This Monday, November 3, the Mexican writer and essayist Gonzalo Celorio won the Cervantes Prize 2025, considered the most important award given annually to the Castilian language.
Gonzalo Celorio, who was born in Mexico City in 1948, has, according to the prize jury, an “exceptional work”, with “a literary voice of remarkable elegance and reflective depth” consolidated over five decades.
The jury’s decision was announced this Monday, in Madrid, as usual, by the Spanish Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun, who highlighted that the Mexican writer has also contributed “in a profound and sustainable way” to the enrichment of the Spanish language.
Gonzalo Celorio combines in his work “critical lucidity with a narrative sensitivity that explores the nuances of identity, sentimental education and loss”, added Ernest Urtasun.
The writer’s books “E que ribombe nos seu centers a terra” were published in Portugal, translated by Jorge Fallorca (Teorema, 2002), and “Três lindas cubanas”, translated by Margarida Amado Acosta and revised by Carlos Pinheiro (Quetzal, 2009), according to the catalogs of the National Library of Portugal.
Celorio was a guest at Portuguese literary festivals such as Correntes d’Escritas, in Póvoa de Varzim, and LeV – Literatura em Viagem, in Matosinhos, accompanying the edition of “Três lindas cubanas”.
The Cervantes Prize, worth 125 thousand euros, is awarded annually on April 23, book day in Spain and the anniversary of Miguel de Cervantes’ death.