Spain’s King Juan Carlos gave Gelman a medal symbolizing the Cervantes Prize at a ceremony in Alcala De Henares, the birthplace of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, the author of “Don Quixote.”

Read entire article in International Herald Tribune (Culture section) by clicking here….Argentine poet Juan Gelman receives Spanish-speaking world’s highest literary honor

To read Gelman’s work in translation find out more “Unthinkable Tenderness: Selected Poems”—edited and translated into English by Joan Lindgren, with a foreword by Eduardo Galeano–click here.