The Prado Museum announces that Olga Tokarczuk (Nobel Prize 2018) and John Banville (Prince of Asturias Award for Letters 2014) have been selected for the second edition of the ‘Writing the Prado’ residency programMonday, January 29, 2024
The Prado Museum and LOEWE FOUNDATION are pleased to announce that Olga Tokarczuk, the 2018 Nobel Laureate in Literature, and John Banville the 2014 Prince of Asturias Laureate in Literature, have been selected to participate in the ‘Writing the Prado’ residency program, a joint initiative with the LOEWE FOUNDATION, in collaboration with Spanish Granta. The program invites internationally renowned writers to engage with the museum’s collections and its rich history as a source of inspiration for literary creation.
The Writing the Prado residency program launched in 2023 and welcomed John M. Coetzee (2003 Nobel Prize for Literature) and Chloe Aridjis (2020 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction) as the first writers in residence. Works by each of the participating authors will be published jointly by the Museum and prestigious literary magazine Granta as part of ‘the Prado Fiction Collection’. Coetzee and Aridjis’ works will be published in 2024.
Olga Tokarczuk will be in residence at the Prado Museum, Madrid in spring 2024, and John Banville in fall 2024, where they will have the opportunity to engage with the Museum, its art works, private and public collections, artists, galleries and buildings. Each author will write a short piece inspired by their time at the Museum, exploring the expressive possibilities at the threshold between fiction and the visual arts. During their residencies, Tokarczuk and Banville will also participate in a series of public talks.
