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The king likes these occasions through which literature will not be solely public life but in addition what the writers who’re entertained right here deliver. It’s not that he was in a rush to hearken to this yr’s Cervantes laureate, I’m certain he was, as a result of he has learn his books and speaks about them with ease. But the reality is that His Majesty quickly launched into declaring open the solemnities whose function was to have a good time the Cervantes Prize for Gonzalo Celorio. He was alone, close to the final director of the Book, ready for the king to present the ground to the Minister of Culture, undoubtedly what the king of the Spanish needed to say as a prologue to every part.

As this yr’s winner has a ardour that has linked him to the phrase since childhood, Don Felipe’s protocol combined with Celorio’s style, so he mentioned, to sign that the session was starting: “The word opens…”. His Majesty realized what he had mentioned and laughed like everybody else. Celorio lived these moments with the enjoyment of somebody who sees the lead motive of his life as a author. Don Felipe mentioned: “The word Word…, “After all, it is the winner’s favorite word.”

The winner would then hear many words, and he would pronounce his own, which at all times were intimate and familiar, since his literature is, from his childhood, an account of life with his family, with his mother, who was born in Gran Canaria, with his father, who was born in Asturias. At any point in his journey through life, this man who never gave up childhood, until today, was close to his family. To his older brother, Diego, the only one left of the twelve siblings he had, he dedicated words that went to the root of that childhood. In his speech, “he was able to describe,” Brother Jaime told us, “everything he did as a child; he told us his thoughts, he dedicated his entire life to us, he made a family portrait and even explained what he told us to tell us boys to look for a girlfriend…”

There were 16 relatives, children, grandchildren, friends, of the writer who is now cervantes: his sons Gonzalo and Diego, his grandson Diego, his wife’s daughters, Carolina and Jimena, his brother Jaime, his sister-in-law Silvia… A crowd that is also part of the literature he writes… His wife, Silvia Garza, took photos of the moments in which the writer was closest to the memory of the child he was mixing with the praise he received. What moved Silvia the most about this episode of the award ceremony was “everything he said about his family, his lineage, which is, on the other hand, in all his literature… He has lived many lives and in this one he now has, he has found the light of the word.”

the phrase phrase. Queen Letizia was most moved, of all that she heard, by what Gonzalo Celorio skilled “when he was a little boy” searching for his personal area that books later gave him, “the tool that would later be his passion and his work.” His son Diego, who lives in Spain, highlighted among the many issues that his father mentioned as quickly as he started his speech: his grandfather, Gonzalo’s father, had mentioned to have his life forward of him, and that if it grew to become troublesome to go search for him, that he would rescue him.

The voice of the winner

There had been difficulties within the instant previous listening to what he was saying. Now it’s, in relation to that point, as soon as once more the voice that continues saying the phrase it desires. His grandson, Diego, like his father, accompanies him nowadays, just like the troupe of the author who has by no means stopped being a poet. The youthful Diego (now he’s 16 years outdated) informed me, once I requested him, just like the others, and just like the king and Doña Leticia, what he would spotlight about this second through which the brand new Cervantes celebrates his award: “I was moved when, at the beginning, he evoked the death of his father… But what made the most impact on me was when he told how he explained to his brothers how they should flirt with girls.”

Sergio Ramírez gained the Cervantes prize in 2017. He was glad that the phrase now went to his Mexican buddy. “The emotion of his family is a way of celebrating his literature.” The bookseller Lola Larumbe informed this newspaper: “There were so many people, from all over, from America, from Spain, from many places, listening to Celorio, that it can be said that here was the explanation that there is no purity of race, but a journey, with Cervantes and with Don Quixote, through words. Through the word word”.

In the air, spoken by Celorio, underlined by the audio system, tributes to mestizo literature that now lives in all latitudes the place Spanish is spoken sounded: León Felipe, Julio Cortázar, Mario Vargas Llosa, Carlos Fuentes, Elena Poniatowska. There aren’t any borders anymore. Now, mentioned the winner of the Cervantes, within the canon are unquestionably all those that domesticate the language of Cervantes. “We are all a substantial part of the Territory of La Mancha.”