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Meeting of the jury for the 2025 Princess of Asturias Award for Literature
24 nominations encompassing 16 different nationalities are in the running for this Award, the second of eight international awards that are bestowed each year by the Princess of Asturias Foundation, now in their 45th year
The Jury responsible for conferring the 2025 Princess of Asturias Award for Literature will meet this coming 13th and 14th May in Oviedo. This is the second of the eight international awards convened by the Princess of Asturias Foundation this year, now in their 45th year. A total of 24 candidatures encompassing 16 different nationalities are in the running for the Award. The meetings will be held at the Barceló Oviedo Cervantes 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.
On the first day of the meeting at 11:00am on Tuesday 13th, 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 Wednesay 14th, 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:
- Santiago Muñoz Machado (chair)
- Fernando Rodríguez Lafuente (acting secretary)
- Xuan Bello Fernández
- María Sheila Cremaschi
- María Dueñas Vinuesa
- Jesús García Calero
- Pablo Gil Cuevas
- Francisco Goyanes Martínez
- Lola Larumbe Doral
- Inés Martín Rodrigo
- José María Pou Serra
- Ana Santos Aramburo
- Marisol Schulz Manaut
- Sergio Vila-Sanjuán Robert
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