The most prestigious literary award in the Spanish-speaking world, the 2013 Cervantes Prize, has been awarded to Elena Poniatowska. The 82-year-old has published many novels, children’s books as well as nonfiction, including La Noche de Tlatelolco, (The Night of Tlatelolco), an oral history of the 1968  massacre of student protesters in Mexico City, which was the first account to challenge the official version of events that night, and implicated army troops in the killing. Both she and her publisher received death threats when it was released, notes the L.A. Times.

More on the awards ceremony in Madrid here.

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