The winner of the Cervantes Prize, endowed with 125,000 euros, belongs to the Venezuelan generation of the 1960’s.

The Venezuelan poet, Rafael Cadenas, has won the 2022 Cervantes Prize, thus replacing the Uruguayan writer, Cristina Peri Rossi. This was announced yesterday, November 10th, by the Minister of Culture and Sports, Miquel Iceta.

The poet who has won one of the most prestigious recognitions of literature in Spanish, becomes the first Venezuelan author to be recognized with this award. The jury has recognized in him his "vast and extensive literary work" and the "transcendence of a creator who has made poetry the reason for his own existence and has taken it to heights of excellence in our language." For the jury, Cadenas «makes words distill their dazzling essence, placing them between the dual worlds of dreams and vigils and making his poems a profound expression of existence itself and of the universe, also placing them in a dimension that is both mystical and earthly.

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