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The authors and editors of Cedro's board of directors have agreed to award the writer, RAE academic and columnist Antonio Muñoz Molina with the Cedro 2023 Award for his defense of copyright, of the creator's work and for his constant militancy in favor of of a sustainable culture.
“We wanted to highlight that for him the defense of intellectual property and diverse culture have been constants in his life.
He has not only claimed it in his journalistic columns, but also went to the Congress of Deputies at the time to defend the need to adequately protect culture and copyright ”, explained Daniel Fernández, the president of the association.
The award will be presented on April 26, a date that coincides with World Intellectual Property Day.
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Muñoz Molina was born in Úbeda (Jaén) and is 67 years old.
His narrative work includes titles such as
Winter in Lisbon
(1987),
Beltenebros
(1989),
The Polish Horseman
(1991),
The Mysteries of Madrid
(1992),
Full Moon
(1997),
Carlota Fainberg
(2000),
Windows of Manhattan
(2004),
The Wind of the Moon
(2006),
Sefarad
(2001) ,
The night of the times
(2009),
Like the shadow that leaves
(2014),
A lonely walk among the people
(2018),
Your steps on the stairs
(2019),
The fear of children
(2020),
Return to where
(2021), the volume of stories
Nothing from another world
(2011) and the essay
Everything that was solid
(2013).
She is a columnist for EL PAÍS and has collected her articles in volumes such as
El Robinson urbano
(1984) or
La vida por delante
(2002).
The author has received, among others, the Prince of Asturias Award for Letters, the Planet Award, the Jerusalem Award, the Prix Médicis Étranger and was a finalist for the Man Booker International Award with his novel Como la sombra que se va in
2018.
Since 1995 he is a member of the Royal Spanish Academy.
He lives between Madrid and Lisbon.
Cedro's mission is to represent and defend the legitimate interests of authors and publishers of books, newspapers, magazines and sheet music, facilitating and promoting the legal use of their works.
It currently has 31,916 writers, translators, journalists and publishers from our country as members.
The Cedro Award recognizes annually, since 2017 and in a symbolic way, the trajectory of a person or institution that stands out for defending culture in general and copyright in particular.
In recent years it has been received by Lorenzo Silva (2017), Julia Navarro (2018), Pepa Fernández (2019), Rosa Montero (2020), José María Merino (2021) and four writers in 2022 (Eduardo Maura, Emilio del Río, Marta Rivera de la Cruz and José Andrés Torres Mora).