They announced (and I mentioned) a while back that the great Juan Goytisolo would receive the 2014 Premio Cervantes, the leading Spanish-language author-prize and on 23 April -- not just Shakespeare's birthday, but also Cervantes' -- they had the ceremony handing over the prize.
I was waiting/hoping for some English-language coverage -- it's Goytisolo ! the major Spanish-language author-prize ! royalty ! -- but ... little has been forthcoming. (Still, there's some: Cervantes prizewinner laments state of Spain during ceremony, Javier Rodríguez Marcos reports at El País 'In English'.)
You can watch/listen to Goytisolo's acceptance speech here, or read it here, both in the original Spanish. (Come on, someone publish the English translation !)
I was waiting/hoping for some English-language coverage -- it's Goytisolo ! the major Spanish-language author-prize ! royalty ! -- but ... little has been forthcoming. (Still, there's some: Cervantes prizewinner laments state of Spain during ceremony, Javier Rodríguez Marcos reports at El País 'In English'.)
You can watch/listen to Goytisolo's acceptance speech here, or read it here, both in the original Spanish. (Come on, someone publish the English translation !)