Romanian poet Ana Blandiana wins 2024 Princess of Asturias Award for Literature
Ana Blandiana was announced as the winner of the Princess of Asturias Foundation's top prize at a ceremony broadcast live from the north-western Spanish town of Oviedo. The award annually recognises "the work of cultivating and perfecting literary creation in all its genres". The president of the jury, Santiago Muñoz, declared that Blandiana was selected for being "a radically singular creator", whose writing, "combines transparency and complexity, raises fundamental questions about the existence of human beings in solitude and society in the face of nature and history". Blandiana, according t...