Silva will receive the award this Wednesday to coincide with the observance of World Intellectual Property Day. The writer Lorenzo Silva has decried the difficulties that a Spanish writer must overcome in order to make a living from literature.

The writer Lorenzo Silva has inveighed against “Spain’s wager in favor of the so-called submerged economy” by not promoting anti-piracy measures, a situation that is “antithetical to the legitimate economy,” and one that is not likely to be solved in the short term. “I’m stupefied and I have lost hope. There is a passivity and indifference in the public sector which denotes a lack of both intelligence and collective moral health,” Silva scornfully averred. The writer was awarded the first CEDRO Prize for his defense of intellectual property rights in Spain.

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