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Mario Vargas Llosa, Prince of Asturias Litereature, has died
Join laureate in 1986, together with Rafael Lapesa Melgar, for “his extraordinary gifts as a story-teller, the wealth and variety of his work, filled with the spirit of creative freedom and his mastery of the language”
Mario Vargas Llosa, 1986 Prince of Asturias Litereature, has died.
The Jury decided to bestow the Award for “his extraordinary gifts as a story-teller, the wealth and variety of his work, filled with the spirit of creative freedom and his mastery of the language”.
The Jury was chaired by Joaquín Calvo Sotelo and made of Carlos Luis Álvarez, Luis Maria Ansón, Jaime Campmany, Álvaro Galmés, Pablo García Baena, Fernando Lázaro Carreter, José María Martínez Cachero, Fernando Onega, and Gonzalo Torrente Ballester and Emilio Alarcos Llorach (secretary of the jury).
The Awards Ceremony, which took place on 22nd November, was presided over by HM King Felipe VI, then Prince of Asturias. Besides the address by His Majesty, the speeches at the ceremony were given by Juan Antonio Samaranch, Mario Vargas Llosa and Pedro Masaveu, then President of the Princess of Asturias Foundation.
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