Juan Francisco Fuentes Aragonés has been awarded the 2025 National History Prize of Spain for his work ‘Bienvenido, Mister Chaplin.
Juan Francisco Fuentes Aragonés has been awarded the 2025 National History Prize of Spain for his work ‘Bienvenido, Mister Chaplin. La americanización del ocio y la cultura en la España de entreguerras’ (Taurus), as proposed by the jury that met today. The prize, awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Culture, is worth €30,000.
The jury chose ‘Bienvenido, Mister Chaplin. La americanización del ocio y la cultura en la España de entreguerras’ because 'it is a work that, with a lively and brilliant narrative, manages to present compelling and complex ideas when analyzing the penetration of American mass culture in Spain in the first third of the 20th century.'
The jury also noted that the author intelligently and thoroughly documents the sociocultural history of our country in the interwar period from a novel perspective, showing and demonstrating that Spanish society at that time was open to the modernity that was arriving, especially from the United States.
