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, Jan 27 ( Reuters ) .- Director of id=”lw_1327695042_2″> class=”yshortcuts” between 1998 and 2010, Victor Garcia la Concha has been named director of the Institute today class=”yshortcuts” Cervantes , among others reasons their extensive experience in working in the service of the Spanish language in collaboration with the Spanish-American institutions.
“What is the bottom of my appointment Garcia de la Concha told EFE, is the belief that the teaching of Spanish language must be continuously enriched with the American view. Therefore, the Cervantes Institute must work in accordance with Spanish America. “
class=”yshortcuts” vice id=”lw_1327695042_8″> Spanish Government , Soraya Saenz de Santamaria, announced the new appointment after the meeting of the Council of Ministers.
designation of Garcia de la Concha comes a week after the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel Prize for Literature, rejected the Government’s offer to head the institution and ensure you continue to work with her, as it has done in recent years.
current director of the Cervantes is Carmen Caffarel, appointed in 2007.
During the twelve years he was director of the SAR and president of the association of all Spanish Language Academies, Garcia de la Concha enhanced the relationship with these institutions Hispanic, with works prepared the SAR as important as the “Pan-Hispanic Dictionary of doubt”, the “New Grammar of the Spanish language” and the new “Spelling.”
Cervantes, Garcia de la Concha said, “has as its mission the dissemination of Spanish language and Spanish culture, and the government understands that there I have a very wide experience. I thought it selfish of me not to accept this proposal, since it means that I can serve the country in that direction. “
scheme designed by the Government for the Cervantes is the one thought to Vargas Llosa, ie, García de la Concha is the director of the Institute, but the work will fall into a second executive who, according to government sources consulted by Efe, is Rafael Rodriguez Ponga, with extensive experience as CEO during previous Popular Party government.
Garcia de la Concha
yesterday received the call from the Minister of Education and Culture, José Ignacio Wert, and asked him a few hours to reflect on the proposal. Late in the afternoon accepted.
former director of the SAR is used to taking responsibility and the Government’s proposal seems to have taken no sleep. Today he spent the morning “working hours” in a commemorative edition of “The City and the Dogs” Vargas Llosa who are preparing Language Academies.
new director of Cervantes is not “no problem” that the government’s offer would have arrived after that carried out Vargas Llosa, a writer whose friendship academic honors this Spaniard.
“I have been offered this position and agree gustosísimo. It is an honor,” he said.
until now director of Instituto Cervantes, Carmen Caffarel, now considered “great” the appointment of Garcia la Concha, and has been convinced that the role of the institution will be “reinforced” with his appointment.
Caffarel, the image of the Spanish “is not just in Spain but of 500 million people” is going to be “reinforced” by the appointment of Garcia de la Concha.
expressed in similar terms other Spanish writers such as José Manuel Caballero Bonald, Soledad Puértolas, Luis Landeros and Manuel Rivas, who highlighted the effectiveness and Spanish love that has always been the new director of Cervantes.
