The Mexican novelist, essayist, editor, and literary critic Gonzalo Celorio (Mexico City, 1948) has been proclaimed the winner of the 2025 Cervantes Prize. Celorio, who is currently the director of the Mexican Academy of Language—and who, from 2000 to 2002, directed the Ministry of Culture—was awarded the prize in 1990 with the essay The muted era (Lime and Sand), and shortly afterwards published his first novel, Self-love (Tusquets, 1992), in which he narrates the protagonist's return to Mexico City, where he must confront his past and the city's decay.