Miguel de Cervantes Prize みげる・で・せるばんてすしょう
Edition 23 (1997)
Spanish-language literatureLifetime achievementNational (Spain)
Winners
1 peopleThe prize honors Guillermo Cabrera Infante’s long creative career as a whole. It recognizes a body of work that explored memory and identity through layered narration, humor, and linguistic experimentation.
Wordplay and layered narration define an entire literary career.
experimental styleLatin American literaturewordplaymemory and identity