Zaragoza, Feb 19 (EFE).- The King and Queen of Spain will travel to Zaragoza this Monday to preside over the delivery of the 2021 National Culture Awards, a cultural event that was pending due to the covid pandemic and which will take place in the Crown Room of the Pignatelli Building, seat of the Aragonese Government.
An act in which the Minister of Culture, Miquel Iceta, will be present, who will travel to the Aragonese capital again after the recent visit made on the occasion of the delivery of the Feroz Awards for performing arts.
The 2021 Spanish Literature Prize went to the Leonese writer José María Merino; the one for poetry went to Miren Agurtzane Meabe Plaza, for ‘Nola gorde errautsa kolkoan’; in narrative to Xesús Fraga, for ‘Virtudes (e misterios)’; in essay to Ramón Andrés, for ‘Filosofía y consuelo de la música’; and in dramatic literature to Pablo Remón Magaña for ‘Doña Rosita annotated’.
Young poetry prizes were also awarded to Elena Higueruelo Illana, for ‘Los días eternos’; in children’s and youth literature Beatriz Giménez de Ory, for ‘A thread binds me to you’; in best translation Helena Cortés Gabaudan, for ‘The sofa from East and West’, the work of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; in the section on the work of a translator, Anne Hélène Suárez Girard; in Spanish history, Antonio José Díaz Rodríguez, for ‘The curial market. Bulls and business between Rome and the Iberian world in the Modern Age’; in illustration, Viví Escrivá, and in comics, Magius, for the controversial ‘Spring for Madrid’.
In addition, the cultural editorial work of Alfaguara was awarded, as well as the magazine ‘Litoral’ and the Fundación Anastasio de Gracia for its project to promote reading ‘Los libros a las fábricas’.
In that 2021 call, the National Plastic Arts Prize went to Dora García and the Photography Prize went to Pilar Aymerich.
