The Diplomat
The King and Queen of Spain will preside today over the annual meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Instituto Cervantes, the institution’s highest governing body, at the Royal Palace of Aranjuez in Madrid.
In addition to Philip VI and Queen Letizia, the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez; the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares; Education and Vocational Training, Pilar Alegría, and Culture and Sport, Miquel Iceta; the State Secretary for Ibero-America, the Caribbean and Spanish in the World and President of the Board of Directors of the Instituto Cervantes, Juan Fernández Trigo; Luis García Montero, Director of the Instituto Cervantes; and Carmen Noguero, Secretary General of the Instituto Cervantes, will be present at this annual meeting of the Board of Trustees.
Also attending the annual event, among other patrons, will be the director of the Royal Spanish Academy, Santiago Muñoz Machado; the rector of the University of Salamanca, Ricardo Rivero Ortega; the screenwriter and film director and winner of the National Film Award, Isabel Coixet; the flamenco singer and Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts, Carmen Linares; the Colombian writer Piedad Bonnett; the Mexican narrator and essayist, Gonzalo Celorio; and the Italian hispanist and philologist Gabriele Morelli, who will receive the Ñ 2022 Award from the King.
After the presentation of the award, the meeting of the highest governing body of the Instituto Cervantes will begin behind closed doors, followed by a lunch offered by the King and Queen to the members of the Board of Trustees and the representatives of the Ibero-American Diplomatic Corps accredited in Spain, as well as the rest of the authorities.
