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Former yachtswoman and social entrepreneur Ellen MacArthur has been granted the 2022 Princess of Asturias Award for International Cooperation, as announced today by the Jury responsible for conferring said Award.

30 nominations encompassing 14 different nationalities are in the running for this Award, the sixth of eight international awards that are bestowed each year by the Princess of Asturias Foundation, now in their 42nd year.

He published his first play, Siete hombres buenos, in 1989, which earned him the Marqués de Bradomín Runner-up Prize from the Spanish Youth Institute. He has taught Playwriting and Philosophy at the Royal School of Dramatic Art in Madrid and directed the seminar “Memory and Thought in Contemporary Theatre” at the Spanish National Research Council’s Institute of Philosophy.

41 nominations encompassing 19 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 42nd year.

By acclamation of the institution’s Board of Trustees, he will take over from Luis Fernández-Vega Sanz as of December.

The Olympic Refuge Foundation and the IOC Refugee Olympic Team have been bestowed with the 2022 Princess of Asturias Award for Sports, as announced today by the Jury responsible for conferring said Award.

24 nominations encompassing 10 different nationalities are in the running for this Award, the fourth of eight international awards that are bestowed each year by the Princess of Asturias Foundation, now in their 42nd year.

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.