Overview
- Spain’s culture minister Ernest Urtasun announced the decision after jury deliberations that ran more than an hour longer than planned.
- The prize is worth €125,000 and will be formally presented on April 23, 2026 at the University of Alcalá de Henares in a ceremony presided over by Spain’s monarchs.
- Celorio becomes the seventh Mexican recipient, reinforcing Mexico’s lead among Latin American countries in Cervantes laureates.
- A novelist, essayist and academic, he has directed the Mexican Academy of Language, led the Fondo de Cultura Económica, and serves as a longtime UNAM professor.
- UNAM formally put forward his candidacy, and coverage notes his new memoir, Ese montón de espejos rotos, released in October.