The writer from Leon receives the most important award in Hispanic literature from the hands of King Felipe.
The writer from Leon, Luis Mateo Diez (Villablino, Leon, 1942) received the Cervantes Prize on the day of the book, the most important of Hispanic letters, with a speech that began as an intellectual biography, then became a dialogue with Don Quixote and ended up being an essay on literature, heroism, indolence, and heroic madness.
All of this offered a gap through which to peek inside the mind of the author of “Filandón” and “La fuente de la edad,” even if it was paradoxical, because Díez maintained in his Cervantes speech that being normal does not much matter to him.
