Premio Principe de Asturias 2009

[Daniel del Real]

Ismail Kadaré has been awarded with the Premio Príncipe de Asturias del as Letras 2009.
This award is given every year since 1981 to the individual, group of persons or institution whose creative or researching works represents a relevant contribution to universal culture in the fields of Literature or Linguistics.

More information here:

Kadare honoured with Asturias Literature prize - Prince of Asturias Awards : news, world | euronews

Here's the list of previous winners

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premio_Pr%C3%ADncipe_de_Asturias_de_las_Letras

As you can see, and in my point of view, this jury of this prize is being doing things good lately, awarding such an important elite of world writers such as Paul Auster, Amos Oz, Claudio Magris, Margaret Atwood, Doriss Lesing and now Kadaré. I might think they are doing a better job than the Nobel prize in the last years by awarding really important writers who deserve to be recognized.

[heroi]

I have to agree with you.In my personal opinion Asturias and some others such as the Man Booker price have been doing a better job then Nobel prize wich have been a disapointment in the last few years.But then again many great writers were not awarded Nobel.