The winner of the 2012 Premio Cervantes, the leading (and worth €125,000) Spanish-language author prize -- see the impressive list of previous winners -- has been announced, and it will go to José Manuel Caballero Bonald; see, for example, the brief AP report (here at The Washington Post).
The Spanish press, of course, has much more extensive coverage: ABC's Caballero Bonald, Premio Cervantes 2012 by Antonio Astorga provides a good overview.
Among other contenders for what is generally a prize reserved for those very advanced in age were, apparently, Eduardo Mendoza, Antonio Muñoz Molina, and brothers Juan and Luis Goytisolo.
Caballero Bonald is, of course, not well-known in the English-speaking world, and appears to be more or less untranslated -- his contribution to the art-book: Botero: The Bullfight (Rizzoli, 1990) looks like more or less the extent of it. On the other hand: good timing for Ross Woods' just released Understanding the Poetry of José Manuel Caballero Bonald: The Function of Memory in a Spanish Writer's Art; see the Mellen Press publicity page, or get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.
Among other contenders for what is generally a prize reserved for those very advanced in age were, apparently, Eduardo Mendoza, Antonio Muñoz Molina, and brothers Juan and Luis Goytisolo.
Caballero Bonald is, of course, not well-known in the English-speaking world, and appears to be more or less untranslated -- his contribution to the art-book: Botero: The Bullfight (Rizzoli, 1990) looks like more or less the extent of it. On the other hand: good timing for Ross Woods' just released Understanding the Poetry of José Manuel Caballero Bonald: The Function of Memory in a Spanish Writer's Art; see the Mellen Press publicity page, or get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.