JOHN MAYORGA, PRINCESS OF ASTURIAS OF LETTERS AWARD

The Princess of Asturias Foundation announced last 1 June that the winner of the Princess of Asturias Award for Literature 2022 is the playwright Juan Mayorga. According to the jury led by the president of the RAE, Santiago Munoz, The Madrid writer has been chosen "for the enormous quality, critical depth and intellectual commitment of his work: action, emotion, poetry and thought.”

To their 57 years, Mayorga has behind him more than 50 plays that have made him become the Spanish author with the greatest international projection. Therefore, The playwright has been obtaining many recognitions such as the National Theater Award (2007), The EU Prize for New Scenic Realities (2016) or the chair m of the RAE (2019).

Mayorga during an interview with the newspaper El Mundo

Despite these honors, The artist has not gone to writing and has made the leap to the direction to take charge of the representation of his own pieces for a decade. As if that were little, As of last February, Juan Mayorga has begun his journey in the management of the theater of the Abbey of Madrid.

Among the works of greatest relief of the playwright we can mention Be quiet, that is currently on tour and that is having great success since its premiere in January. Played by the great actress Blanca Portillo, This monologue gives an ironic layer to the speech that the writer himself delivered after receiving his seat as a member of the RAE.

To end today's text, We will echo the interesting reflection that the graceful author proposes in his gratitude note to the Princess of Asturias Awards: “PI don't know what I have done for what I have done, but for what is expected to do, And I promise to work in order to deserve it someday.”

his unwavering faith in God and the numerous trips that brought him into contact with diverse cultures and to settle in Santa Eulària

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elpais.com/cultura/2022-06-01/el-dramaturgo-juan-mayorga-gana-con-el-premio-princesa-de-asturias-de-las-letras-2022.html

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