Gelman receives Cervantes Prize
Argentine poet Juan Gelman, who suffered wrenching personal loss under his country’s military rule and wrote of it in poignant verse, received the Spanish-speaking world’s highest literary honor on Wednesday.
Spain’s King Juan Carlos gave Gelman a medal symbolizing the Cervantes Prize at a ceremony in Alcala De Henares, the birthplace of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, the author of “Don Quixote.”
Gelman, 77, is considered Argentina’s poet laureate and once belonged to the Montoneros, a leftist guerrilla group that fought the Argentine juntas that ruled in the 1970s and ‘80s.
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