álvaro Mutis, a Colombian poet, novelist and critic, died in Mexico City on 23rd at the age of 90. He was called "one of the greatest writers of our time" by Garcia Marquez, and his influence spread all over the Spanish-speaking countries in the world. He has won many top Spanish literary awards, such as Prince asturias Award and Cervantes Award.
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Nationality: Colombia
Place of birth: Bogota
Date of birth:1August 25th, 923
Date of death: 2065438+September 23rd, 2003.
Occupation: poet, writer, critic
Major achievements: won the Prince asturias Prize.
Cervantes literature prize
Masterpiece: The Adventures and Troubles of Night Watch Collor.
Main experience
álvaro Mutis was born in Bogota on 1923. Like his Colombian compatriot Garcí a Má rquez, he began to publish his poems and comments in Bogota's literary supplements "The Spectator" and "Reason". /kloc-published the first collection of poems and songs in 0/947. And he and Garcia Marquez are complementary in literature. Mutis first read the first draft of One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Although everyone thinks that Mutis is a poet, he has also written several novels, including The Lost Job, The Story of Araucama's Mansion and Hot Land, The Balance and mana Coming in the Rain. Therefore, he is regarded by critics as one of the best poets and novelists of his time. He also won the Prince of asturias Literature Award with 1997, and the sixth Spanish Queen Sophia Poetry Award in the same year.
Colombian writer Alvaro Mutis won the Spanish Cervantes Prize for Literature in 20001. The prize of Cervantes Literature Prize, known as Spanish Nobel Prize in Literature, is about $865,438+0,000.
Writing style
The news that Mutis won the prize was announced by Spanish Minister of Culture pilar del Castillo, who called Mutis's writing style sharp. He also won the controversial Francisco Wimbledon Award.
Mutis lives in Mexico City now. After winning the prize, he told Columbia TV: "This is a very deep feeling for me, because I seem to have said from an early age that I have absolute admiration for Don Miguel Cervantes, and I admire his adventure, situation and difficult life very much." He also said: "It seems that he gave me an award."
Personal realization
Since 1975, when the Spanish Ministry of Culture established the Cervantes Prize for Literature, 14 Spanish writers and 13 Latin American writers have won prizes. Among them are Jose Serra, Vargas Luisa, Carlos fuentes, Sabato and Opaz.