Since the death of the poet and literary critic Carlos Bousoño (1923-2015) the letter 'M' of the RAE remains vacant. Yesterday the third vote was held to choose the candidate who would have the honor of occupying such a seat but there was a technical tie between the writers Rosa Montero and Carlos García Gual, each of them obtaining 16 votes and 2 that would be blank. The majority required to be able to have a letter in the RAE is 18 votes, so both one and the other must continue waiting for another vote to be held in order to be part of the RAE.
As you surely know there are a total of 46 academic chairs and currently only the 'M' as we have already pointed out previously and the 'J', chair that he occupied at the time the playwright and painter Francisco Nieva, who died last November 2016. Very recently, specifically on April 6 (a month ago) the seat corresponding to the letter 'K' that until her death it had been for Ana María Matute. The chosen one was Federico Corriente, a candidacy that had been proposed by Juan Gil, Miguel Sáenz and Aurora Egido.
The candidacy of Rosa Montero, would be backed by Margarita Salas, Carme Riera and Pedro Álvarez de Miranda; while a Carlos Garcia Gual It is supported by the authors Francisco Rodríguez Adrados, Juan Luis Cebrián and Carmen Iglesias.
Current seats in the RAE
Currently, the honorary seats of the RAE would be distributed as follows:
- A: Manuel Seco, philologist (1980)
- to: Pedro García Barreno, physician and essayist (2006)
- B: Aurora Egido, philologist (2014)
- b: Miguel Sáenz, translator and lawyer (2013)
- C: Luis Goytisolo, writer (1995)
- c: Víctor García de la Concha, Literature historian and honorary Director (1992)
- D: Darío Villanueva, philologist and literary critic, Director of the RAE (2008)
- d: Francisco Rodríguez Adrados, philologist and Hellenist (1991)
- E: Carmen Iglesias, historian (2002)
- e: Juan Gil Fernández, Latinist and medievalist; Deputy Secretary of the RAE (2011)
- F: Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón, filmmaker and writer (2016)
- f: José B. Terceiro, economist (2012)
- G: José Manuel Sánchez Ron, physicist and historian of science; Deputy Director of the RAE (2003)
- g: Soledad Puértolas, writer (2010)
- H: Félix de Azúa, writer (2016)
- h: José Manuel Blecua Perdices, philologist (2006)
- I: Luis Mateo Díez, writer (2001)
- i: Margarita Salas, biochemist and censor, (2003)
- J: vacant chair
- j: Álvaro Pombo, writer (2004)
- K: Federico Corriente Córdoba, Arabist (2017, still to take office)
- k: José Antonio Pascual, linguist (2002)
- L: Mario Vargas Llosa, writer and essayist (1996)
- l: Emilio Lledó, philosopher (1994)
- M: vacant chair
- m: José María Merino, writer (2009)
- N: Guillermo Rojo, linguist and treasurer (2001)
- n: Carme Riera, writer and professor of literature; First deputy vowel (2013)
- Ñ: Luis María Anson, journalist and businessman (1998)
- O: Pere Gimferrer, poet, essayist and translator (1985)
- o: Antonio Fernández Alba, architect and essayist (2006)
- P: Inés Fernández-Ordóñez, philologist and Second Deputy Member (2011)
- p: Francisco Rico, historian and philologist (1987)
- Q: Pedro Álvarez de Miranda, philologist and lexicographer; Librarian (2011)
- q: Gregorio Salvador Caja, philologist (1987)
- A: Javier Marías, writer and translator (2008)
- r: Santiago Muñoz Machado, lawyer and Secretary of the RAE (2013)
- S: Salvador Gutiérrez Ordóñez, linguist (2008)
- s: Paz Battaner, philologist and lexicographer (2017)
- T: Arturo Pérez-Reverte, writer and journalist (2003)
- t: Ignacio Bosque, linguist (1997)
- U: Clara Janés, poet and translator (2016)
- u: Antonio Muñoz Molina, writer (1996)
- V: Juan Luis Cebrián, journalist, writer and businessman (1997)
- X: Francisco Brines, poet (2006)
- Z: José Luis Gómez, theater director and actor (2014)