More Accolades for Leonard Cohen
Cohen awarded prestigious Spanish Literary prize.
Cohen.Pic: NILLThe iconic Leonard Cohen has been lauded once again -- he is the 2011 recipient for the Prince of Asturias Award for Letters. The annual award is one of eight given by the Principe de Asturias Foundation for achievement in a variety of fields ranging from arts to sciences.
Cohen won “for a body of literary work that has influenced three generations of people worldwide through his creation of emotional imagery in which poetry and music are fused in an oeuvre of immutable merit. The passing of time, sentimental relationships, the mystical traditions of the east and the west and life sung as an unending ballad make up a body of work associated with certain moments of decisive change at the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st century,” the jury stated in its citation.
The 76-year-old singer/songwriter/poet/novelist beat a field of 32 contenders from throughout the world. Past winners of the Letters award include Margaret Atwood (2008), Ismail Kadare and Arthur Miller.
Recipients of the Asturias Foundation awards receive 50,000 euros ($70,035 CAD), a diploma, insignia and a sculpture designed by Catalan artist Joan Miró. A ceremony honouring the winners takes place in Spain in October.
The Asturias Foundation awards are ” "to reward the scientific, technical, cultural, social and humanistic work performed at an international level by individuals, institutions or groups of individuals or institutions."
Other prizewinners include Dr. Howard Gardner for Social Sciences, and internationally renowned conductor Riccardo Muti for the Arts.
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