Cervantes Prize: Cecilia Roth thanked on behalf Cristina Peri Rossi with a strongly feminist and anti-war speech
The Argentinian actress received the highest prize in Spanish-language literature on behalf of the Uruguayan writer, absent due to a health problem. “The reasons for wars are always the same: the desire for power and economic ambition. Something typically masculine”, defined Peri Rossi through the voice of Roth