the prizes, until the moment the Treasury has not provided the budget for the same. In the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport of Spain was assured that it will not be given back the award and that it is “working on creating an exception that should be discussed within the Council of Ministers,” he told The Nation a source from the Ministry of Culture.

Six mexicans have won the Cervantes Prize: Octavio Paz, Carlos Fuentes, Sergio Pitol, José Emilio Pacheco, Elena Poniatowska, and Fernando del Paso, award-winning in the edition 2015.

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