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UPDATE - Ana Blandiana, Michael Ignatieff, Marjane Satrapi and Joan Manuel Serrat are to give speeches at the 2024 Princess of Asturias Awards Ceremony
Marjane Satrapi will attend the official events on Friday
The ceremony will be held on Friday 25th October at the Campoamor Theatre in Oviedo
Writer Ana Blandiana, Princess of Asturias Laureate for Literature; academic and essayist Michael Ignatieff, Princess of Asturias Laureate for Social Sciences; cartoonist, film director and painter Marjane Satrapi, Princess of Asturias Laureate for Communication and Humanities; and singer-songwriter Joan Manuel Serrat, Princess of Asturias Laureate for the Arts, will be giving speeches at the forty-fourth Awards Ceremony.
Marjane Satrapi will only participate in the official events on Friday.
To be held on 25th October at the Campoamor Theatre in Oviedo, the Princess of Asturias Awards Ceremony will be presided over by Their Majesties The King and Queen, with the presence of Their Royal Highnesses The Princess of Asturias and Infanta Sofía of Spain
Simultaneous translation will be available throughout the entire theatre during the ceremony in four languages: English, French, Romanian and Spanish. The ceremony will be accessible to persons with hearing impairment by means of sign language interpretation at the Campoamor Theatre itself, as well as via the Foundation website. The theatre will also be provided with a hearing induction loop system.
LAUREATES
Joan Manuel Serrat, Princess of Asturias Laureate for the Arts; Marjane Satrapi, Princess of Asturias Laureate for Communication and Humanities; Carolina Marín, Princess of Asturias Laureate for Sports; Michael Ignatieff, Princess of Asturias Laureate for Social Sciences; Ana Blandiana, Princess of Asturias Laureate for Literature; and Daniel J. Drucker, Jeffrey M. Friedman, Jens Juul Holst and Svetlana Mojsov, joint Princess of Asturias Laureates for Technical and Scientific Research, have confirmed their attendance at the ceremony. Joel F. Habener, joint Princess of Asturias Laureate for Technical and Scientific Research, will not be attending the Awards Ceremony.
Magnum Photos, Princess of Asturias Award for Concord, will be represented at the ceremony by its current president, Cristina de Middel, who will be accompanied by photographers and former presidents of the agency Thomas Dworzak (2017-2020) and Olivia Arthur (2020-2022).
On behalf of the Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture (OEI), Princess of Asturias Award for International Cooperation, the ceremony will be attended by its Secretary General, Mariano Jabonero Blanco; Alexander Chaverri Carvajal (Costa Rica), first scholarship holder of the Paulo Freire academic mobility programme to obtain a PhD; María Isabel Pires Gomes Guerra (Portugal), head of the Bilingual and Intercultural Border Schools project; and Martín Lorenzo Demilio (Argentina), head of the OEI in Colombia.
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