Dario Villanueva, writer, and former director of the RAE, (Real Academia Española) has won the Francisco Umbral Award for Book of the Year 2021 for his essay “Morderse la lengua;”

a "very relevant reading to these confusing times and turmoil in society."

In the words of the winner about this essay, “language does not belong to the State, and if the power assumes this new language and forces citizens into it, we enter the field of censorship".

Likewise, during the ceremony for this award given yesterday and endowed with 12,000 Euros, the President of the Francisco Umbral Foundation, España Suárez, stated that "Morderse la lengua" is an "essential" book because "it constitutes a solid literary testimony ".

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