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<\/a><\/p>\nForges concluded his acceptance speech with a tribute to the poet Miguel Hern\u00e1ndez, to whom he dedicated a vignette that included the words, \u201cFor freedom, I sing, dance, and smile.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The Rector of the UMH, Jes\u00fas Pastor Ciurana, presided over the event. Also in attendance were the President of the Board of Trustees, Francisco Borja Miralles, the UMH Registrar, Mercedes S\u00e1nchez Castillo, the Director General of University, Higher Education and Science, Felipe Palau Ram\u00edrez, in addition to the Rector of the Universitat Jaume I and President of the Conference of Rectors of Valencian Universities (CRUV), Vicent Climent Jord\u00e0.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0This artist, son of a Galician father and Catalan mother, was born in Madrid in 1942. When he was 14, he began working as a film scanning technician at Spanish public television (TVE). He left the staff of TVE to engage professionally in graphic humor. In 1964, he published his first cartoon in the newspaper Pueblo. In 1982, he began publishing the editorial cartoon in Diario 16 and then in El Mundo. Since 1995, he has been in charge of the editorial cartoon of El Pa\u00eds, and he is currently also involved in the radio program No es un d\u00eda Cualquiera with Pepa Fern\u00e1ndez at Radio Nacional de Espa\u00f1a (RNE).<\/p>\n
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Forges is an honorary member of the Journalist Association of Catalonia, and in 2012 was appointed technical director of the Quevedo Humor Institute. He has been awarded several prizes, including the Libertad de Expresi\u00f3n of the Uni\u00f3n de Periodistas de Espa\u00f1a and the Creu de Sant Jordi, the highest Catalonian honor. In 2007, Forges was awarded the Medalla de Oro al M\u00e9rito en el Trabajo by the Council of Ministers and, in December 2013, he received the Premio Nacional de Periodismo Pedro Antonio de Alarc\u00f3n in recognition for his professional career.<\/p>\n