He Cantabrian writer Álvaro Pombo has been awarded this Tuesday with the 2024 Cervantes Prizethe highest recognition of literature in Spanish and endowed with 125,000 euros, according to the jury’s ruling, made public by the Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun.
Pombo (Santander, 1939) has been recognized with this distinction for its ability to create “your own literary world that moves” and for its “extraordinary creative, lyrical and singular prose”, reflects the decision of the jury, chaired by the previous winner, Luis Mateo Díez.
“In addition to his very notable level as a poet and essayist, he is one of the great novelists of our language, who investigates the human condition from the emotional perspectives of deep and contradictory feelings,” they add.
They remember that, “in his creations, he shows the world through the construction of a language in which the deformations of reality appear reflected under the guise of irony and humor.”
And they also consider that “in his prose, orality is reflected in the will of a style that aspires to the Waldesian ‘I write as I speak’.”
“Álvaro Pombo has created what defines great writers, his own imperishable and essential literary world that moves and hurts,” concludes the award jury.
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