Carlos Fuentes Prize

Carlos Fuentes International Prize for Literary Creation in the Spanish Language (Spanish: Premio Internacional Carlos Fuentes a la Creación Literaria en el Idioma Español) is a literary award established in 2012 by the Mexican government in honor of Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes.^[1] It is awarded every year on November 11, the birthday of Fuentes. The prize has a remuneration of US$250,000 making it one of the richest literary prizes in the world.^{[citation needed]}

The jury is composed of seven people including a member of Spain’s Royal Academy of the Spanish Language, another from the Mexican Spanish-language academy, one more from another academy in Latin America or the Philippines, and four additional academic or literary figures from Mexico.^[2]

Recipients

Year	Author	Nationality	Ref(s)
2012	Mario Vargas Llosa	Peru   Spain	^[3]
2014	Sergio Ramírez	Nicaragua	^[4]
2016	Eduardo Lizalde	Mexico	^[5]
2018	Luis Goytisolo	Spain	^[6]
2020	Diamela Eltit	Chile	^[7]

References

1. "Carlos Fuentes Literary Prize Created". Latin American Herald Tribune. July 4, 2012. Retrieved July 4, 2012.
2. "Conaculta anuncia el Premio Internacional Carlos Fuentes a la Creación Literaria en el Idioma Español" (in Spanish). July 3, 2012. Retrieved July 4, 2012.
3. . Latino Fox News. October 15, 2012. Archived from the original on October 18, 2012. Retrieved October 15, 2012.
4. . Latino Fox News. November 11, 2014. Archived from the original on 2014-11-13. Retrieved November 12, 2014.
5. "El poeta mexicano Eduardo Lizalde, ganador del Premio Carlos Fuentes". El País (in Spanish). 2016-11-08. ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 2018-03-23.
6. "Luis Goytisolo, Premio Carlos Fuentes 2018". El Cultural (in Spanish). 2018-06-25. Retrieved 2018-12-08.
7. "Diamela Eltit ganó el Premio Carlos Fuentes a la Creación Literaria 2020". Página12 (in Spanish). 2021-04-10. Retrieved 2021-05-31.

External links

• Carlos Fuentes Prize, official website