The Spanish playwright Juan Mayorga, author of works such as “Hamelin” and “The boy in the last row” that have been released on five continents and translated into more than thirty languages, was awarded the 2022 Princess of Asturias Award for Literature , a distinction that the jury decided to award him in a ruling announced this Wednesday for his “enormous quality, critical depth and intellectual commitment.”
“Since his beginnings, Mayorga has proposed a formidable renewal of the theatrical scene, endowing it with a philosophical and moral concern that challenges our society, by conceiving his work as a theater for the future and for the essential dignity of the human being,” he argues. the text where the decision was announced.
Forty-one candidates from 19 nationalities opted for the 2022 Princess of Asturias Award for Letters, the fifth of the eight international awards that the Princess of Asturias Foundation announces this year and which are celebrating their XLII edition.
The writer, playwright and academic of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) Juan Mayorga has been recognized with the 2022 Princess of Asturias Award for Letters: https://t.co/6AHx8C6ThO. pic.twitter.com/VWsOsIyOQk
– RAE (@RAEinforma) June 1, 2022
News in development.
