Javier Moreno Luzón, from Murcia, has been awarded the 2024 National Prize for Spanish History, for his work “El rey patriota: Alfonso XIII y la nación” (Galaxia Gutenberg), as announced by the jury that met today.
The prize, awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Culture, is endowed with 30,000 euros.
The jury singled out the author's work for “being an innovative biography and for its substantive contribution to knowledge that breaks with the paradigm of the exceptional nature of Spanish history. It is a work of special relevance for understanding the period of the Restoration and the first third of the 20th century”.
Likewise, the jury has pointed out that, with brilliant writing and a powerful narrative, “the author inserts a series of essential historiographical issues and debates such as the role of the Monarchy in the burgeoning era of the masses, nationalism and the politicization of the Catholic religion.
