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	List of Hispanics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986), Cervantes Prize Laureate (1979).
		Octavio Paz (1914–1998), Cervantes Prize (1981) and Nobel Prize (1990) Laureate.
		Augusto Roa Bastos (1917–2005), novelist, Cervantes Prize Laureate (1989).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Hispanics (1843 words)

	CERVANTES
		Cervantes was born in Alcalá de Henares (Madrid) and settled in this capital.
		They captured Cervantes and his brother Rodrigo and shut them in their Algerian prisons.
		Nevertheless, Cervantes economic situation was always precarious, but he never gave up the idea of traveling to Naples as the secretary to the viceroy, Comte of Lemos, to whom he devoted his posthumous book, The Labours of Persiles and Sigismunda (1617).
	www.spanisharts.com /books/masters/cervantes.htm (524 words)

	Documento sin título
		This month is of Cervantes because he died the 23 of April of 1616, and the celebrations are in “Alcalá” because he was born there in 9 of October of 1547.
		The Cervantes Prize is awarded by the Spanish Education, Culture and Sport Department at the proposal by the Hispanic language Academy annually.
		Cervantes is the image of the city and for that reason the city dedicates a day to him, the 23 of April, this year Gonzalo Rojas receives Cervantes award.
	www2.uah.es /monica_olivares/documentos/Cervantes.htm (2757 words)

	IGNACIO CERVANTES: PIANO DANCER by Glenn Jenks
		Cervantes studied with the famous Cuban pianist Nicolas Espadero when he was a young boy.
		Franz Liszt overheard Cervantes practicing at his Paris home one afternoon and was curious as to who was playing so wonderfully; so, he knocked on his door.
		Cervantes died in 1905 in his native land, much-loved by his countrymen for both his music and his patriotism during Cuba's struggle for independence.
	www.stevenestrella.com /composers/cervantesessay.html (1881 words)

	CERVANTES IN CYBERSPAIN
		Cervantes tried as hard as he could to be a good poet "the heavens would not grant me such grace"--as he would often say--but the great bulk of his works have been lost.
		The Cervantes Institute, one of the standards of the Spanish culture and letters around the world, following on the principles of the master, makes possible, through a myriad of activities, the diffusion of the spirit and dignity of our language to all of the corners of the earth.
		Annually, the Cervantes Prize, sponsored by the Spanish Ministry of Culture, offers the highest honor of the Spanish language to one literary work following the footsteps of the spirit of the "El Quijote".
	www.cyberspain.com /year (1255 words)

	Cervantes Prize -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The Cervantes Prize is presented to an author whose Castilian-language work as a whole is judged to have most enriched Spanish and Spanish-American culture.
		The Nobel prize for literature is the highest international literary honor.
		First awarded in 1901, it is one of the prizes established by Alfred Bernhard Nobel, a 19th-century Swedish industrialist (see Nobel, Alfred; Nobel Prizes).
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9095624?tocId=9095624 (876 words)

	Cornell News: Garcés wins MLA's Lowell Prize (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The MLA's prestigious annual prize is awarded for an outstanding book, literary or linguistic study, critical edition of an important work or a critical biography written by a member of the association.
		Cervantes in Algiers -- a magisterial exploration of the sociopolitical world of 16th-century North Africa -- maps the surprisingly porous frontiers between Muslim and Christian worlds in the early modern period.
		Born in Colombia, Garcés was director of the Instituto Departamental de Bellas Artes in Cali, Colombia, between 1977 and 1982, and the founder of the Orquesta Sinfonica del Valle del Cauca in 1977.
	www.news.cornell.edu /releases/Dec03/Garces.MLA.award.html (532 words)

	Argentina
		Prize Concurso Régimen de Fomento a la Producción Literaria Nacional y Estímulo a la Industrial Editorial, Fondo Nacional de las Artes
		Prize Raúl Gustavo Aguirre of the Sociedad Argentina de Escritores
		Argentine Society of Writers' Prize of Honour (1974)
	www.innvista.com /culture/literature/latam/argentin.htm (372 words)

