🔸Cristina Fernandez Cubas, a Spanish writer and journalist, whose collection of novels "Nona's Room" was translated into Persian, won the Cervantes Prize for 2026, the most prestigious literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world.
Spain's Ministry of Culture announced that this 81-year-old writer was chosen to receive this award due to his prominent role in the evolution of the contemporary short story and his influence on Spanish-language fantasy literature.
In explaining his choice, the jury announced that Fernandez Cubas gave new life to the contemporary short story with his works and had a decisive influence on fantasy literature in Spanish.
Cristina Fernandez Covas was born in 1945 in Barnis de Mar, near Barcelona. He studied law and journalism and began his career as a journalist.
He is best known for his short stories, but he also wrote several novels. The collections of short stories "Nona's Room" and "The Angle of Terror" and the novel "The Year of Disruption" are among his works, which have also been translated into English.