Victoria Szpunberg (Buenos Aires, 51 years old), based in Barcelona, has been distinguished with the National Dramatic Literature Award 2025 for her work The categorical imperative which will be released for the first time in Spanish at the end of October at the Abbey Theater. The award, awarded by the Ministry of Culture, is endowed with 30,000 euros. The jury has selected this piece for “the deep and powerful dramatic load and the domain of an ingenious technique with which the author finds the ideal tone and temperature of an ironic and incisive piece. From a philosophical base, Victoria Szpunberg portrays the cruelty of a system capable of expelling any of its members, even when they submit to their norms,” reads the statement.
Szpunberg has been writing for years, teaching and workshops, signing dramaturgies and premiering texts of all kinds. It is not defined as an artist or an intellectual, but as a worker. She was the first woman to direct her own work in the Gran Room of the National Teatre of Catalonia, The third leak. Se has consolidated in recent years as an author with works such as The weight of a body,Heartbreak o The categorical imperative.
His first work Between here and there (what lasts a walk), In 1998, he was a second prize of the María Teresa León Award, selected by the Royal Court of London (International Residence of 2000) and released in the Rest of Madrid in 2000 and in the Here New York Festival in 2002. His works have been released in national and international festivals and theaters and have been translated into more than 10 languages.
Apart from her author as an author, she has collaborated with different choreographers, she has signed dramaturgies and theatrical adaptations, has worked as a director and has written pieces for radio and sound facilities. In 2013 he received the Max Award for Catalan theater authorship.