The Miguel de Cervantes Prize (Spanish: Premio Miguel de Cervantes), established in 1976, is awarded annually to honour the lifetime achievement of an outstanding writer in the Spanish language. The prize is similar to the Booker Prize, with its candidates from Commonwealth countries, in that it rewards authors from any Spanish-speaking nation. Unlike the Booker Prize, it is awarded only once in recognition of the recipient's overall body of work and is therefore regarded as a sort of Spanish-language Nobel Prize in Literature. The award is named after Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote.
The candidates are proposed by the Language Academies of the Spanish-speaking countries, and the prize is awarded by the Ministry of Culture of Spain. The winner receives a monetary award of 125,000 euros(AU$171,000).
The 2010 winner was 85 year-old Catalan writer Ana Maria Matute, only the thrid woman to have won the award since it's inception - who says Spain still has a chauvinistic streak!
Last year's winner was Mexican poet Jose Emilio Pacheco.
The only two other women to have won the award were Spain's Maria Zambrano in 1988 and Cuba's Dulce Maria Loynaz in 1992.
"I am happy, enormously happy," the 85-year-old told a news conference in Barcelona after the culture ministry announced she had won the award.
"I take it as a recognition - if not of the quality of my work, then at least of the effort and dedication that I have devoted to writing throughout my life."
The author of "First Memory" (Primera memoria (Spanish Edition)
, Soldiers Cry by Night/Los Soldados Lloran De Noche (Discoveries (Latin American Literary Review Pr))
and "The Trap
" was also a finalist for the Prince of Asturias Award for Letters.
, Soldiers Cry by Night/Los Soldados Lloran De Noche (Discoveries (Latin American Literary Review Pr)) and "The Trap" was also a finalist for the Prince of Asturias Award for Letters.Other works:
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