Music: Asturias Prize in Letters: more on Leonard Cohen

Asturias Awards (1981-2011),
awarded annually in Oveido, Asturias region, Spain

Wikipedia (June 4,2k11)

See our earlier blog-entry (June 1, 2k11) with a fabulous update

in the form of a video clp of Mr Cohen's performance of 

Dance Me to the End of Love 

(refWrite Backpage, June 1, 2k11).

Literature

* see our earlier blog-entry in tribute to Leonard on refWrite Backpage.


Asturias Awards winners in Literature
( 1981 - 2011 )

• 1981: José Hierro
• 1982: Miguel Delibes and Gonzalo Torrente Ballester
• 1983: Juan Rulfo
• 1984: Pablo García Baena
• 1985: Ángel González
• 1986: Mario Vargas Llosa and Rafael Lapesa
• 1987: Camilo José Cela
• 1988: José Angel Valente and Carmen Martín Gaite
• 1989: Ricardo Gullón
• 1990: Arturo Uslar Pietri
• 1991: The people of Puerto Rico
• 1992: Francisco Nieva
• 1993: Claudio Rodríguez
• 1994: Carlos Fuentes
• 1995: Carlos Bousoño
• 1996: Francisco Umbral
• 1997: Álvaro Mutis
• 1998: Francisco Ayala
• 1999: Günter Grass
• 2000: Augusto Monterroso
• 2001: Doris Lessing
• 2002: Arthur Miller
• 2003: Fatema Mernissi and Susan Sontag
• 2004: Claudio Magris
• 2005: Nélida Piñon
• 2006: Paul Auster
• 2007: Amos Oz
• 2008: Margaret Atwood
• 2009: Ismail Kadare
• 2010: Amin Maalouf
• 2011: Leonard Cohen

-- Audioviz