The Premio Miguel de Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Prize) is awarded annually to honour the lifetime achievement of an outstanding writer in the Spanish language. The prize is similar to the Booker Prize, with its candidates from Commonwealth countries, in that it rewards authors from multiple nations, in this case, Spanish-speaking. Unlike the Booker Prize, it is awarded only once in recognition of the recipient's overall body of work and is th...
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The Premio Miguel de Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Prize) is awarded annually to honour the lifetime achievement of an outstanding writer in the Spanish language. The prize is similar to the Booker Prize, with its candidates from Commonwealth countries, in that it rewards authors from multiple nations, in this case, Spanish-speaking. Unlike the Booker Prize, it is awarded only once in recognition of the recipient's overall body of work and is therefore regarded as a type of Spanish language Nobel Prize in Literature.
The award is named after Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote.
The candidates are proposed by the Language Academies of the Spanish-speaking countries, and the prize is awarded by the Ministry of Culture of Spain.
The winner receives a monetary award of 90,000 euros.
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