The King gives the Cervantes to Álvaro Pombo of whom he praises “his goodness and his truth”

The speech was handwritten by Pombo himself and later delivered to Mario Crespo, who has read it at the ceremony.

"Now no one is mourning for his honor, neither for the honour of Spain, nor for the honor of the Tato", laments the writer Santanderino in a speech he wrote years ago in case the award "falled him from heaven"

In his speech, read by also writer Mario Crespo, the author Santanderino toured "the great theme" of fragility in the 'Quijote' and 'The Licentiate Vidriera'. "Writing requires a lot of ass"

The Cantabrian writer Álvaro Pombo has received this morning from the king the Miguel de Cervantes Literature Prize 2024, collecting the witness of the previous award-winning, Luis Mateo Díez. Despite having made an act of presence, Pombo has not read the speech he had prepared for his "delicate" state of health. Instead, he has been the writer and historian Mario Crespo, one of the greatest specialists in the work of the prize-winner, the one i…

The winner, 85 years old, wrote his text, which Mario Crespo read, in fragility.

Álvaro Pombo, excited, fragile and in a wheelchair, has received this Wednesday from the King’s hands the Cervantes Prize in the ceremony that has taken place in the paraninfo of the University of Alcalá de Henares. The 85-year-old Cantabrian writer, from whom Philip VI has praised his “interest in goodness and truth”, has given his words to his collaborator Mario Crespo who has been in charge of reading the speech, in which Pombo has lamented t…