José Emilio Pacheco - EFE
Speaking on Friday after being presented by King Juan Carlos with this year’s Cervantes Prize, the Mexican poet and writer, José Emilio Pacheco, said he would have liked the prize to have been for Miguel de Cervantes, saying that that in Spanish literature, nobody had a life fuller of humiliations and failures than Cervantes himself. The prize would have brought relief to his final years.
Pacheco described his acceptance speech as ‘very simple and very modest’.
King Juan Carlos also used the occasion to express Spain’s thanks to Mexico, which he described as a ‘great sister nation which had never stopped contributing to Latin American and Spanish culture. The King said he was speaking for himself and the Queen when he thanked Pacheco for his works and for his life dedicated to literature, ‘for having revealed the poetic intensity of Spanish in a singular way’.
It proved an eventful day for Pacheco. Just before the start of the ceremony at the Alcalá de Henares University, his trousers fell down.
‘Not having braces is a very good argument against vanity’, he said afterwards.
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