Manuel Rivas has been awarded by the Ministry of Culture with the National Prize for Spanish Letters for “the extraordinary narrative quality that combines emotional strength and formal beauty and for the solidity of a versatile and coherent career built with sensitivity and defense of historical memory, social responsibility and the Galician language.”
“Few authors on the Spanish literary scene, based on a firm commitment to their language, have managed to achieve such worldwide recognition,” the jury highlighted.
Her work “accompanies her activism, with a pen that, without indoctrination, stirs consciences, induces reflection and stimulates thinking towards the defense of linguistic and cultural plurality and towards gender equality. Manuel Rivas, with a powerful and singular voice, creates literature and, with it, once again places Galician writing on the Olympus of National Letters.
Endowed with 50,000 euros, the prize distinguishes the entire literary work, in any of the Spanish languages, of a Spanish author, whose work is considered an integral part of the body of current Spanish literature.
In its last edition, Cristina Fernández Cubas was recognized, joining a long list of winners, among whom are Luis Landero, Rosa Montero, José María Merino Sánchez, Luis Mateo Díez, Francisca Aguirre and Bernardo Atxaga, among others.
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