Meeting of the jury for the 2025 Princess of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities

The Jury responsible for conferring the 2025 Princess of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities will meet this coming 6th and 7th May in Oviedo. This is the first of the eight international awards convened by the Princess of Asturias Foundation this year, now in their 45th year. A total of 47 candidatures encompassing 16 different nationalities are in the running for the Award. The meetings will be held at the Barceló Oviedo Cervantes Hotel.

The 2025 Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts will be conferred on 23rd May, subsequent to postponement of its conferral on 29th April. Further information will be forthcoming nearer to the date the Jury is to meet.

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 the Communication and Humanities is to be granted to “the work of fostering and advancing the sciences and disciplines considered humanistic activities or any activity related to social communication in any of its forms.”

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.

On the first day of the meeting at 11:00am on Tuesday 6th, there will be a family photo of the jury members in the hotel’s “Salón Regenta”, followed by a meeting with the media, immediately prior to its formal constitution and the start of its deliberations, which will commence at 11:30am. 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 7th, in the “Salón Regenta”, 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:

• Miguel Falomir Faus (chair)
• Óscar Loureda Lamas (acting secretary)
• Irene Cano Piquero
• Victoria Cirlot Valenzuela
• Estrella de Diego Otero
• Taciana Fisac Badell
• Santiago González Suárez
• Álex Grijelmo García
• Alma Guillermoprieto
• Miguel Ángel Liso Tejada
• Catalina Luca de Tena y García-Conde, Valle de Tena marquise
• Cristina de Middel Puch
• Miguel Ángel Oliver Fernández
• Carmen Riera i Guilera
• Diana Sorensen