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Cervantes Literary Award Goes To Mexican Pacheco
Monday, November 30th, 2009
MADRID — The Mexican writer Jose Emilio Pacheco has won the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world’s highest literary honor, Spain’s Culture Ministry said Monday. The 70-year-old poet, novelist, journalist, essayist and literary critic said he was overwhelmed by the award. “It’s like being hit by a punch that doesn’t hurt you immediately, it’s absolutely unreal,” Pacheco said from the international book fair in Guadalajara, Mexico
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