Miguel de Cervantes Prize
Miguel de Cervantes Prize | |
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Country | Spain |
Presented by | Ministry of Culture |
Reward(s) | €125,000 |
First awarded | 1976 |
Website | CervantesPresentacion |
The Miguel de Cervantes Prize (Spanish: Premio de Literatura en Lengua Castellana Miguel de Cervantes) is awarded annually to honour the lifetime achievement of an outstanding writer in the Spanish language.
History
The prize was established in 1975 by the
As of the presentation of the 2023 award to Luis Mateo Díez, the recipients have been recognized for their writing of novels, poetry, short stories, essays, translations, philosophy or dramas – or for combinations thereof. With two winners in 1979, there have been 49 recipients of the Miguel de Cervantes Prize.
The Cervantes Prize and the Nobel Prize in Literature
Three of the 45 winners of the Miguel de Cervantes Prize have also won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Octavio Paz (Cervantes 1981, Nobel 1990) and Mario Vargas Llosa (Cervantes 1994, Nobel 2010), were awarded the Nobel Prize in subsequent years, while Camilo José Cela received the Nobel Prize in 1989 and was awarded the Cervantes Prize in 1995.
Laureates
The list of winners is available at the official Premio 'Miguel Cervantes' website.[4]
Year | Picture | Winner | Country | Genre(s) |
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1976 | Jorge Guillén | Spain | poetry | |
1977 | Alejo Carpentier | Cuba | novel, essay | |
1978 | Dámaso Alonso | Spain | poetry | |
1979[5] | Jorge Luis Borges | Argentina | short story, poetry, essay, translation | |
Gerardo Diego | Spain | poetry | ||
1980 | Juan Carlos Onetti | Uruguay | novel | |
1981 | Octavio Paz | Mexico | poetry, essay | |
1982 | Luis Rosales | Spain | poetry, essay | |
1983 | Rafael Alberti | Spain | poetry | |
1984 | Ernesto Sabato | Argentina | novel, essay | |
1985 | Gonzalo Torrente Ballester | Spain | novel | |
1986 | Antonio Buero Vallejo | Spain | drama | |
1987 | Carlos Fuentes | Mexico | novel, essay | |
1988 | María Zambrano | Spain | philosophy, essay | |
1989 | Augusto Roa Bastos | Paraguay | novel | |
1990 | Adolfo Bioy Casares | Argentina | novel, short story | |
1991 | Francisco Ayala | Spain | novel, short story, essay, translation | |
1992 | Dulce María Loynaz | Cuba | poetry | |
1993 | Miguel Delibes | Spain | novel | |
1994 | Mario Vargas Llosa | Peru | novel, essay, short story, drama | |
1995 | Camilo José Cela | Spain | novel | |
1996 | José García Nieto | Spain | poetry | |
1997 | Guillermo Cabrera Infante | Cuba | novel | |
1998 | José Hierro | Spain | poetry | |
1999 | Jorge Edwards | Chile | novel | |
2000 | Francisco Umbral | Spain | novel, essay | |
2001 | Álvaro Mutis | Colombia | poetry, novel | |
2002 | José Jiménez Lozano | Spain | novel | |
2003 | Gonzalo Rojas | Chile | poetry | |
2004 | Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio | Spain | novel, essay | |
2005 | Sergio Pitol | Mexico | novel | |
2006 | Antonio Gamoneda | Spain | poetry | |
2007 | Juan Gelman | Argentina | poetry | |
2008 | Juan Marsé | Spain | novel | |
2009 | José Emilio Pacheco | Mexico | poetry, novel, short story | |
2010 | Ana María Matute | Spain | novel | |
2011 | Nicanor Parra | Chile | poetry | |
2012 | José Manuel Caballero Bonald
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Spain | poetry, novel | |
2013 | Elena Poniatowska | Mexico | novel | |
2014 | Juan Goytisolo | Spain | novel, essay | |
2015 | Fernando del Paso | Mexico | novel, poetry, essay, drama, short story | |
2016 | Eduardo Mendoza | Spain | novel, drama | |
2017 | Sergio Ramírez | Nicaragua | novel, short story, essay | |
2018 | Ida Vitale | Uruguay | poetry, prose, essay | |
2019 | Joan Margarit
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Spain | poetry | |
2020 | Francisco Brines[6] | Spain | poetry | |
2021 | Cristina Peri Rossi | Uruguay | prose, poetry, short story, translation | |
2022 | Rafael Cadenas | Venezuela | poetry, essay | |
2023 | Luis Mateo Díez | Spain | novel, essay |
Laureates per country
The following table shows the number of laureates per country:
Rank | Country | Laureates |
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1 | Spain | 25 |
2 | Mexico | 6 |
3 | Argentina | 4 |
4 | Chile | 3 |
4 | Cuba | 3 |
4 | Uruguay | 3 |
7 | Colombia | 1 |
7 | Nicaragua | 1 |
7 | Paraguay | 1 |
7 | Peru | 1 |
7 | Venezuela | 1 |
Total | 49 |
Notes and references
- ^ a b c "Cervantes Prize | award". Britannica.com. 2014-11-25. Retrieved 2017-02-27.
- ^ a b Jonathan Wolfe (November 12, 2015). "Fernando del Paso Wins Miguel de Cervantes Prize". New York Times. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
- ^ "Miguel de Cervantes". donquijote.org. 2014. Archived from the original on 4 June 2023. Retrieved 4 June 2023.
- ^ "Premio "Miguel de Cervantes"" (in Spanish). Spain: Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte. Archived from the original on September 8, 2015. Retrieved November 30, 2012.
- ^ Two awarded in 1979
- ^ "Francisco Brines, premio Cervantes". lavanguardia.com. 2020-11-16. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
External links
- Miguel de Cervantes Prize at the Ministry of Culture
- Miguel de Cervantes Prize El poder de la palabra (in Spanish)