The traditional initiative, which was launched this Tuesday, celebrates the World Book and Copyright Day, and in its current version displays the various languages of Spain on its banners, and a poster with the image of the Cervantes Prize, Rafael Cadenas.
Cadenas will receive the 2022 Miguel de Cervantes Prize for Literature in Spanish on April 24, at the Auditorium of the University of Alcalá de Henares, in a ceremony presided over by the King and Queen of Spain, Felipe VI and Letizia.
Other activities of Cervantina Week include the University of Alcalá de Henares (UAH) Word Festival; and the continuing traditional reading of Don Quixote, which will start on April 20, with the Venezuelan writer’s leading role.
Also next Thursday the legacy of Cadenas will be deposited in the Caja de las Letras of the Instituto Cervantes and the exhibition “Rafael Cadenas: This present is everything” will open at the Luis González Robles Museum.
The prize is awarded 125,000 euros by the Spanish Ministry of Culture and Sports, and is added to the Reina Sofia Prize for Ibero-American Poetry (2018) for the poet.
According to the jury, Cadenas received the Cervantes Prize “for his broad and broad literary work” and acknowledges “the importance of a creator who has made poetry a raison d’être and has elevated it to heights of excellence in our language”.
Likewise, he argued that “His work is one of the most important and illustrates the transformative power of the word when language is taken to the extremes of its creative possibilities.”
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