	Business Wire: The Prince of Spain Officially Opens Instituto Cervantes New York, a Premier Spanish Language and ...
		Instituto Cervantes is dedicated to promoting the teaching, study and use of Spanish and to the advancement of Spanish and Hispanic cultures throughout the world.
		Instituto Cervantes, founded by the Spanish government in 1991, is governed by a Board of Directors, whose honorary president is His Majesty the King of Spain.
		Instituto Cervantes New York is one of the premier centers of Instituto Cervantes, which operates a total of 45 centers and adjunct teaching facilities in 31 countries throughout Europe, the U.S., Asia and Africa.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2003_Oct_10/ai_108705363 (1296 words)

	Premio Cervantes -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Premio Miguel de Cervantes (the Miguel de Cervantes Prize) is awarded annually to honor the whole career of an outstanding writer in the (additional info and facts about Spanish language) Spanish language.
		It is regarded as a type of (additional info and facts about Nobel Prize in Literature) Nobel Prize in Literature in the Spanish language.
		The candidates are proposed by the (additional info and facts about Language Academies) Language Academies of the Spanish-speaking countries, and the prize is awarded by the Ministry of Culture of (A parliamentary monarchy in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula; a former colonial power) Spain.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pr/premio_cervantes.htm (921 words)

	INGLES GRANMA INTERNACIONAL DIGITAL, CUBA
		In 1957 he was elected member of the Royal Academy of Language, but the real recognition of his work came much later, when he received the 1984 National Literature Prize, the 1987 Prince of Asturias Literary Prize and the 1989 Nobel Prize for Literature.
		He considered the Nobel Prize a great victory over the judges for the Cervantes Prize, who passed over his repeated nominations for that honor.
		In the end, he did receive the Cervantes Prize, in 1995, only after he made one of his most controversial statements, still remembered today: "The Cervantes Prize is too discredited and too covered with shit for me to concern myself with it." All of Spain was left dumbstruck.
	www.granma.cu /INGLES/enero02-3/4cela-i.html (254 words)

	Search Results for Cervantes - Encyclopædia Britannica
		Don Quixote's squire in the novel Don Quixote by Cervantes, a short, pot-bellied peasant whose gross appetite, common sense, and vulgar wit serve as a foil to the mad idealism of his master.
		In July or August 1604 Cervantes sold the rights of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha (“The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha,” known as Don Quixote, Part I) to the...
		The most important of the city's theatres is the Colón Theatre, which is the opera house as well as the headquarters of the national ballet and the national symphony.
	www.britannica.com /search?query=Cervantes&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT (478 words)

	Poets & Writers - News - December 20, 2000
		The 25-year-old prize is the Spanish-speaking literary world's highest honor, and carries a cash award of $75,000.
		Ferry was awarded his $10,000 prize at the Library of Congress.
		For the prize's 30th anniversary year, five of the ten judges will be drawn from sports, television, and the nonliterary arts.
	www.pw.org /mag/news/News001220.htm (315 words)

	Message by Miguel Angel Sanchez Reyes: UNESCO-CI
		The winner of the 2003 Cervantes Prize for literature, Chilean poet Gonzalo Rojas, has said that suppressing the word would be like seeking to eliminate silence.
		Those hopes vanished with the Cuban government´s refusal to accept the good offices provided by Mr Matsuura, to whom we offer, on behalf of the Cuban people, our apologies, in the hope that amends can be made for what might have been done to you by officials of the Cuban regime.
		This Prize, which symbolically recognizes those endeavours, must also contribute to shortening the time before the doors of Cuban jails open and thought´s prison concludes.
	portal.unesco.org /ci/ev.php?URL_ID=15660&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&... (970 words)

