Overview

• Cixous accepted the Formentor Prize at Madrid’s Teatro Real, where she described Israel’s destruction of Gaza as self-destructive and warned that the Western world is agonizing.
• At a press conference, she linked the conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine as despairing wars defined by extreme cruelty and the erasure of entire populations and histories.
• She emphasized that literature carries moral insight yet should not be militant, even as she remains a pioneering voice in feminist thought.
• The Formentor jury recognized a six-decade oeuvre spanning philosophy, psychoanalysis, linguistics, history, and intimate memory.
• New Spanish-language editions, including a fresh translation of The Laugh of the Medusa, are bringing renewed attention to her work.