Eduardo Mendoza 2025 Princess of Asturias Award for Literature

At its meeting in Oviedo, the Jury for the 2025 Princess of Asturias Award for Literature, composed of Xuan Bello Fernández, María Sheila Cremaschi, María Dueñas Vinuesa, Jesús García Calero, Pablo Gil Cuevas, Francisco Goyanes Martínez, Lola Larumbe Doral, Inés Martín Rodrigo, Ana Santos Aramburo, Marisol Schulz Manaut and Sergio Vila-Sanjuán Robert, chaired by Santiago Muñoz Machado and with Fernando Rodríguez Lafuente acting as secretary, has decided to confer the 2025 Princess of Asturias Award for Literature on Eduardo Mendoza.

The jury highlights Mendoza’s decisive contribution to Spanish literature over the past half-century, comprising a compendium of novels that fuse a desire for innovation with the ability to reach a broad-ranging audience and enjoy widespread international acclaim. 

His clear prose encompasses both popular language and the most unexpected academic terms. His books are notable for the sense of humour and casual, humanistic view of existence they contain. Eduardo Mendoza is a font of happiness for his readers, and his work has the merit of reaching all generations, who today recognize themselves in his resplendent pages.

Oviedo, 14th May 2025