🔸Cristina Fernández Cubas, the Spanish writer and journalist whose short-story collection “Nona’s Room” has also been translated into Persian, has won the 2026 Cervantes Prize, the most prestigious literary award in the Spanish-speaking world.

🔸The Spanish Ministry of Culture announced that this 81-year-old writer was selected to receive the award in recognition of her outstanding role in the evolution of contemporary short fiction and her impact on Spanish-language imaginative literature.

🔸The jury, in explaining its decision, said that Fernández Cubas has revitalized contemporary short fiction with her works and made a defining impact on fantasy literature in the Spanish language.

🔸Cristina Fernández Cubas was born in 1945 in Arenys de Mar, near Barcelona. She studied law and journalism and began her professional career as a journalist.

🔸She is known primarily for her short stories, but she has also written several novels. Her story collections “Nona’s Room” and “The Angle of Horror,” and the novel “The Year of the Pause” are among her works, which have also been translated into English.