Luis Mateo Díez
Luis Mateo Díez
b. 1942-09-21 · From Spain2
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Luis Mateo Díez Rodríguez (born 21 September 1942 in Villablino, León) is a Spanish novelist and short-story writer. He spent his childhood in Villablino until his family moved to the city of León in 1954, studied law in Oviedo and Madrid, and worked for many years as a civil servant in the Madrid c…
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Has Luis Mateo Díez won the Premio Cervantes?
Yes. He was awarded the Premio Miguel de Cervantes in 2023, the highest distinction in Spanish-language letters. Spain's Ministry of Culture announced the jury's decision on 7 November 2023, citing him as "one of the great narrators of the Castilian language, heir to the Cervantine spirit, a writer in the face of all adversity, a creator of imaginary worlds and territories". The prize was presented by the King and Queen of Spain in April 2024. The Cervantes is a career award: it recognises a writer's body of work as a whole, and is never given to a single book. It should not be confused with his seat in the Real Academia Española, which he has held since 2001 — that is an academic membership rather than a prize.