Miguel de Cervantes Prize

Miguel de Cervantes Prize
Medal of the Miguel de Cervantes Prize.svg
Medal of the Miguel de Cervantes Prize
CountrySpain
Presented byMinistry of Culture
Reward(s)€125,000
First awarded1976
WebsiteCervantesPresentacion

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 Ministry of Culture of Spain and first awarded the following year. The Encyclopædia Britannica calls it "most prestigious and remunerative award given for Spanish-language literature". The winner receives a monetary award of 125,000 euros, which makes it one of the richest literary prizes in the world. The prize rewards authors from any Spanish-speaking nation and recognizes the recipient's overall body of work. Of the forty-seven prizes awarded in the history of the Cervantes Prize, only six have ever been awarded to women. In 1988, the Spanish writer María Zambrano (1904-1991) was the first to writer to be so honored. The award is named after Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote. The candidates are proposed by the Association of Spanish Language Academies (i.e., the Royal Spanish Academy).

As of the presentation of the 2019 award to Joan Margarit, 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 45 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.

Year Picture Winner Country Genre(s)
1976 Jorge Guillén y la infancia.jpg Jorge Guillén  Spain poetry
1977 Alejocarpentier.jpg Alejo Carpentier  Cuba novel, essay
1978 Dámaso Alonso.jpg Dámaso Alonso  Spain poetry
1979 Jorge Luis Borges 1951, by Grete Stern.jpg Jorge Luis Borges  Argentina short story, poetry, essay, translation
Monumento a Gerardo Diego.jpg Gerardo Diego  Spain poetry
1980 "Retrat de l'escriptor Juan Carlos Onetti (1909-1994)".png Juan Carlos Onetti  Uruguay novel
1981 Octavio Paz - 1988 Malmö.jpg Octavio Paz  Mexico poetry, essay
1982 Luis Rosales  Spain poetry, essay
1983 RafaelAlberti01.JPG Rafael Alberti  Spain poetry
1984 Ernesto Sábato 1945.jpg Ernesto Sabato  Argentina novel, essay
1985 Gonzalo Torrente Ballester-ERREKA.jpg Gonzalo Torrente Ballester  Spain novel
1986 Antonio Buero Vallejo.jpg Antonio Buero Vallejo  Spain drama
1987 Carlos Fuentes.jpg Carlos Fuentes  Mexico novel, essay
1988 María Zambrano ca. 1918.JPG María Zambrano  Spain philosophy, essay
1989 Escritor Augusto R. Bastos.jpg Augusto Roa Bastos  Paraguay novel
1990 Bioy.png Adolfo Bioy Casares  Argentina novel, short story
1991 Francisco Ayala.jpg Francisco Ayala  Spain novel, short story, essay, translation
1992 Dulce frente a su escritorio.jpg Dulce María Loynaz  Cuba poetry
1993 Miguel Delibes (1998) - 1.tif Miguel Delibes  Spain novel
1994 Mario Vargas Llosa (2010).jpg Mario Vargas Llosa  Peru novel, essay, short story, drama
1995 Camilo José Cela Madrid 1996.jpg Camilo José Cela  Spain novel
1996 José García Nieto  Spain poetry
1997 Guillermo cabrera infante.png Guillermo Cabrera Infante  Cuba novel
1998 José Hierro-SSReyes.jpg José Hierro  Spain poetry
1999 Jorge Edwards (Feria del Libro de Madrid, 6 de junio de 2008).jpg Jorge Edwards  Chile novel
2000 Francisco Umbral - Francisco Alejandro Pérez Martínez.jpg Francisco Umbral  Spain novel, essay
2001 Álvaro Mutis - A Pobra do Caramiñal.jpg Álvaro Mutis  Colombia poetry, novel
2002 José Jiménez Lozano.jpg José Jiménez Lozano  Spain novel
2003 Gonzalo Rojas - PUC.jpg Gonzalo Rojas  Chile poetry
2004 Sanchez Ferlosio.jpg Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio  Spain novel, essay
2005 Sergio Pitol  Mexico novel
2006 Antonio Gamoneda editado 2.jpg Antonio Gamoneda  Spain poetry
2007 Juan Gelman -presidenciagovar- 31JUL07.jpg Juan Gelman  Argentina poetry
2008 Juan Marsé.jpg Juan Marsé  Spain novel
2009 Jeppacheco.jpg José Emilio Pacheco  Mexico poetry, novel, short story
2010 Ana María Matute.jpg Ana María Matute  Spain novel
2011 Nicanor Parra (c. 1935).jpg Nicanor Parra  Chile poetry
2012 Caballero Bonald.jpg José Manuel Caballero Bonald  Spain poetry, novel
2013 YampolskyBookPresentation16.JPG Elena Poniatowska  Mexico novel
2014 Juan-goytisolo.jpg Juan Goytisolo  Spain novel, essay
2015 Fernando del Paso.jpg Fernando del Paso  Mexico novel, poetry, essay, drama, short story
2016 Eduardo Mendoza (Feria del Libro de Madrid, 6 de junio de 2008).jpg Eduardo Mendoza  Spain novel, drama
2017 Ramirez, Sergio.jpg Sergio Ramírez  Nicaragua novel, short story, essay
2018 Ida Vitale at Texas A&M University.jpg Ida Vitale  Uruguay poetry, prose, essay
2019 Joan Margarit i Consarnau.jpg Joan Margarit  Spain poetry
2020 Brines.JPG Francisco Brines  Spain poetry
2021 Cristina Peri.jpg Cristina Peri Rossi  Uruguay prose, poetry, short story, translation
2022 Rafael Cadenas.JPG Rafael Cadenas  Venezuela poetry, essay

Laureates per country

The following table shows the number of laureates per country:

Rank Country Laureates
1  Spain 24
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 48

Notes and references

  1. ^ a b c "Cervantes Prize | award". Britannica.com. 2014-11-25. Retrieved 2017-02-27.
  2. ^ a b Jonathan Wolfe (November 12, 2015). "Fernando del Paso Wins Miguel de Cervantes Prize". New York Times. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
  3. ^ "Cervantes Prize". donquijote.org. 2014. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
  4. ^ "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.
  5. ^ Two awarded in 1979
  6. ^ "Francisco Brines, premio Cervantes". lavanguardia.com. 2020-11-16. Retrieved 2020-11-16.

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