Overview
- The state-backed award carries €125,000 and will be conferred in a ceremony presided by Spain’s monarchs at the University of Alcalá de Henares.
- The jury lauded Celorio’s oeuvre as “a memory of modern Mexico and a mirror of the human condition,” noting its elegance, critical lucidity and exploration of identity, education and loss.
- Celorio becomes the seventh Mexican laureate, restoring a Latin American recipient after two consecutive Spanish winners in 2023 and 2024.
- A longtime UNAM professor and director of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua, Celorio recently published the memoir Ese montón de espejos rotos in October 2025.
- The announcement, read by Culture Minister Ernest Urtasun after extended deliberations, followed a jury that included recent winners Luis Mateo Díez and Álvaro Pombo.