The Awarding Ceremony will take place on Saturday 7 of July at the Teatro Rialto of Valencia. The comedian Xavi Castillo will play in the event. A new publication of the magazine dedicated to the 17th edition of the awards, which has 18 modalities, will be released on Friday 6.

Javier de Lucas is a professor of Legal Philosophy and Political Philosophy of the Universitat de València. He founded and was the first director of both courses. He has been the Head of the Colegio de España in Paris (2005-2012) and the President of the Spanish Refugee Aid Commission (CEAR, 2008-2009). He is the vowel of the Advisory Board for the National Preventive Mechanism. He is a member of several national and international scientific and editorial boards. He is one of the 24 members of the High Panel on Science, Technology and Innovation for Development of the Unesco named by the General Secretary, Irina Bukova. De Lucas published Mediterráneo: el naufragio de Europa (editorial Tirant) as well as other 20 books and more than 300 articles in scientific national and international magazines. He addresses human rights issues, legitimacy, democracy, citizenship and the obedience to the Law.

He wrote his first novel (De vampiros y otros asuntos amorosos) in 1984. The last one, La noche en que los Beatles llegaron a Barcelona, was published last February. He has published another dozen of novels.  Esas vidas was finalist of the National Narrative Award 2010. Two of them were written in Catalan: L’home mort and Els paradisos artificials. He has also published three books with his journalistic articles.  La mirada de Karenin, Diario de la frontera, Gürtel&Company: Una aventura valenciana. Another book collects his conferences, articles and prologues to somebody else’s narratives, on what is called historic memory. Yo no voy a olvidar porque otros quieran. His complete poetry works are gathered in the collection Los cuerpos del delito. All his novels are published by the editorial Montesinos.