Overview
- The Premio Nacional de las Letras Españolas includes a €50,000 award and is considered just below the Cervantes Prize in prestige.
- The jury described her lyric as emerging from a 'serene source', noting clean verse and a pursuit of perfection.
- Atencia is closely linked to Spain's 1950s generation and has sustained a long career since her first book in 1953.
- She previously received the 2014 Reina Sofía de Poesía Iberoamericana, becoming the fourth woman and the first Spanish recipient.
- She follows Manuel Rivas, the laureate of the previous edition of the National Prize for Letters.