Miguel de Cervantes Prize
| Miguel de Cervantes Prize | |
|---|---|
 Medal of the Miguel de Cervantes Prize | |
| 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.
Contents
1 History
1.1 The Cervantes Prize and the Nobel Prize in Literature
2 Laureates
3 Laureates per country
4 Notes and references
5 External links
History
The prize was established in 1975 by the Ministry of Culture of Spain and first awarded the following year.[1] The Encyclopædia Britannica calls it "most prestigious and remunerative award given for Spanish-language literature".[1] The winner receives a monetary award of 125,000 euros, which makes it one of the richest literary prizes in the world.[2] The prize rewards authors from any Spanish-speaking nation and recognizes the recipient's overall body of work.[1] The award is named after Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote.[2] The candidates are proposed by the Association of Spanish Language Academies (i.e., the Royal Spanish Academy).[3]
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.
Laureates
The list of winners is available at the official Premio 'Miguel Cervantes' website.[4]
| Year | Winner | Country | Genre(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| 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 | 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 |
Laureates per country
The following table shows the number of laureates per country:
| Rank | Country | Laureates |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spain | 22 |
| 2 | Mexico | 6 |
| 3 | Argentina | 4 |
| 4 | Chile | 3 |
| 4 | Cuba | 3 |
| 6 | Uruguay | 2 |
| 7 | Colombia | 1 |
| 7 | Nicaragua | 1 |
| 7 | Paraguay | 1 |
| 7 | Peru | 1 |
| Total | 44 |
Notes and references
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^ ab Jonathan Wolfe (November 12, 2015). "Fernando del Paso Wins Miguel de Cervantes Prize". New York Times. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
^ "Cervantes Prize". donquijote.org. 2014. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
^ "Premio "Miguel de Cervantes"" (in Spanish). Spain: Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte. Retrieved November 30, 2012.
^ Ex-aequo award.
External links
Miguel de Cervantes Prize at the Ministry of Culture
Miguel de Cervantes Prize El poder de la palabra (in Spanish)
