The jury of the competition, granted by the Ministry of Culture and endowed with 40,000 Euros, highlights "his uniqueness as a writer, heir to an oral culture in which he was born and from which he registers a progressive disappearance."
Luis Mateo Díez: «I feel like heir to all the greats who have written in our language.
The writer Luis Mateo Díez has been awarded the 2020 National Prize for Spanish Letters, as announced on Twitter by the Minister of Culture, José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes. The award, granted by the Ministry of Culture, is endowed with 40,000 euros.
According to the jury's decision, the uniqueness of Luis Mateo Díez “as a writer in various genres, and especially as a narrator, is heir to an oral culture in which he was born and from which he highlights his progressive disappearance. Added to this is a technique and poetic language of extraordinary richness and a constant concern for the moral dimension of the human being ».
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The jury, chaired by María José Gálvez Salvador, general director of the Book and Promotion of Reading and acting as vice president, Begoña Cerro Prada, deputy director of the Promotion of Spanish Books, Reading and Literature, has been made up of: Carmen Iglesias Cano, for the Royal Spanish Academy; Víctor Fernández Freixanes, for the Real Academia Gallega / Real Academia Galega; Javier Calzacorta Elorza, for the Real Academia de la Lengua Vasca / Euskaltzaindia; Martí Domínguez Romero, for the Instituto de Estudios Catalanes / Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Also María Antonia Martín Zorraquino, for the Conference of Rectors of Spanish Universities (CRUE); Clara Sánchez Muñoz, for the Association of Writers of Spain (ACE); Luis Alberto de Cuenca y Prado, for the Spanish Association of Literary Critics; Jesús García Calero, for the Federation of Associations of Journalists of Spain (FAPE); Isabel Ortega Sánchez, for the UNED Center for Gender Studies; Epícteto José Díaz Navarro, by the Ministry of Culture and Sports and José Irazu Garmendia (Bernardo Atxaga), award-winning author in the 2019 call.
