Miguel de Cervantes Prize

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Miguel de Cervantes Prize
Medal of the Miguel de Cervantes Prize.svg
Medal of the Miguel de Cervantes Prize
Country Spain
Presented by Ministry of Culture
Reward €125,000
First awarded 1976

The Miguel de Cervantes Prize (Spanish: Premio de Literatura en Lengua Castellana Miguel de Cervantes), established in 1976, is awarded annually to honour the lifetime achievement of an outstanding writer in the Spanish language. The prize rewards authors from any Spanish-speaking nation, and recognizes the recipient's overall body of work. The award is named after Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote.

The candidates are proposed by the Association of Spanish Language Academies, and the prize is awarded by the Ministry of Culture of Spain. The winner receives a monetary award of 125,000 euros, it is one of the richest literary prizes in the world and one of the most prestigious in the Spanish language.[1]

The Cervantes Prize and the Nobel Prize in Literature

Two winners of the Cervantes Prize, Octavio Paz (Cervantes 1981, Nobel 1990) and Mario Vargas Llosa (Cervantes 1994, Nobel 2010) were awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in subsequent years. Camilo José Cela first received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1989 and was awarded the Cervantes Prize in 1995.

Winners

The list of winners is available at the official Premio 'Miguel Cervantes' website.[2]

Year Winner Country Genre(s)
1976 75px Jorge Guillén  Spain poetry
1977 Alejocarpentier.jpg Alejo Carpentier  Cuba novel, essay
1978 75px Dámaso Alonso  Spain poetry
1979[3] Jorge Luis Borges 1951, by Grete Stern.jpg Jorge Luis Borges  Argentina short story, poetry, essay, translation
75px Gerardo Diego  Spain poetry
1980 75px Juan Carlos Onetti  Uruguay novel
1981 Octavio Paz - 1988 Malmö.jpg Octavio Paz  Mexico poetry, essay
1982 Luis Rosales  Spain poetry
1983 RafaelAlberti01.JPG Rafael Alberti  Spain poetry
1984 75px Ernesto Sabato  Argentina novel, essay
1985 Gonzalo Torrente Ballester-ERREKA.jpg Gonzalo Torrente Ballester  Spain novel
1986 75px Antonio Buero Vallejo  Spain drama
1987 Carlos Fuentes.jpg Carlos Fuentes  Mexico novel, essay
1988 75px María Zambrano  Spain philosophy, essay
1989 75px Augusto Roa Bastos  Paraguay novel
1990 75px Adolfo Bioy Casares  Argentina novel, short story
1991 75px Francisco Ayala  Spain novel, short story, essay, translation
1992 Dulce frente a su escritorio.jpg Dulce María Loynaz  Cuba poetry
1993 Placa a Miguel Delibes en la Calle Santiago de Valladolid.jpg Miguel Delibes  Spain novel
1994 75px Mario Vargas Llosa  Peru novel, essay, short story, drama
1995 75px Camilo José Cela  Spain novel
1996 José García Nieto  Spain poetry
1997 75px Guillermo Cabrera Infante  Cuba novel
1998 75px José Hierro  Spain poetry
1999 75px Jorge Edwards  Chile novel
2000 75px Francisco Umbral  Spain novel, essay
2001 Álvaro Mutis  Colombia poetry, novel
2002 75px José Jiménez Lozano  Spain novel
2003 Gonzalo Rojas - PUC.jpg Gonzalo Rojas  Chile poetry
2004 75px Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio  Spain novel, essay
2005 Sergio Pitol  Mexico novel
2006 75px Antonio Gamoneda  Spain poetry
2007 Juan Gelman -presidenciagovar- 31JUL07.jpg Juan Gelman  Argentina poetry
2008 75px Juan Marsé  Spain novel
2009 75px José Emilio Pacheco  Mexico poetry, novel, short story
2010 75px Ana María Matute  Spain novel
2011 75px Nicanor Parra  Chile poetry
2012 75px José Manuel Caballero Bonald  Spain poetry, novel
2013 75px Elena Poniatowska  Mexico novel
2014 Juan-goytisolo.jpg Juan Goytisolo  Spain novel, essay
2015 75px Fernando del Paso  Mexico novel, poetry, essay, drama, short story

Winners per country

 Spain 21
 Mexico 6
 Argentina 4
 Chile 3
 Cuba 3
 Colombia 1
 Paraguay 1
 Peru 1
 Uruguay 1
Total 41

Notes and references

  1. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/103671/Cervantes-Prize
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  3. Ex-aequo award.

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