Julian Barnes, Asturias Princess of Letters Award, Points to Leaders Like Trump for "Not Respecting Democratic Norms"
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Since he retired, Julian Barnes (1946) has not stopped working: it is very difficult to rest in this life. The British writer said goodbye to the novel with 'Departidos', but then he had to promote it, and soon he was given the princess of Asturias de las Letras, who will pick up in Oviedo this Friday, and here is the man, between bagpipes and journalists and students who ask him questions. The writer came to his encounter with the press walking…
Since the events leading up to the Princess of Asturias Awards 2026, one of the winners, the writer Julian Barnes, has focused much of his statements to the press since Oviedo in a reflection on the current international scenario of the political powers, in essence, the authoritarianisms and leaders who have been feeding this form of mandate. The winner of the Princess of Asturias Award of the Letters of this year has labeled the current interna…
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Julian Barnes: "China, Russia and the US Are Led by Leaders Who Do Not Respect Democratic Standards"
British writer Julian Barnes, awarded the Princess of Asturias Award for Letters 2026, described the international situation as "terrifying" in the face of the advance of authoritarianism and warned that China, Russia and the United States are led by leaders who "do not respect democratic norms." "I am therefore not optimistic," he said this Wednesday in Oviedo, where he also expressed his concern about Donald Trump's policy and the rise of the …
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