Premio Nadal is a Spanish
literary
Literature is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially novels, plays, and poems. It includes both print and digital writing. In recent centuries, ...
prize
A prize is an award to be given to a person or a group of people (such as sporting teams and organizations) to recognize and reward their actions and achievements. awarded annually by the publishing house
Ediciones Destino, part of
Planeta. It has been awarded every year on 6 January since 1944. The
Josep Pla Award for Catalan literature is given at the same ceremony.
The current monetary award stand at €18,000 for the winner; since 2010 the award does not choose or recognize a runner-up. It is one of the oldest and most prestigious Spanish literary awards.
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Winners
List of Premio Nadal winners since the award was established:
* 1944: Carmen Laforet for ''Nada''
* 1945: José Félix Tapia for ''La Luna ha entrado en casa''
* 1946: José María Gironella for ''Un hombre''
* 1947: Miguel Delibes for ''La sombra del ciprés es alargada''
* 1948: Sebastián Juan Arbó for ''Sobre las piedras grises''
* 1949: José Suárez Carreño for ''Las últimas horas''
* 1950: Elena Quiroga for ''Viento del Norte''
* 1951: Luis Romero for ''La noria''
* 1952: Dolores Medio
María Dolores Medio Estrada (16 December 1911 – 16 December 1996) was a Spanish writer, the winner of the Premio Nadal in 1952 for her work ''Nosotros, los Rivero''. She is often included in the literary Generation of '36.
Biography
Dolores ...
for ''Nosotros, los Rivero''
* 1953: Lluïsa Forrellad for ''Siempre en capilla''
* 1954: Francisco José Alcántara for ''La muerte le sienta bien a Villalobos''
* 1955: Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio for ''El Jarama''
* 1956: José Luis Martín Descalzo for '' La frontera de Dios''
* 1957: Carmen Martín Gaite for '' Entre visillos''
* 1958: José Vidal Cadellans for ''No era de los nuestros''
* 1959: Ana María Matute for ''Primera memoria''
* 1960: Ramiro Pinilla for ''Ciegas hormigas''
* 1961: for ''El curso''
* 1962: for ''Muerte por fusilamiento''
* 1963: Manuel Mejía Vallejo for ''El día señalado''
* 1964: for ''El miedo y la esperanza''
* 1965: Eduardo Caballero Calderón for ''El buen salvaje''
* 1966: for ''La zancada''
* 1967: José María Sanjuán for ''Réquiem por todos nosotros''
* 1968: Álvaro Cunqueiro for ''Un hombre que se parecía a Orestes''
* 1969: for ''Las hermanas coloradas''
* 1970: Jesús Fernández Santos for ''Libro de las memorias de las cosas''
* 1971: for ''El cuajarón''
* 1972: José María Carrascal for ''Groovy''
* 1973: for ''El rito''
* 1974: Luis Gasulla for ''Culminación de Montoya''
* 1975: Francisco Umbral for ''Las ninfas''
* 1976: Raúl Guerra Garrido for ''Lectura insólita de "El Capital"''
* 1977: for ''Conversación sobre la guerra''
* 1978: for ''Narciso''
* 1979: Carlos Rojas for ''El ingenioso hidalgo y poeta Federico García Lorca asciende a los infiernos''
* 1980: for ''Concerto grosso''
* 1981: for ''Cantiga de agüero''
* 1982: Fernando Arrabal for ''La torre herida por el rayo''
* 1983: for ''Regocijo en el hombre''
* 1984: José Luis de Tomás for ''La otra orilla de la droga''
* 1985: Pau Faner Coll for ''Flor de sal''
* 1986: Manuel Vicent for ''Balada de Caín''
* 1987: Juan José Saer for ''La ocasión''
* 1988: for ''Retratos de ambigú''
* 1989: Not awarded
* 1990: Juan José Millás
Juan José Millás (born 1946) is a Spanish writer and winner of the 1990 Premio Nadal. He was born in Valencia, Spain, Valencia and has spent most of his life in Madrid, Spain, Madrid, where he studied philosophy and literature at the Universida ...
for ''La soledad era esto''
* 1991: for ''Los otros días''
* 1992: Alejandro Gándara for ''Ciegas esperanzas''
* 1993: Rafael Argullol for ''La razón del mal''
* 1994: Rosa Regàs for ''Azul''
* 1995: for ''Cruzar el Danubio''
* 1996: for ''Matando dinosaurios con tirachinas''
* 1997: for ''Quién''
* 1998: Lucía Etxebarria for ''Beatriz y los cuerpos celestes''
* 1999: for ''Las historias de Marta y Fernando''
* 2000: Lorenzo Silva
Lorenzo Manuel Silva Amador (born 7 June 1966 in Carabanchel, Madrid) is a Spanish award-winning writer.
