The Princess of Asturias Foundation

37 nominations encompassing 17 different nationalities are in the running for this Award, the fifth of eight international awards that are bestowed each year by the Princess of Asturias Foundation, now in their 43rd year

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The Jury responsible for conferring the 2023 Princess of Asturias Award for Literature will meet this coming 23rd and 24th May in Oviedo. This is the fifth of the eight international awards convened by the Princess of Asturias Foundation this year, now in their 43rd year. A total of 37 candidatures encompassing 17 different nationalities are in the running for the Award. The meetings will be held at the Reconquista Hotel.

As stated in the Foundation’s Regulations, the Princess of Asturias Awards are aimed at rewarding “the scientific, technical, cultural, social and humanitarian work carried out at an international level by individuals, institutions or groups of individuals or institutions”. In keeping with these principles, the Princess of Asturias Award for Literature is to be granted to “recognizing the work of fostering and advancing literary creation in all its genres.”

Each Princess of Asturias Award comprises a Joan Miró sculpture representing and symbolising the Award, a diploma, an insignia and a cash prize of fifty thousand euros.

The members of the Jury will hold an initial meeting with the media at 11:00am on Tuesday 23rd in the hotel’s “Salón de Consejos” reception room (first floor) immediately prior to its formal constitution and the start of its deliberations, which will commence at 11:30am, after the group photograph. Each jury shall have a chairperson and an acting secretary. Both shall be appointed by the Princess of Asturias Foundation and shall have voice and vote.

The Jury’s decision will be announced at 12:00 noon (GMT+2:00) on Wednesday 24th, in the “Salón Covadonga” reception room in the same hotel (ground floor), following which the members of the Jury will be available for interview.

Composition of the Jury

The Jury will be made up of the following persons:

Santiago Muñoz Machado (chair)
Sergio Vila-Sanjuán Robert (acting secretary)
Xosé Ballesteros Rey
Blanca Berasátegui Garaizábal
Anna Caballé Masforroll
Gonzalo Celorio Blasco
Jesús García Calero
José Luis García Delgado
Pablo Gil Cuevas
Francisco Goyanes Martínez
Lola Larumbe Doral
Juan Mayorga Ruano
Carmen Millán Grajales
Leonardo Padura Fuentes
José María Pou Serra
Fernando Rodríguez Lafuente
Ana Santos Aramburo
Jaime Siles Ruiz
Anne-Hélène Suárez Girard
Juan Villoro Ruiz

LIST OF PREVIOUS LAUREATES

List of Laureates

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