In the ceremony without an audience, the Princess of Asturias Award for Literature will also be presented to Anne Carson.

As it represents one of the most important meeting points for books, writers, readers and culture in the world, as well as a main point for the promotion of the Spanish language, the Guadalajara International Book Fair will receive this Friday, October 16, the Princess of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities 2020.  Last June, a jury chaired by Víctor García de la Concha, presented this award during the Hay Festival of Literature & Arts. The award ceremony will be held this year without an audience, at the La Reconquista Hotel in Oviedo, Spain. Raúl Padilla López, President of FIL Guadalajara, will deliver the award reception speech in an event that will be broadcast on the official channels of the Princess of Asturias Foundation, as well as on the social networks of the University of Guadalajara and those of the fair itself.

The Princess of Asturias Awards seek to "contribute to the acclaim and promotion of all the scientific, cultural and humanistic values ??that are world heritage.” These prizes are awarded to personalities and institutions that have made significant contributions in Arts, Communication and Humanities, Social Sciences, Sports, Literature, Scientific and Technical Research and International Cooperation. This year, FIL shares the award in Communication and Humanities with the Hay Festival and with the important figures and institutions that have obtained it in the past, such as the Prado Museum, the Royal Society, the journalist Alma Guillermoprieto, the philosophers Alain Touraine and Zygmunt Bauman, the photographer Annie Leibovitz and the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

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