Spanish novelist Ana Maria Matute was named this year's recipient of the €125,000 (US$165,388) Cervantes prize, becoming only the third woman to the award for literary works in Spanish since it began in 1973, the Independent reported. Matute's works, including The Lost Children and Soldiers Cry by Night, have been translated into 23 languages. She will be honored April 23, on the anniversary of Cervantes' death in 1616.
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