Though little known in the U.S., Delibes is a member of Spain's Royal Academy and a winner, along with Vargas Lllosa, Cabrera Infante and Alvaro Mutis, of the CervantesPrize.
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Still, the Nobel was good to have, and in 1995 he was awarded the Cervantesprize, which he had coveted and grumbled that it had come along rather late in the day.
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The event began last year as a way of celebrating Spain's National Book Day, but it also coincides with the award of the CervantesPrize for Literature, the Spanish-speaking world's equivalent of the Nobel Prize for Literature.