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Margaret Atwood, Prince Of Asturias Award Laureate For Letters
The Canadian writer Margaret Atwood has been bestowed with the 2008 Prince of Asturias Award for Letters. The decision was announced by the Jury in Oviedo today.
The leading figure in Canadian literature and one of the most outstanding voices of contemporary fiction, Margaret Atwood offers in her novels a politically committed, critical view of the world and contemporary society, while revealing extraordinary sensitivity in her copious poetical oeuvre, a genre which she cultivates with great skill.
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Betancourt, candidata al Premio Príncipe de Asturias de la Concordia
Betancourt, candidate for the Prize Prince of Asturias of the Concord
Ingrid Betancourt, liberated yesterday by the Colombian army after remaining kidnapped from 2002 by the FARC, is candidate to the Prize Prince of Asturias of the Concord 2008, which will be trumped in Oviedo next September.
Personalities and institutions of the whole world has proposed for this award the politic of Colombian and French nationality and the hostages previously liberated Clara Rojas and Consuelo Gonzalez de Perdomo .
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Rafael Nadal, 2008 Prince of Asturias Award for Sports
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Rafael Nadal, 2008 Prince of Asturias Award for Sports
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Congratulations to Rafa, he deserves it!!
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09-03-2008, 01:42 PM
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I think this was an obvious choice!
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He really deserves it!!
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as much as i like ingrid and felt bad during her kidnapping, i doubt she is a good candidate for a price such as the nobel peace prize or the prince of asturias. being kidnapped is not something she chose and is definitely not something that has a direct impact in the end of the FARC. now, if she decided to engage in activities to promote dialogue or to free the other people in the jungle and showed change by her activities in the next couple of years, that would be worth of a prize, in my opinion. i'm disappointed that the other candidates to the prize, who worked hard to achieve peace and wellbeing of people during years, are seeing their candidatures being left out. it's obvious the prince of asturias foundation wants to attract press and hype to the prizes and ingrid seemed to be the perfect way of doing so.
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Thanks carlota i had been wondering when the actual ceremony is
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Thanks carlota i had been wondering when the actual ceremony is
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as much as i like ingrid and felt bad during her kidnapping, i doubt she is a good candidate for a price such as the nobel peace prize or the prince of asturias. being kidnapped is not something she chose and is definitely not something that has a direct impact in the end of the FARC. now, if she decided to engage in activities to promote dialogue or to free the other people in the jungle and showed change by her activities in the next couple of years, that would be worth of a prize, in my opinion. i'm disappointed that the other candidates to the prize, who worked hard to achieve peace and wellbeing of people during years, are seeing their candidatures being left out. it's obvious the prince of asturias foundation wants to attract press and hype to the prizes and ingrid seemed to be the perfect way of doing so.
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I agree with you. The time span from the moment of her release to this point of giving her the prize is just too short to fully establish if the peace and social change that they were campaigning had really been achieved. It was a triumph that she was freed, yes, but that doesn't equate to bringing peace. FARC is still in Colombia, after all.
The same also goes for Rafa Nadal. While I felt like crying when he finally broke through and won Wimbledon, he is not yet even into the prime of his career. It's a bit premature to give him the award, I think. He still has many years ahead, and I'd better appreciate it if he was given the award when he has retired after solid years of playing top tennis.
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GUSTAVO DUDAMEL TO CONDUCT THE SIMON BOLIVAR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FOR THE FINALE OF THE XVII MUSIC WEEK
Gustavo Dudamel to conduct the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra for the finale concert of the XVII Music Week, which will be presided by Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Asturias. The Simon Bolivar Orchestra, best exponent of the National Network of Youth and Children Orchestras of Venezuela (2008 Prince of Asturias Award Laureates for the Arts), will perform the Symphony No. 2 in C minor "Resurrection" by Gustav Mahler.
GUSTAVO DUDAMEL TO CONDUCT THE SIMON BOLIVAR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FOR THE FINALE OF THE XVII MUSIC WEEK
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Atwood, Betancourt and Todorov will declare the speeches in the ceremony of delivery
The Prizes Prince of Asturias of the Letters, Margaret Atwood; of the Concord, Ingrid Betancourt, and of Social Sciences, Tzvetan Todorov, they will be the managers of the speeches declare this year in the ceremony of delivery of these awards, which fulfill edition XXVIII.
La Nueva España - Diario Independiente de Asturias - Sociedad y Cultura - Atwood, Betancourt y Todorov pronunciarán los discursos en la ceremonia de entrega
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Acts of the Prince and Princess of Asturias in Oviedo
(out of the agenda of the Prizes Prince of Asturias)
Wednesday 22
Visit to the exhibition ' Crosses of the Art '
Thursday 23
Visit to to the Public School Gesta I of Oviedo
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Activities of the Prince and the Princess of Asturias on the occasion of the delivery of Prince of Asturias Awards 2008
Thursday 23
Audiences in the Lounge of Councils of the La Reconquista Hotel
- The awardwinners with the Medals of Asturias 2008
- Prizes End of Career University of Oviedo 2007
- Asturian mass media
- Association of Help to persons with Cerebral Paralysis ASPACE Oviedo
- Asturian Club of the Innovation
- Association of Young Businessmen of Asturias
- Writers' Association of Gijon
Concert of closing of the Week XVII of Music, organized by the Foundation Prince of Asturias and Cajastur, that there will take place in the AudiTORIUM Prince Felipe of Oviedo.
The director of the Symphonic Orchestra Simón Bolívar, Gustavo Dudamel, will direct this concert. The Symphonic Orchestra Simón Bolivar, Prize Prince of Asturias of the Arts 2008, accompanied by the Choir of the Foundation Prince of Asturias and with the voices soloists of Magda Nieves (soprano) and Hadar Halevy (mezzo) will interpret the Symphony n.o 2 in minor Do 'Resurrection' of G. Mahler
Friday 24
Meeting with the presidents of the Jurors, the members of the patronage Prince and Foundation and the awardwinners the Prince of Asturias Awards 2008.
Ceremony of delivery of the awards, which fulfill its edition XXVIII and which will take place at 18:30 in the Theatre Campoamor of Oviedo
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Delivery of the Prize to the Exemplary Village of Asturias 2008 to Torazu (Cabranes).
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The Simon Bolivar Orchestra is very impressive! I think that it was a very wise choice to award them the arts award.
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Activities of the Prince and the Princess of Asturias on the occasion of the delivery of Prince of Asturias Awards 2008
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On Thursday 23, The Princes will visit the School "La Gesta", Letizia´s firts school in Oviedo
And on Wenesday 22, the Princes will opend the exhibition "Cruces del Arte" in Oviedo
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