The Spanish writer Juan Mars today received the Cervantes Prize, the Nobel Prize for Spanish Letters.
Mars, born in Barcelona to 08 January 1933, was opposing the "rush" Ana Maria Matute, Javier Marías and Bonaldo Caballero, among others.
The prize, worth 125,000 euros, is the first to be granted following the amendments introduced by the Ministry of Culture in the composition of the jury, to enhance the presence in the world of letters and culture in general at the expense of institutions dependent on government.
Today one of the biggest names of the novelist from Spain, Mars - Juan Roca pout of his real name - worked as an apprentice jewelry workshop for 25 years and began writing in newspapers and magazines.
He lived for a few in Paris, where he worked in the Pasteur laboratory, and returning to Spain won the Biblioteca Breve Prize with his novel "Last afternoon with Teresa."
Mars, born in Barcelona to 08 January 1933, was opposing the "rush" Ana Maria Matute, Javier Marías and Bonaldo Caballero, among others.
The prize, worth 125,000 euros, is the first to be granted following the amendments introduced by the Ministry of Culture in the composition of the jury, to enhance the presence in the world of letters and culture in general at the expense of institutions dependent on government.
Today one of the biggest names of the novelist from Spain, Mars - Juan Roca pout of his real name - worked as an apprentice jewelry workshop for 25 years and began writing in newspapers and magazines.
He lived for a few in Paris, where he worked in the Pasteur laboratory, and returning to Spain won the Biblioteca Breve Prize with his novel "Last afternoon with Teresa."
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