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Spanish novelist Juan Marse wins top literary prize
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MADRID (AFP) - - Writer Juan Marse was Thursday awarded the Cervantes prize, the top literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world, Culture Minister Cesar Antonio Molina announced.
Marse, 75, one of the best-known and most respected novelists in Spain since the 1936-39 civil war, was favorite to win the prize.
"This means a great deal to me, all prizes do, but this one in a very special way which I don't think I need to explain," he told news radio Cadena Ser.
Many of his books use social realism to depict the poverty and the marginalisation of society in his native Catalonia, a separatist-minded region in northeastern Spain, under the right-wing dictatorship of Francisco Franco.
"Si te dicen que cai" ("If They Tell You I Fell"), was published in Mexico due to Francoist censorship.
Many have also been made into films, such as "Ultimas tardes con Teresa" ("Last Evenings with Teresa"), "La Muchacha de las Bragas de Oro" ("Golden Girl") and "El embrujo de Shanghai" ("The Shanghai Spell").
"Marse is a great writer who has left his mark on several generations," said Argentine poet Juan Gelman, the winner of the prize last year.
The Cervantes prize, worth 125,000 euros (160,000 dollars), will be given to him on April 23, the anniversary of the death of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616), Spain's greatest literary figure and the author of "Don Quixote."
Peruvian-born Mario Vargas Llosa and Mexico's Carlos Fuentes of Mexico are amongst previous winners of the prize presented each April by Spanish King Juan Carlos in Cervantes' birthplace, Alcala de Henares.
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