Editing Miguel Delibes (section)

=== 1980 and 1990: awards ===
[[File:Miguel Delibes (julio de 1991).tif|thumb|200px|left|Delibes in [[El Escorial]] (July 1991).]]
In 1980, the International Booksellers Seventh Congress that was held in Valladolid paid tribute to the writer. The big title of this period was'' Los santos inocentes'' (The Holy Innocents), published in 1981. The book is a form of social radiography that recounts the degradation of a rural family through the actions of the ''caciques'' of rural [[Extremadura]]. In 1982, he received the [[Prince of Asturias Awards|Prince of Asturias Award]] for Literature, sharing it with [[Gonzalo Torrente Ballester]];<ref>{{cite web |url=http://fundacionprincipedeasturias.org/premios/letras/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120702210613/http://fundacionprincipedeasturias.org/premios/letras/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=2 July 2012 |title=Galardonados con los Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras |author=Fundación Príncipe de Asturias |author-link=Premio Príncipe de Asturias |date=21 October 2009 }}</ref> and participated in the Congress "A literature for man", held in [[Reggio Emilia]], Italy. During this decade he published books on hunting, stories, and collections of newspaper articles. In 1983, he was inducted as [[Doctor honoris causa]] by the [[University of Valladolid]]. The following year, he was awarded the Castile and León Prize for Literature by the Regional Government.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://canales.nortecastilla.es/canales_provinciales/php2/web/portal/castilla/sitios/premios_cyl/documentacion/1985/1985-3.pdf |title=El Ministro de Cultura presidió ayer el acto de entrega del premio Castilla y León |author=El Norte de Castilla |author-link=El Norte de Castilla |date=8 June 1985 |access-date=21 October 2009 }}{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> In the same year, Miguel Delibes was named "author of the year" by the Spanish booksellers who bestowed the Golden Book award on him in recognition.<ref name="p. 45">Dirección General del Libro y Bibliotecas (Ministerio de Cultura) ''Miguel Delibes: Premio Nacional de las Letras Españolas 1991'', p. 45.</ref> At the end of the year, ''The Holy Innocents'' was adapted into a film. The actors [[Alfredo Landa]] and [[Francisco Rabal]] received the actor's award at the [[Cannes Film Festival]] for their roles in the movie.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/Premio/interpretacion/Alfredo/Landa/Francisco/Rabal/Palma/Oro/Wenders/festival/Cannes/elpepicul/19840524elpepicul_12/Tes/ |title =Premio de interpretación para Alfredo Landa y Francisco Rabal y Palma de Oro para Wenders en el festival de Cannes |newspaper =[[El País]] |date =24 May 1984 }}</ref> In 1985, he published ''El tesoro'' (The Treasure) and received the [[Order of Arts and Letters|Knight of Arts and Letters]] of the [[France|French Republic]]. In the following years he was named a favorite son of Valladolid, he published ''Castilla habla'' (Castile Speaks), got an honorary doctorate of the [[Complutense University of Madrid]] and attended the theatrical adaptation of works like ''The Red Leaf'' and ''The Wars of our Ancestors''.<ref name="p. 46">Dirección General del Libro y Bibliotecas (Ministerio de Cultura) ''Miguel Delibes: Premio Nacional de las Letras Españolas 1991'', p. 46.</ref> His 1987 book ''Madera de héroe'' (The Stuff of Heroes<ref>''The Stuff of heroes'', Miguel Delibes, translated from the Spanish by Frances M. Lopez-Morillas, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1990</ref>) deals with the notion of heroism during the Spanish Civil War. It won the Premio Ciudad de Barcelona.

On 7 May 1990, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by [[Saarland University]], Germany. A year later, on 30 May 1991, the [[Ministry of Culture (Spain)|Ministry of Culture]] awarded him the [[National Prize for Spanish Literature]].<ref name="p. 49">Dirección General del Libro y Bibliotecas (Ministerio de Cultura) ''Miguel Delibes: Premio Nacional de las Letras Españolas 1991'', p. 49.</ref> The [[University of Málaga]] paid homage to him at the V Contemporary Spanish Literature Congress, under the title ''Miguel Delibes: the writer, his work and readers.'' That year, he published'' Señora de rojo sobre fondo gris'' (Lady in red on a grey background), a clear evocation of his wife.<ref name="p. 46" /> In the following year the ''Meeting with Miguel Delibes'' was held in [[Madrid]]. It was organized on the occasion of the National Prize for Spanish Literature and included a total of seven conferences and four round tables that dealt with the works of Miguel Delibes.<ref name="p. 46" />