Luis Mateo Díez is the winner of the 2023 Cervantes Prize. Widowed after losing his wife in a nursing home in the pandemic.
dedicates his days to reading and writing in his chaotic library. “I was a strange child who wrote, who read and who liked to tell stories, but today I am afraid of that child I was because he had a very powerful inner world,” he says. Video from In the Library: “Order constrains me”