	Books \| Augusto Roa Bastos
		Cervantes prize-winning novelist whose work fictionalised the political struggles of his native Paraguay
		It was almost a decade later that Stroessner was finally toppled from power in Paraguay, and coincidentally or not, in 1989 Roa was awarded the Cervantes prize, one of the most highly regarded in the Spanish-speaking world.
		After the return of a semblance of democracy to his home country, Roa began to travel there again, and was active in encouraging a new generation of writers.
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5181147-110500,00.html (1071 words)

	News
		She was the first woman to win Spain's National Literature Prize in 1978 for her work, "The Back Room", and her other popular works include "The Strange Thing is Living", "Variable Cloud", and "Roro es lo vivir".
		Rodriguez was a member of the Royal Spanish Academy and was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for the Arts in 1993.
		Torrente Ballester was a University professor and popular novelist with over 30 titles to his credit, and was awarded the 1985 Cervantes Prize for Literature.
	users.adelphia.net /~fvila/Spain/litnews.htm (2339 words)

	The Griffin Trust For Excellence In Poetry: Press Releases - Griffin Poetry Prize Shortlist To Be Announced at Blue ...
		The shortlist for the first annual $80,000 Griffin Poetry Prize, will be announced at the Blue Metropolis by the founder of the award, Scott Griffin.
		The $10,000 Prize is made annually in recognition of a lifetime of literary achievement.
		Also on hand for the Griffin Poetry Prize shortlist announcement will be the acclaimed Scottish poet, Robin Robertson, who is one of the Prize’s five trustees (with Michael Ondaatje, Margaret Atwood, David Young and Robert Hass).
	www.griffinpoetryprize.com /press_releases.php?t=3 (327 words)

	News & Events
		Hispanic Studies at the University of Edinburgh has had a long tradition of international scholarship on Cervantes, and have marked the anniversary with its Cunninghame Graham Lecture.
		This annual lecture, co-sponsored by the University of Edinburgh and the Spanish Embassy, this year celebrated Cervantes’ novel in a talk given by the renowned Mexican novelist and intellectual, Carlos Fuentes, entitled “400 Years with Don Quixote”;.
		A central figure in the Latin American “boom”, a diplomat, and a groundbreaking literary and social critic, Fuentes has been the recipient of many international awards and prizes, including the prestigious Cervantes Prize conferred by King Juan Carlos of Spain.
	www.ed.ac.uk /news/050609carlos.html (178 words)

	Ignacio Cervantes. Music. La Peña. SoyCubano
		Ignacio Cervantes is one of the most notable composers, pianists and pedagogues of the Cuban XIX century.
		In 1879, he came back to Cuba and retook the artistic labor developed by him as interpret of Romantic European authors, he also assumed the direction of orchestras at Payret and Tacón theaters, in addition, he became a notable pedagogue forming pupils like Eduardo Sánchez de Fuentes, who was a prominent musician further more.
		Cervantes iniciated the creation of his works at early ages.
	www.soycubano.com /pena/musica/ignacio_cervantesi.asp (417 words)

	Maud Newton: Blog
		Augusto Roa Bastos, the Paraguayan author of I, the Supreme, a novel centered on 19th Century dictator Gaspar Rodriguez de Francia, has passed on.
		Roa Bastos won the Cervantes Prize, the most esteemed prize in Spanish letters.
		"In November 2004 Swedish Pen held a ceremony in Stockholm to award her their distinguished Tucholsky prize which she was not well enough to attend." Her most recent novel, published in 2002, was The Stone Virgins.
	maudnewton.com /blog/index.php?p=5086 (100 words)

	Poet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Chilean Poet Scoops Spain's Top Literary Prize Dec 10, 2003 MADRID (Reuters) - Chilean poet Gonzalo Rojas has won Spain's top literary award, the Miguel de Cervantes prize, organizers said on Wednesday.
		Chilean Poet Rojas Wins Cervantes Prize Dec 11, 2003 11 — Chilean poet Gonzalo Rojas has won the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's top literary award, which carries a $110,000 cash prize.
		Chilean Poet Rojas Wins Cervantes Prize Dec 11, 2003 MADRID, Spain (AP)--Chilean poet Gonzalo Rojas has won the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's top literary award, which carries a $110,000 cash prize...
	www.jobtitles.net /O/Poet.html (3334 words)

