Kings Felipe and Letizia give Álvaro Pombo the Cervantes Award in Alcalá de Henares

The Kings Felipe and Letizia have delivered this Wednesday, the Book Day, the Miguel de Cervantes award to the writer Álvaro Pombo, for “his extraordinary creative personality, his unique lyric and his original narration. At his remote level as a poet and essayist, he joins being one of the great novelists of our language that investigates the human condition from the affective perspectives of some deep and contradictory feelings.”

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Dressed in mourning due to the death of Pope Francis, the Kings have arrived at the Paraninfo of the University of Alcalá and have greeted the honoree with great affection. After that, they have held their place in the gallery while the national anthem sounded. Then, the monarch has opened the session that has begun with a speech by the Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun.

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Subsequently, Don Felipe and Doña Letizia have risen from their seats and have delivered recognition to the writer and have congratulated him with great affection, while the king placed his chair to receive the applause of the audience.

This award, the most important in the Castilian language, is granted by the Ministry of Culture and is endowed with 125,000 euros and has been preceded on the eve by a lunch to the world of the letters that the kings offered on Tuesday in the Royal Palace of Madrid.

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The jury has awarded this author for his great level as a poet and essayist who joins being one of the great novelists of our language that investigates the human condition from the affective perspectives of deep and contradictory feelings. “In addition, the court has indicated that the Pombo creations are” sample of the world through the construction of a language in which the deformations of reality appear reflected under the disguise of the disguise of the disguise of the disguise. of humor. In its prose, orality is reflected in the will of a style that aspires to ‘I write as I speak’ Valdesiano. Álvaro Pombo has created what defines great writers, an imperishable and essential literary world that moves and conduele. ”