The playwright from Madrid wins the 2022 Princesa de Asturias Award for Literature and becomes the third playwright to win it after Francisco Nieva and Arthur Miller.
In this edition the award has praised dramatic literature, granting it to the playwright from Madrid, Juan Mayorga. Since 1981, this prestigious award has gone to only two playwrights, Francisco Nieva and Arthur Miller. It is a great day today for the theater since with Juan Mayorga, Spanish dramatic literature also wins. The jury has awarded him the prize for «the enormous quality, critical depth, and intellectual commitment of his work: action, emotion, poetry, and movement. For renewing the Spanish theater scene, endowing it with a philosophical and moral concern that challenges our society by conceiving his work as a theater for the future and for the essential dignity of the human being. »
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