Eduardo González
Today, Monday, the King and Queen will chair the annual meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Instituto Cervantes, the highest governing body of the institution, which will take place at the Royal Palace of Aranjuez and in which the trustees will learn the main data of the 2022-2023 academic year, as well as the objectives and forecasts for the new academic year.
In addition to Mr. Felipe (honorary president) and Mrs. Letizia, the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez (executive president), and the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, will participate in the Board of Trustees session; of Education, Pilar Alegría, and of Culture, Ernest Urtasun, as reported by Cervantes in a press release. Once the annual meeting is over, the King and Queen will offer the traditional lunch to the patrons of the Instituto Cervantes, the Spanish-American Diplomatic Corps accredited in Spain and other guests.
The attendance at the Palacio de Aranjuez is expected, among other patrons, of the 2023 Cervantes Prize winner, Luis Mateo Díez; the writer and professor Estrella de Diego, the general secretary of the Permanent Commission of the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language (ASALE), Francisco Javier Pérez Hernández; the president of the Institute of Spain, Eduardo Díaz-Rubio; the president of the Film Academy, Fernando Méndez-Leite; the director of the Inca Garcilaso Cultural Center (Peru), Hernando Torres-Fernández; the president of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Antonio Colino; the president of the Conference of Rectors (CRUE), Eva Alcón; the rectors of the universities of Granada and Salamanca, Pedro Mercado and Ricardo Rivero, respectively; and the president of the Association for the Teaching of Spanish as a Foreign Language (ASELE), Javier Muñoz-Basols.
Before the Board of Trustees, Mr. Felipe VI will present the Ñ 2023 Prize of the Cervantes Institute to the German Hispanist Dieter Ingenschay (1948), emeritus professor of Hispanic Literatures at the Humboldt University of Berlin, and previously, professor of Romance Philology at the University of Munich.
In 2008, he was awarded the Order of Isabella the Catholic for his merits in the dissemination of Spanish culture in Germany and, on October 19, 2022, he moderated in Frankfurt the round table Homage to German Hispanism, chaired by the Queen Letizia.
His main areas of research are postmodern, postcolonial and postdictatorial aspects of Hispanic literatures and gender studies. Among his publications, Opening Paths stands out. Spanish literature since 1975 (1993), From opposite sidewalks. Gay and lesbian literature/culture in Latin America (2006) and Events of desire. Minority sexualities in the cultures/literatures of Spain and Latin America at the end of the 20th century (2018).
The Ñ Prize, with which Instituto Cervantes recognizes personalities for their work in disseminating Spanish throughout the world, previously went to Barbara Fuchs (2021), writer, translator and professor, and Gabriele Morelli (2022), Italian philologist and professor. .
