The most important literary award of the Spanish language will be collected tomorrow by Álvaro Pombo. The author, due to his delicate health, was unable to attend the event in which close to one hundred guests paid tribute to him.
Don Felipe, dressed in mourning clothes, had words of remembrance for both Pope Francis and Mario Vargas Llosa, who died last week. The Monarch focused his speech on the importance of language, and of the Spanish language. Language is “a very powerful instrument to achieve what the world needs now more than ever: to reflect and dialogue.
