Timothy Garton Ash receives the 2026 Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences
Historian, journalist and essayist and St Antony’s College Emeritus Fellow, Timothy Garton Ash, has been granted the 2026 Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences, as announced on 26 May 2026 by the Jury responsible for conferring the Award.
Convened by the Princess of Asturias Foundation, the Jury for the Award was chaired by Emilio Lamo de Espinosa Michels de Champourcin and composed of Marta Elvira Rojo, Jorge Freire Gutiérrez, Teresa Freixes Sanjuán, Javier Garciadiego Dantán, Pablo Hernández de Cos, Silvia Iranzo Gutiérrez, Ricardo Martí Fluxá, Manuel Menéndez Menéndez, Sir Robin Niblett, Leandro Prados de la Escosura, María Dolores Puga González, Valerio Rocco Lozano, Fernando Vallespín Oña, Astrid Wagner and Jaime Pérez Renovales (acting as secretary).
Timothy was put forward by Rosa Navarro Durán, Professor Emeritus at the University of Barcelona.
“I am honoured and delighted to join the very distinguished list of recipients of the Princess of Asturias Awards. I take this also as a further mark of the intellectual community of Europe – and beyond – that we need more than ever in these difficult times for our continent and for the pursuit of truth.” Timothy Garton Ash
As is customary, the presentation of the Princess of Asturias Awards will take place in October in a solemn ceremony presided over by Their Majesties The King and Queen, accompanied by Their Royal Highnesses The Princess of Asturias and Infanta Sofía.
Each Princess of Asturias Award comprises a Joan Miró sculpture symbolizing the Award, a diploma, an insignia and a cash prize of fifty thousand euros.
