writer Ana María Matute, will receive today, the most prestigious prize in English literature from King Don Juan Carlos. The ceremony will be held in the auditorium of the University of Alcalá de Henares.
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Ana Maria Matute, Barcelona 85, is the third woman to receive the Cervantes in more than three decades of the history of this award, after the English philosopher María Zambrano Alarcón and the Cuban poet Dulce María Muñoz Loynaz .
In 1948 was a finalist for the Premio Nadal with "Abel." In 1952 he received the Café Gijón "Fiesta Northwest." In 1954 he won the Metro to "Little Theatre". With "dead children" won the Critics' Award 1958 and 1959 National Literature. In 1959 Nadal won the "First memory." In 1965 came the Lazarillo National Award for her work "The stowaway from Ulysses." In 1969 he received the Fastenrath with "Night Soldiers." In 1984 he won the National Award for Child Literatuta with "only a bare foot." In 1996, the City of Barcelona Prize for Literature English for "The true end of Sleeping Beauty." In 1996 he was elected to the Royal English Academy where he holds the chair K. In 2007 he won the National Prize for literature and in 2008, the Don Quixote Prize in literature. It is also a member of the Hispanic Society of America, Honorary Fellow of the American Association Teacher of English and Portuguese.
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