Álvaro Pombo: «Cervantes did not win any prize, Cervantes was a pringao»

Álvaro Pombo (Santander, 1939) arrived to the RAE in a wheelchair, dressed in a suit and sheltered under the blue hat that has become a symbol in recent years (old age is cold) and sporting the same sense of humor as always. “I have arrived by miracle through DANA,” he said, and then he began to talk and celebrate the Cervantes prize: “It is true that a prize like this, a beautiful prize, makes one feel a little why Cervantes never had a prize.” , not one. Cervantes had the second part of ‘Don Quixote’ plagiarized and was imprisoned in Algiers. He was a fool [y ríe]. A pringao in the sense that we say now: a poor thing. He just had the talent, the grace, and the humor, that kind of good humor.

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Bruno Pardo Porto

O Grove, 1992. Journalist. Expert in Everything and Nothing. Graduate in Humanities and Audiovisual Communication. He likes books, movies and other things to eat. In ABC culture from the beginning.