The Spanish poet Luis García Montero wins the Carlos Fuentes Worldwide Prize 2024

Mexico Metropolis, June 20 (EFE).- The Ministry of Tradition and the Nationwide Autonomous College of Mexico (UNAM) introduced this Thursday the Spanish poet Luis García Montero as winner of the Carlos Fuentes Worldwide Award 2024 to literary creation within the Spanish language.

The jury, made up of the writers Beatriz Espejo, Rosa Montero, Élmer Mendoza, Fernando Fernández and Elena Poniatowska, determined by majority to award the award to Montero for his “in depth profession and contributions to literature within the Spanish language as a poet and essayist”.

Luis García Montero, author, poet and critic, was born in Granada (Spain) in 1958. He’s a professor of Spanish Literature on the college of his hometown and since 2018 he has directed the Cervantes Institute.

Amongst his books of poems we will spotlight ‘And Now You are from the Brooklyn Bridge’ (1980), ‘Diario Complicit’ (1987), ‘Fully Friday’ (1998), ‘The Intimacy of the Serpent’ (2003), ‘Ballad within the demise of poetry’ (2016) and ‘One yr and three months’ (2022), amongst many different works.

From 1994 to 2021 he shared his life with the author Almudena Grandes, who was widowed in 2021.

Montero turns into the eighth particular person to win the award after Mario Vargas Llosa (2012), Sergio Ramírez (2014), Eduardo Lizalde (2016), Luis Goytisolo (2018), Luisa Valenzuela (2019), Diamela Eltit (2020), Margo Glantz (2022) and Elena Poniatowska (2023).

The Andalusian author will obtain as a prize the equal of 125,000 US {dollars}, a diploma, in addition to a sculpture designed by the visible artist Vicente Rojo.

The Carlos Fuentes Worldwide Prize was established in 2012 in reminiscence of the Mexican author to whom it owes its identify and creator of classics similar to ‘The Most Clear Area’ and ‘The Loss of life of Artemio Cruz’.

Initially, its periodicity was biannual; Nevertheless, as of 2019 it’s annual on account of an settlement between the federal Ministry of Tradition, UNAM and journalist Silvia Lemus, Fuentes’ widow.