Argentine poet Juan Gelman the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world’s highest literary honour.

Gelman, who receives 90,000 euros with the award, is considered Argentina’s poet laureate. His prolific work addresses among other issues the pain of loss under military juntas that ruled his country in the 1970s and 80s.

Argentine poet Juan Gelman, who wrote about the pain of loss under his country’s military juntas, has , the Spanish-speaking world’s top literary award.