Miguel de Cervantes Prize

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.

Reward(s)€125,000

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
  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
2019   Joan Margarit   Spain poetry
2020   Francisco Brines   Spain poetry
2021   Cristina Peri Rossi   Uruguay prose, poetry, short story, translation

References

  1. "Premio "Miguel de Cervantes"" (in español). Spain: Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte. Archived from the original on September 8, 2015. Retrieved November 30, 2012.
  2. Ex-aequo award.