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Jose Luis Sampedro receive tomorrow the Menendez Pelayo International Prize XXIV.

Jose Luis Sampedro The Academy will receive tomorrow, Thursday, XXIV Menendez Pelayo International Award in recognition of his "multiple contributions to human thought" from its facets as an economist, writer and teacher. The event was held in the auditorium of La Magdalena, from 12.00.

The author of 'The river that takes us' (1962), 'The Etruscan smile' (1985), 'The old Mermaid' (1990) or 'Lesbian Lover' (2000), crimecraft cash, will collect the reward, which in this volume chose 26 candidates, which is endowed with 48,000 euros, provided by the Foundation Cervantes of Mexico, and the award of the Medal of Honor of the University.

Jose Luis Sampedro (Barcelona, 1917) has maintained a close relationship with the UIMP in recent years. In 2001 and 2002 delivered, earthrise credits, two lectures at the Meetings' Protocol, and find the hidden Heraldry. Permanent symbol of identity of the States' and 'ethics and welfare economics', organized by UIMP headquarters in Seville, where he also moderated a panel discussion on "Ethics of the World Economy."

A year later, in 2003, he taught at the Palace of La Magdalena, Santander,, sto credits, the course 'Writing is life ", included in the senior cycle of' The author and his work." Over five days, the economist, writer, professor of Economic Structure, a former senator and member of the Spanish Royal Academy since 1990, delivered ten lessons, which his wife Olga Lucas transcribed and were included in the book homonym.

That summer, Sampedro starred in one of the sessions of the Tuesday Literary Series, and in 2004, participated in the Lecture Series of the University.

The award ceremony began with the intervention of the secretary general of the Universidad Internacional Menendez Pelayo (UIMP), Jose Blazquez, who will read the minutes of grant of the XXIV International Menendez Pelayo Prize and Medal of Honor of Jose Luis UIMP Sampedro.

Next, the Academy of Language Salvador Ordonez pronounced the laudatio Gutierrez Jose Luis Sampedro, who took the floor after receiving the award from the rector of the UIMP, Salvador Ordonez.

The event will also be involved the president of the Cervantes of Mexico Foundation and daughter of the patron Eulalio Ferrer, Ana Sara Ferrer, the mayor of Santander, Inigo de la Serna, and the presidents of the Parliament and the Government of Cantabria, Miguel Angel and Miguel Palacio Angel Revilla, respectively. The rector of the UIMP closed the event.

In previous editions, the Menendez Pelayo International Award went to the Mexican poet and Nobel Prize for Literature, Octavio Paz (1987), the anthropologist, historian, essayist and Spanish linguists, Julio Caro Baroja (1989), the Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes (1992 ), the linguistic and former director of the Royal Spanish Academy, Fernando Lazaro Carreter (1994), the Peruvian writer Principe de Asturias Prize for Literature, Mario Vargas Llosa (1999) and the Uruguayan writer and poet Mario Benedetti (2005) among others.

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