Mexican writer, José Emilio Pacheco, wins the 2009 Premio Cervantes

Mexican writer, José Emilio Pacheco, wins the 2009 Premio Cervantes
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By h.b. - Nov 30, 2009 - 4:54 PM

José Emilio Pacheco - EFE

The award, given by the Spanish Ministry for Culture, is worth 125,000 €

Mexican writer, José Emilio Pacheco, has been named as the winner of the Spanish top literary prize, the Premio Cervantes for 2009.

The announcement was made by the Minister for Culture, Ángeles González Sinde, and the Mexican proved victorious over the other finalists Nicanor Parra, Ricardo Piglia, Isabel Allende and Fernando del Paso.

President of the jury, José Antonio Pascual, commented that to define Pacheco was to define a whole language, and said that he had been chosen by a majority of the jury after several deliberations. He said that José Emilio Pacheco is ‘an exceptional poet of daily life with depth and the ability to recreate his own world’.

The Cervantes Prize, created by the Spanish Ministry for Culture in 1975, and now worth 125,000 € to the winner, has so far been given to 18 Spanish writers and 17 Latin Americans.

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