Felipe VI has formally presented the Joan Margarit Prize, created by the Instituto Cervantes last September, nearly two decades after the state's recognition of the grande dame of Canadian letters through the Princess of Asturias Award for Literature.
Mónica and Pol Lezcano Margarit, the daughter and grandson of the Catalan poet and professor of architecture, who died in 2021, were tasked with giving a reading of poems written both by Margaret Atwood and by their relative during the ceremony, held at the University of Victoria.
