{"id":266486,"date":"2008-12-01T14:42:57","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T14:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2008\/12\/01\/two-spanish-prizes\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:27:33","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:27:33","slug":"two-spanish-prizes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2008\/12\/01\/two-spanish-prizes\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Spanish Prizes"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is kind of old news, but last week Juan Goytisolo was awarded Spain’s National Prize for Literature, an extremely prestigious award honoring a writer’s career.<\/p>\n

Goytisolo is one of my all-time favorite writers, especially Makbara<\/em>, Marks of Identity<\/em>, Count Julian<\/em>, and Juan the Landless<\/em>. I actually had the opportunity to have lunch with him once during the Guadalajara Book Fair. He was incredibly charming and intelligent (as expected) and told a great story about Fidel Castro and Goytisolo’s vinegar allergy . . .<\/p>\n

Dalkey Archive has reprinted all of the titles mentioned above, with the exception of Juan the Landless<\/em>, which I think will be coming out in the future.<\/p>\n

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Over the holiday weekend, it was announced that Juan Marse was awarded the Cervantes Prize,<\/a> which is considered to be the Nobel Prize for literature in Spanish.<\/p>\n

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Marse is best known for his novels about people enduring tough times in Catalonia after the 1936-1939 civil war, which ended with fascist dictator Francisco Franco’s victory and was followed by years of repression against his foes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Doesn’t look like any of Marse’s books are available here in the States, although two—Lizard Tails<\/em> and Shanghai Nights<\/em>—were translated by Nick Caistor and are available in the UK.<\/p>\n

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This is kind of old news, but last week Juan Goytisolo was awarded Spain’s National Prize for Literature, an extremely prestigious award honoring a writer’s career. Goytisolo is one of my all-time favorite writers, especially Makbara, Marks of Identity, Count Julian, and Juan the Landless. I actually had the opportunity to have lunch with him […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[17196,1836,17176,17186],"class_list":["post-266486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-awards","tag-cwp","tag-juan-goytisolo","tag-juan-marse"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355686,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266486\/revisions\/355686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}