Princess Sofia will make her public debut with the traditional reading of Don Quijote, which this time will be virtual.

This year’s Cervantes Week will be the strangest one to date since 1976, as it is the time when the Cervantes Prize is awarded.  Considereing that in 44 years there has been chances for anything to happen, the majority of things have been mere anecdotes.  But never, in the history of the Premio Cervantes, has there ever been a need to cancel it, which traditionally, and with very few exceptions, is celebrated on April 23, the day commemorating the deaths of Cervantes, Shakespeare and the Incan author Garcilaso, in the auditorium of Universidad de Alcala de Henares (Madrid).

We are not sure if the winner this year, the poet Joan Margarit, had already prepared a speech when the government issued the stay-at-home order on March 14, but what is clear is that we will not be hearing it.  We do not have a date yet for the ceremony which is presided by King Felipe and Queen Letizia.

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