Mexican Writer Gonzalo Celorio Wins Spain’s Cervantes Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Literature
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Mexican writer Gonzalo Celorio wins Spain’s Cervantes Prize for lifetime achievement in literature
Mexican novelist and essayist Gonzalo Celorio has won the 2025 Cervantes Prize, the most prestigious award in Spanish‑language literature. He is being honored for more than half a century of writing that blends memory, erudition and love of language. Spain’s Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun, announced the decision Monday in Madrid, calling Celorio’s work “an exceptional literary and intellectual labor that has enriched the language and Hispan…
In reading the ruling, the Spanish Minister of Culture considered the literary work of the Mexican essayist, narrator and professor to be "exceptional".
Mexico City, Nov 3 (EFE).- The Cervantes Prize awarded this Monday to the Mexican Gonzalo Celorio has recognized a writer with distrust in reality and, however, convinced that all literature has as seed an experience.Novelist, storyteller, chronicler, scholar, essayist, Celorio (Mexico City, 1948) is an all-terrain narrator.One day he wrote of the beautiful Cuban women of his family, another of when he slept in the bed of the storyteller Julio C…
The prize was awarded in Madrid by the Spanish Minister of Culture, who pointed out that the Mexican writer has contributed "in a profound and sustainable way" to enriching Spanish.
MADRID.— Mexican writer and academic Gonzalo Celorio, 77 years old, has been distinguished this afternoon with the highest literary award of the Castilian language, endowed with 125,000 euros. Thus, the Cervantes Prize, which had been awarded in the last two editions to Spanish authors, returns to Latin America.Since in 2022 the Venezuelan Rafael Cadenas obtained this prestigious recognition, in the following editions the jury elected the Spanis…
The melancholy gaze on the memory of the Mexican writer Gonzalo Celorio (Mexico City, 1948) received on Monday the Cervantes Award 2025. This was announced by the Spanish Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun, at the headquarters of the ministry in Madrid. An award that falls to the essayist, writer and critic “for his exceptional literary work, profound and sustained to Hispanic culture”, the jury has pointed out, emphasizing that Celorio “conjug…
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