MADRID, 1 Sep.

Paula Carballeira Cabana has been awarded the National Prize for Dramatic Literature, corresponding to the year 2023, for her work 'As alumnas' (Editorial Galaxia), proposed by the jury meeting on Friday, September 1. The prize, awarded by the Ministry of Culture and Sports, is endowed with 30,000 euros.

The jury has highlighted the work of the Galician author "for being a praise of teaching that teaches about doubt and debate," according to the Ministry. "For its dramatic values, the richness of nuances and for the recovery of a reference woman for Galician education, a symbol of the modern, egalitarian and transformative education proposed by the Second Republic," it adds.

Likewise, the jury wanted to highlight how "the author, through rigorous research, proposes to the public a text that pays homage to all teachers and to the model of a secular, free and advanced pedagogy."

The prize was awarded in its last edition to Josep Maria Miró Coromina, joining a long list of awardees, including Pablo Remón, Guillem Clua, Alberto Conejero, Yolanda García Serrano, Alfredo Sanzol, Juan Mayorga or Angélica Liddell, among others.

The jury has been chaired by María José Gálvez Salvador, Director General of the Book, Comics and Reading at the Ministry of Culture and Sports; and as vice-president, Almudena Hernández de la Torre Chicote, deputy director-general of the Subdirectorate General for the promotion of the Book, Reading and Spanish Letters at the Ministry of Culture and Sports.

Among the members are Aurora Gloria Egido Martínez, proposed by the Royal Spanish Academy; Celia Pereira Porto, by the Royal Galician Academy; María Aitzpea Goenaga Mendiola, by the Royal Academy of the Basque Language; Gabriel Sansano Belso, by the Institute of Catalan Studies; Maria Josep Marín Jordà, by the Valencian Academy of Language; and Francisco Domínguez Matito, by the Conference of Rectors of Spanish Universities (CRUE).

There have also been members such as Nieves Rodríguez Rodríguez, by the Collegiate Association of Writers of Spain-Association of Theater Authors (ACE-ATT); Luis Alberto de Cuenca y Prado, by the Spanish Association of Literary Critics; María del Carmen del Riego de Lucas, by the Federation of Associations of Journalists of Spain (FAPE); Isabel Ortega Sánchez, by the Gender Studies Center of the UNED; Juana Natividad Escabias Toro, by the Ministry of Culture and Sports; and Josep Maria Miró Coromina, author awarded in the 2022 call.