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A scholar and promoter of the Mexican pre-Columbian world, as well as a leading communicator in this field of knowledge, Eduardo Matos Moctezuma has carried out his fieldwork in archaeological sites such as Comalcalco, Tepeapulco, Bonampak, Teotihuacan, Cholula, Tula, Tlatelolco and Tenochtitlan, among others.

Joint Laureate in 1991, together with Victoria de los Ángeles, Montserrat Caballé, José Carreras, Pilar Lorengar, Alfredo Kraus and Plácido Domingo.

25 nominations encompassing 16 different nationalities are in the running for this Award, the third of eight international awards that are bestowed each year by the Princess of Asturias Foundation, now in their 42nd year.

Michnik is one of the best known and most prominent defenders of human rights in Poland and is considered one of the key figures in the recovery of democracy in the country, as well as an outstanding journalist.

40 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 42nd year.

Having become two of the most important figures of flamenco in recent decades, Carmen Linares and María Pagés unify the spirit of several generations that, from a sense of respect for tradition and the depth of the roots of flamenco, have managed to modernize and adapt its essence to the contemporary world.

43 nominations encompassing 19 different nationalities are in the running for this Award, the first of eight international awards that are bestowed each year by the Princess of Asturias Foundation, now in their 42nd year.

312 nominations had been submitted as of 3rd March.

He was bestowed with the Award in 1996 for “his research into the history of Spain, which he has successfully fitted into the European and American framework”