Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences 2014

Joseph Pérez (Laroque d'Olmes, Ariege, France 1931 - Bordeaux, France 2020), where his parents had moved from Bocairent, Valencia. He studied Literature at the University of Paris and qualified as a Spanish teacher. He began his teaching career in 1956 at the University of Bordeaux III, where he was to take up the Chair in Spanish and Latin American Civilization in 1960.