Cervantes Prize
The Cervantes Prize, Spanish Premio Miguel de Cervantes or Premio Cervantes, is the most important literary prize in the Spanish- speaking world and has a similar reputation there as the international Nobel Prize for Literature . The award is named after Miguel de Cervantes , the author of Don Quixote . The winner will be announced towards the end of the year; the prize will then be awarded the following year on the anniversary of Cervantes' death, April 23, in his birthplace Alcalá de Henares .
The award does not refer to a single work, but to the life's work of the honored author.
The candidates are nominated by the national language academies of the Spanish-speaking countries ( Academias de la Lengua de los países de habla hispana ); The prize is awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Culture. The prize was first advertised in 1976, during the transition period (the change from dictatorship to democracy in Spain). Traditionally, a Spaniard and a Hispanic-American are named alternately as the award winner; since 1996, this unwritten rule has only been deviated from by the 2018 award winner. In total, only five women received the Cervantes Prize (as of 2018).
The Cervantes Prize was originally endowed with 90,000 euros; In 2008 the prize money was increased to 125,000 euros.
Award winners
Web links
- Premio "Miguel de Cervantes" on the website of the Spanish Ministry of Culture
Individual evidence
- ^ Walter Haubrich : Spain's literary enterprise. In: Walther L. Bernecker: Spain today. Vervuert Verlag 2008, ISBN 978-3-86527-418-2 , p. 465 ( on Google Books )
- ^ Dpa: Seeing the world like a child: Cervantes Prize for poet Ida Vitale . In: The time . April 23, 2019, ISSN 0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed April 24, 2019]).
- ↑ Juan Marse receives the 'Cervantes Prize': Catalans awarded the literature prize , article on news.at