jury Spanish Language and Literature Miguel de Cervantes Prizecorresponding to the year 2022, poet Rafael Cadenas of Venezuela as winner from this year’s edition. The prize is worth 125,000 Euros and is the most prestigious award for Spanish letters.
The jury stressed “adequate and comprehensive literary work,” as Culture and Sports Minister Miquel Iceta explained, and recognized Cadenas’ importance as a creator since they added it.He made poetry his raison d’etre and brought it to the pinnacle of excellence in Spanish.. His work is one of the most important and demonstrates the transformative power of the word when language is pushed to the limit of its creative possibilities.
Likewise, the poet “distills his dazzling essence from the words, placing them in the dual realm of sleep and wakefulness, to make his poems an expression of existence itself and the universe.it also puts them in a mystical and mundane dimension”.
As Iceta explains, it’s still unknown if Rafael Cadenas will be able to claim the award for mentioning “challenges” given that he’s 92 years old, so it will be the fourth year the winner won’t win. Go to the Alcalá auditorium to receive the award. Cristina Peri Rossi was unable to attend in 2021 as she was ill and the previous two years due to the pandemic.
Regarding the winner, Minister He argued for the importance of this award because “it is given regardless of whether the winner can participate, which is very important in other awards.”
Cervantes was awarded to Uruguayan writer Cristina Peri Rossi last year. Previously, two Spanish writers—Francisco Brines (2020) and Joan Margarit (2019)—and two Latin Americans—Uruguayan Ida Vitale (2018) and Nicaraguan Sergio Ramírez (2017)—have won consecutive awards, breaking the usual cycle of the award. .
The winners of recent years are Eduardo Mendoza (2016), Fernando del Paso (2015), Juan Goytisolo (2014), Elena Poniatowska (2013), José Manuel Caballero Bonald (2012) and Nicanor Parra (2011), among others.
The first of these awards was given to Jorge Guillén, one of the leading names of the 27 Generation, in 1976. and since then there have been 41 more winners: 20 Hispanic and 21 Hispanic American. Only in 1979 were there two winners when ex aequo was given. Gerardo Diego and Jorge Luis Borges.
Along with Iceta, María José Gálvez, general director of the Directorate General for the Promotion of Books and Reading, was present. also created by the Costa Rican Language Academy by Albino Chacón Gutiérrez; Esther Borrego Gutiérrez on behalf of the Conference of Presidents of Spanish Universities (CRUE); Mónica Lavín Maroto on behalf of the Association of Latin American Universities (UDUAL); Raquel Caleya Caña of the Cervantes Institute; Juan Casamayor Vizcaíno, on behalf of the Directorate General for the Promotion of Books and Reading, Ministry of Culture and Sports; Francisco Javier Galán Gamero on behalf of the Spanish Federation of Journalists’ Associations (FAPE); Doraliza Jiménez Villarroel, on behalf of the President of the Federation of Latin American Journalists (FELAP); and Lucas Torres Armendáriz on behalf of the International Union of Hispanists.
In the 2021 edition, award-winning author Cristina Peri Rossi excused her participation.
biography
Rafael Cadenas (Barquisimeto, Venezuela, 1930) 1960 Venezuelan generation. He was part of the Tabla Redonda group, along with Arnaldo Acosta Bello, Jesús Guédez, Ángel Eduardo Acevedo, Darlo Lancini, José Barroeta and Sanoja Hernández. He is a translator of English poetry, a university professor, and has extensive essay work in Spanish, with titles such as ‘Around Language’ and ‘Notes on St. John the Crusade and Mysticism’, which are considered references to contemporary literary thought.
Currently active, Cadenas is the author of more than twenty international resonance books, including ‘Cantos initials’ (1946), ‘Una isla’ (1958), ‘Los Cuadernos del destierro’ (1960, 2001), poetry. ‘Defeat’ (1963), ‘Falsas maneuvers’ (1966), ‘Intemperie’ (1977), ‘Memorial’ (1977) ‘In Love’ (1983), ‘Said’ (1992), ‘Gestiones’ (1992), ‘ Anthology’ (1958-1993, 1996, 1999), ‘Aşık’ (2002), ‘Selected Poems’ (2004, 2006, 2009), ‘Workshop at the Side Door’ (2005), ‘Open Envelope’ (2012), ‘Basho and other topics’ (2016) or ‘Answers’ (2018).
Rafael Cadenas’ poetic and experimental works include the San Juan de la Cruz Prize (1992), the Mozarteum Foundation Prize in Venezuela (1993), the FIL Prize for Literature in Romance Languages (2012), the Federico García Lorca International Prize for Poetry (2015), Various awards in his country, including the Reina Sofia Ibero-American Poetry Award (2018) and an honorary doctorate from the Central University of Venezuela and Andrés Bello from the Venezuelan Academy. Language, among others.
Source: Informacion
