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07 de junio de 2012, 00:01Madrid, Jun 7 (Prensa Latina) U.S. writer Philip Roth was honored today with the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature 2012, announced by the foundation that bears the name of the heir to the Spanish crown and creator of the award.
Born in Newark, Ney Jersey on March 19, 1933, Roth is the second son of a Jewish-American family which emigrated from the European region of Galicia (Ukraine) and is considered one of his country’s best writers in the past 25 years.
His narrative is that of the great U.S. novel in the tradition of Dos Passos, Scott Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner, Bellow or Malamud, said the foundation in a statement.
His a literary quality is displayed in his fluent and incisive writing, said the jury in its decision issued in Oviedo, capital of the Principality of Asturias.
Proposed for the Nobel Prize in Literature on numerous occasions, the author of “American Pastoral,” which won the Pulitzer in 1998, was mentioned by the literary critic Harold Bloom as among the four most important living American writers.
Among his works stand “Goodbye, Columbus” (1959), a book of stories about the Jewish life in U.S; “Escape” (1962), “Portnoy’s Complaint” (1969), “The Ghost Writer” (1979), “The Anatomy Lesson” (1983), “Everyman” (2006), and “Nemesis” (2010).
By awarding the prize to Roth, the award’s universal nature remains intact, initiated in 1999 with the prize given to Günter Grass.
The last 11 editions of the award have not gone to a Spanish language writer, since the Guatemalan Augusto Monterroso (1921-2003) received the prize in 2000.
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