Miguel de Cervantes Prize

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.

Laureates

The list of winners is available at the official Premio 'Miguel Cervantes' website.^[1]

Year	Winner	Country	Genre(s)
1976	Jorge Guillén	Spain	poetry
1977	Alejo Carpentier	Cuba	novel, essay
1978	Dámaso Alonso	Spain	poetry
1979^[2]	Jorge Luis Borges	Argentina	short story, poetry, essay, translation
1979^[2]	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	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	Spain	poetry
2020	Francisco Brines^[3]	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
2024	Álvaro Pombo^[4]	Spain	novel, short story, poetry, essay

References

↑ "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. Archived from the original on 2022-04-08. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
↑ Fanjul, Sergio C.; Amat, Jordi (Nov 12, 2024). "El escritor español Álvaro Pombo gana el Premio Cervantes 2024". El País.

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[1] "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.

[Exaequo-2] Two awarded in 1979

[3] "Francisco Brines, premio Cervantes". lavanguardia.com. 2020-11-16. Archived from the original on 2022-04-08. Retrieved 2020-11-16.

[4] Fanjul, Sergio C.; Amat, Jordi (Nov 12, 2024). "El escritor español Álvaro Pombo gana el Premio Cervantes 2024". El País.

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