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Cervantes Prize awarded to poet Francisco Brines

The decision of this prize, worth 125,000 euros, was made public at a press conference, after the jury deliberated, where some of its members participated by videoconference, due to the covid-19 pandemic.

The Miguel de Cervantes Prize for Spanish Language Literature, created in 1975, recognizes the career of a writer who, with his work as a whole, has contributed to enhancing the Hispanic literary legacy.

Francisco Brines Banó was born in Oliva, Valencia, on January 22, 1932, and has been a member of the Royal Spanish Academy since 2001.

He was recognized with distinctions such as the National Prize for Spanish Letters (1999) and the Queen Sofia Prize for Iberoamerican Poetry (2010).

In 1987, he received the National Literature Award for the publication of “El Otono de las Rosas”, in the previous year, one of his most famous and popular books, composed of sixty poems written over ten years.

In 1999, he received the National Prize for Spanish Letters for all his poetic work and, in 2000, he was elected a member of the Royal Academy of Languages ​​of Spain.

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