Carles Cortés, a professor of literature in the Department of Catalan Philology at the University of Alicante, has been honoured at the third edition of the Antonio Roig Roselló awards, presented by the Ibiza-based association Sa Clau de s’Armari. The award recognises his efforts in the rescue, preservation, and promotion of the historical memory of the LGTBIQA+ community.
The awards ceremony took place on Saturday at the Espacio Cultural Sa Peixateria in Ibiza. Alongside Cortés, the 2026 awards also recognised notable figures such as intersex activist Camino Baró, Federico Armenteros, president of the Fundación 26 de Diciembre, and the theatre group Entrepares.
Cortés has been a professor at the University of Alicante since 2002 and is a member of the Research Group on Contemporary Literature and Transversal Studies: literature and other arts in the Western Mediterranean. In 2023, he became the director of the Alicante headquarters of the Institut Interuniversitari de Filologia Valenciana.
His previous roles include serving as the university's vice-rector for Culture, Sports, and Language Policy from 2012 to 2020, and director of the Cultural Secretariat from 2005 to 2012. He has also held various academic positions since 1996.
Cortés is a member of several prestigious organisations, including the International Association of Catalan Language and Literature and the International Research Team on Code Interference (TRAVERSES) at the Université Paris VIII-Saint Denis.
He holds a degree in Hispanic Philology with a focus on Valencian studies and completed his doctorate in Catalan Language and Literature in 1999. His research has been supported by public funding for various projects, including studies on autobiographical forms in contemporary Catalan literature and the reception of Maghreb literature.
As a fiction author, Cortés has published several novels, including Veu de dona (2001), Marta dibuixa ponts (2003), and Diaris creuats (2024), as well as plays such as Fets de rei (2008) and La dona sense atributs (2013).
