The 33rd King of Spain awards, announced on Jan. 12, recognized Latin American journalists who investigated and penned stories about time and place, poverty, sexual exploitation and violence, technology and environmental pollution.
Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa was awarded the Don Quixote Journalism Award for the report “Cusco throughout the Time,” which was published in El Pais in January 2015. In the piece, the Peruvian author recounts his return to Cusco after a long absence, according to EFE.
A release from EFE described Vargas Llosa as “one of the most relevant and renowned literature and journalism writers in the Spanish scene.”
The King of Spain International Journalism Awards, first given in 1983 by EFE and the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation, “recognize not only the quality of the published works that contribute to communication and mutual understanding between Latin American countries and those with which Spain has historical and cultural ties, but also those works related Environment and Sustainable Development,” according to the EFE site.
Other Latin American journalists recognized by the awards were:
Note from the editor: This story was originally published by the Knight Center’s blog Journalism in the Americas, the predecessor of LatAm Journalism Review.
