The King and Queen of Spain chair the Board of Trustees of the Cervantes Institute

The King Felipe and Queen Letizia of Spain will chair the annual meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Cervantes Institute - the institution's highest governing body - at the Royal Palace of Aranjuez on Tuesday 4 October (from 12:30 pm).

In addition to Don Felipe and Doña Letizia, the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez; the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, José Manuel Albares; of Education and Vocational Training, Pilar Alegría, and of Culture and Sport, Miquel Iceta; the Secretary of State for Latin America and the Caribbean and Spanish in the World and President of the Board of Directors of the Cervantes Institute, Juan Fernández Trigo; Luis García Montero, Director of the Cervantes Institute; and Carmen Noguero, Secretary General of Cervantes, will attend this annual meeting of the Board of Trustees.

Also attending, among other patrons, are the director of the Royal Spanish Academy, Santiago Muñoz Machado; the rector of the University of Salamanca, Ricardo Rivero Ortega; the screenwriter and film director, winner of the National Film Award, Isabel Coixet; the flamenco singer and Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts, Carmen Linares; the Colombian writer Piedad Bonnett; the Mexican narrator and essayist, Gonzalo Celorio, as well as the Italian Hispanist and philologist Gabriele Morelli, who will receive the Ñ 2022 Award from Felipe VI.

At the end of the meeting, the King and Queen of Spain will offer the patrons and the Ibero-American Diplomatic Corps accredited in Spain a lunch that will begin with a toast from King Felipe VI.

Submitted by José Antonio Sierra, Hispanism Advisor.