With the ringing of the bell (tilín-tilín-tilín) and the traditional prayer in Latin, the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) held an extraordinary plenary session this Thursday in León in which, among other matters, the Leonese writer Luis Mateo Díez, Cervantes Prize winner in 2023, read the praise of merits of the Nicaraguan author Sergio Ramírez, the only candidate to occupy the L chair of the institution, vacant since the death of Mario Vargas Llosa, April 13, 2025. For Díez, the writer born in Masatepe, in 1942, is a “suitable candidate, who lives in forced exile and maintains the strength of his radical testimony against the dictatorship that exiled him and the creative freedom of those who continue to attend to their work with the quality and ambition that they assumed from the beginning.”
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