Álvaro Pombo is not going to attend the Cervantes Prize ceremony | Culture | EUROtoday

Álvaro Pombo has not been in a position to attend the normal lunch that the Kings supply yearly on the Royal Palace on the eve of the Cervantes Award, which is able to happen tomorrow, Wednesday, April 23, in Alcalá de Henares. Pombo, 85, can’t attend this ceremony for well being causes. During the meals within the Royal Palace, it was taken with no consideration that it will likely be his collaborator Mario Crespo – one of many foremost specialists in his work, current at lunch – who reads the speech of the Santander author.

If final 12 months, throughout the identical lunch, the award -winning Luis Mateo Díez heard the speech directed by Felipe VI sitting subsequent to the queen, on this event the phrases escaped the royal eating room with out having the ability to catch them the halls as a result of they have been flying within the route of the ground of the Madrid neighborhood of Argüelles the place the Spanish novelist lives, the one who greatest thinker by means of the narration to discover the ambivalent nature.

The King’s phrases – black corbate and extreme darkish swimsuit, are days of official mourning – dialogue with the speech that Pombo learn in 2004 on the event of his entry into the Royal Academy. Then they offered their candidacy Luis Mateo Díez and Luis María Ansón, the 2 additionally current on the Royal Palace. “Like many other colleagues and writers of my generation, I have loved Spanish literature and language, and I have worked hard with them,” Pombo then confessed and retakes Felipe VI emphasizing the worth of labor with phrases. If on that nice event Pombo mirrored on the stress between fact and probability, primarily based on the definitions of the Royal Academy, in his speech the king additionally threw from the Dictionary of the RAE to learn two meanings of the definition of recognition. A recognition to Pombo for the ethical dimension of his literature, which he linked with the custom of Miguel de Unamuno, Antonio Machado and Gabriel Miró.

Although a brut Gaudí Panot reserve was not a great day for a festive toast. Too many absences. Applause in deaf. Some company referred to as on the Royal House asking whether or not lunch was suspended on the event of the dying of the Pope. For Francisco they have been the primary phrases after which for Mario Vargas Llosa, two international figures whose mom tongue was Spanish. At the time of espresso, within the corrillos that appear to bounce a minué to strategy the kings, Felipe VI recalled certainly one of his first conferences with the Peruvian author, throughout which he first felt examined after which they may have already got a relaxed dialog. It is instructed by one of many writers invited to lunch: most authors attending the occasion have been laureate in the course of the earlier 12 months (El Azorín, El Tusquets, the Loewe, the Brief Library …). There was additionally, amongst others, María Dueñas, who remembered the beneficiant blurb [frase promocional en la faja del libro] that Vargas devoted to an English translation of his novels.

Several of the attendees paid yesterday the 5 euros on the digital platforms to see the film Conclave. “If you’ve seen it will not be a sword.” Felipe VI explains that he noticed it months in the past and factors out as a key second of the movie the moment after the explosion that interrupts the vote. A welter enters the Sistine Chapel, lifts the cardboard the place Ralph Fiennes will write the identify of the candidate. The headquarters of Rome is vacant, additionally that of Spanish literature and the Cervantes Álvaro Pombo Award thinks life from its flooring in Argüelles.