	Library Journal - Alvaro Mutis Wins Premio Cervantes Prize (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Bogotá, 1923) won the 2001 Premio Miguel de Cervantes, an honor of the highest rank that is considered the Nobel for Spanish-language literature.
		Authors Mario Benedetti and Ana María Mutate were among the finalists for the 2001 prize.
		The jury of 11 included writer Francisco Umbral (2000 Cervantes winner), president of the Royal Academy of Spanish Language Victor García de la Concha, and former president of Colombia Belisario Betancourt.
	libraryjournal.com /article/CA189936.html?...&pubdate=2/1/02 (360 words)

	CNN.com - Nobel Prize-winning author Camilo Jose Cela dead - January 17, 2002
		Announcing the award of the Nobel literature prize to Cela in 1989, the Swedish Academy said it was rewarding "the leading figure in Spain's literary renewal during the post-war era."
		From an early age, Cela nursed the ambition of being a writer and worked in a wide range of literary genres, including poetry and essays as well as novels.
		He won Spain's most prestigious literary awards, such as the Prince of Asturias prize for Letters, the Miguel de Cervantes prize and the National Literature Prize and was awarded honourary degrees by several universities.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/SHOWBIZ/books/01/17/obit.cela (390 words)

	Short Stories
		Delibes won the Premio Cervantes in 1994, Premio Nadal in 1947, Premio de la Critica in 1953, Premio Principe de Asturias in 1982, Premio Nacional de las Letras in 1991, and the Premio Nacional de Literatura in 1955 and 1999.
		He is also a person who has excelled in all genres and who instead of creating pastiches writes in a style that is innovative and constantly changing.” The Cervantes Prize includes a $75,000 cash award.
		Other important awards include the Principe de Asturias prize, which was awarded to him for being one of the foremost prosiest of Spanish literature in the XX century.
	users.adelphia.net /~fvila/Spain/short_stories.htm (2126 words)

	NAMED AWARDS – 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Academic success is to be rewarded at the University of Durham, Queen's Campus this week with the 8th annual student prize giving ceremony.
		Fifty top achievers will be on Campus to receive their awards which will be presented by the Mayor, Councillor Terry Bean and prize sponsors in the presence of tutors and student guests.
		It is to her enormous credit that she never allowed her impaired mobility to interfere with her studies - a feat which I have no doubt required an enormous amount of hard work and determination".
	www.dur.ac.uk /stockton/latestnews/01-68.htm (377 words)

	The Universal Academy of Cultures - Members
		His essays and novels have been awarded numerous prizes, notably the Cervantes Prize.
		In 1991, she was awarded the Nobel Prize and the Prize for Human Rights.
		Winner of the Barcelona Prize (1979), the French National Grand Prix for painting (1985) and of the Prince des Asturies Prize(1990).
	www.academie-universelle.org /ememb_4.htm (343 words)

	literary award -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		These prizes often honor established literary figures, but they may also help relatively unknown writers and illustrators to achieve greater recognition.
		The prize is generally considered, along with the Naoki Prize, Japan's most prestigious and sought-after literary award.
		The Caldecott Medal is an annual prize awarded to the “artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.” It was established in 1938 by Frederic G. Melcher, chairman of the board of the R.R. Bowker Publishing Company, and named for the 19th-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9275499 (800 words)

	The Elegant Variation: CERVANTES AWARD GOES TO POET.
		The poet said he was pleased to win a prize sometimes described as the Spanish-language Nobel.
		Given the politicized nature of the British literary scene, Banville's shot at the prize might be hobbled by his controversial McEwan review but we're rooting for our longtime favorite to go all the way at last.
		We've been fans of Booker Prize winner John Berger for ages, and we're delighted to have received an early copy of his latest work, Here is Where We Meet.
	marksarvas.blogs.com /elegvar/2003/12/cervantes_award.html (1003 words)

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