The Spanish writer Eduardo Mendoza said today that the winner of the Cervantes Prize 2016, which was granted today, is “a journey’s end happy”, but noted that “that’s not to say that you will not do anything more.”
said Mendoza during the press conference held at the Cervantes Institute in London, a city in which you reside and where you surprised by the news of the award “as he walked down the street.”
your 73 years and 15 novels, two books of stories, two plays and four essays on his belt, Mendoza made with the “nobel” of the letters in Spanish, which he valued for his “importance” and “the time comes”, as an “end of cycle”.
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The writer explained that the good reception that had her first novel, “The truth about the case Savolta”, which was made with the Critics Award in 1976, was “charged with responsibilities”.
“I have lived fifty years of thinking that all the hopes that were deposited in me would be frustrated, but, now, to receive this award, I see that things have gone more or less well”, he said.
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The barcelona wished to clarify that it does not reside in the british capital by the political situation of Catalonia, where he said that he has never had “any problem neither personal nor official”, but because he considers London his “shelter”.
Also stressed that it did not believe that it would be “a rarity” the fact of being Catalan and to write in Spanish: “If I were to give a prize to all the catalans who write in Spanish would be exhausted the budget of the Ministry of Culture,” he said in a humorous way.
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when Asked about what moments of his career came to head after know -by a call from the Spanish minister of Education, Culture and Sport, Iñigo Méndez de Vigo – who had received the Cervantes, Mendoza he recalled when he wrote the novel “No news from Gurb” (1991).
“I don’t know how or why I wrote it,” he said, before adding that it was perhaps “the moment the summit and most unexpected” of his literary career.
“it Is difficult to find someone in Spain who, for pleasure or disgust, you have not read the novel,” he said.
Also stressed as one of his most important books, “The mystery of the crypt haunted” (1979) because “it opened the door to a kind of literature more “street”.
the jury of The prize, worth 125,000 euros (132.500$ ) – the amount that surprised Mendoza, who admitted that he did not know the amount-expressed in the judgment that the writer “continues to be the scene of the tradition cervantina”.
Something with which the writer acknowledged to be in agreement, although to consider the phrase “a bit pedantic”. But he acknowledged that the creator of “don Quixote” had a “great influence” on him.
About the humorous style that is prevalent in all his work, the Catalan mentioned that the humor is something that is in your DNA, and is “a way of being in the world”, but defended that it did not believe “that use humor suppose to leave aside the pursuit of excellence”.
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