After earning a law degree at the Complutense University of Madrid, Universidad Complutense of Madrid, he worked as a lawyer from 1992 to 2002 ...
for ''El alquimista impaciente''
* 2001: Fernando Marías Amondo for ''El niño de los coroneles''
* 2002: Ángela Vallvey for ''Los estados carenciales''
* 2003: Andrés Trapiello for ''Los amigos del crimen perfecto''
* 2004: Antonio Soler for ''El camino de los ingleses''
* 2005: Pedro Zarraluki for ''Un encargo difícil''
* 2006: Eduardo Lago for ''Llámame Brooklyn''
* 2007: Felipe Benítez Reyes for ''Mercado de espejismos''
* 2008: Francisco Casavella for ''Lo que sé de los vampiros''
* 2009: Maruja Torres for ''Esperadme en el cielo''
* 2010: Clara Sanchez for ''Lo que esconde tu nombre''
* 2011: Alicia Giménez Bartlett for ''Donde nadie te encuentre''
* 2012: Álvaro Pombo
Álvaro Pombo García de los Ríos (born 23 June 1939) is a Spanish poet, novelist and activist.
Life and career
Born in Santander, Spain, Santander, Cantabria, he studied at the Complutense University of Madrid and received a Bachelor of Arts ...
for ''El temblor del héroe''
* 2013: Sergio Vila-Sanjuán for ''Estaba en el aire''
* 2014: Carmen Amoraga for ''La vida era eso''
* 2015: José C. Vales for ''Cabaret Biarritz''
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* 2017: Care Santos for ''Media vida''
* 2018: for ''Un amor''
* 2019: Guillermo Martínez for ''Los crímenes de Alicia''
* 2020: Ana Merino for ''El mapa de los afectos''
* 2021: Najat El Hachmi for ''El lunes nos querrán''
* 2022: Inés Martín Rodrigo for ''Las formas del querer''
* 2023: Manuel Vilas
Manuel Vilas (born 1962) is a Spanish writer. He has achieved distinction in several genres, including poetry, essays, short stories and novels. His novel ''Alegría'' was a finalist for the Premio Planeta while an earlier book ''Ordesa'' won th ...
for ''Nosotros''
* 2024: César Pérez Gellida for ''Bajo tierra seca''
Runners-up
List of runners-up ''(finalistas)'' of Premio Nadal since the award was instituted:
* 1944: José María Álvarez Blázquez for ''En el pueblo hay caras nuevas''
* 1945: Francisco García Pavón for ''Cerca de Oviedo''
* 1946: Eulalia Galvarriato for ''Cinco sombras'' and Luis Manteiga for ''Un hombre à la deriva''
* 1947: Ana María Matute for ''Los Abel'', Rosa María Cajal for ''Juan Risco'' and Juan Manuel Pombo Angulo for ''Hospital General''
* 1948: Manuel Mur Oti for ''Destino negro'' and Antonio Rodríguez Huescar for ''Vida con una diosa''
* 1949: Carlos de Santiago for ''El huerto de Pisadiel''
* 1950: Francisco Montero Galvache for ''El mar está solo''
* 1951: Tomás Salvador for ''Historias de Valcanillo'', José María Jové for ''Mientras llueve en la tierra'' and José Antonio Giménez Arnau for ''De pantalón largo''
* 1952: Severiano Fernández Nicolás for ''La ciudad sin horizonte'' and Vicente Risco for ''La puerta de paja''
* 1953: Alejandro Núñez Alonso for ''La gota de mercurio''
* 1954: Ángel Oliver for ''Días turbulentos''
* 1955: Héctor Vázquez Azpiri for ''Víbora''
* 1956: Jesús López Pacheco for ''Central eléctrica''
* 1957: Lauro Olmo for ''Ayer, 27 de octubre''
* 1958: Claudio Bassols for ''El carnaval de los gigantes''
* 1959: Armando López Salinas for ''La mina''
* 1960: Gonzalo Torrente Malvido for ''Hombres varados''
* 1961: Pedro Antoñana for ''La cuerda rota''
* 1962: Manuel Barrios for ''El crimen''
* 1963: Mariano Viguera for ''Coral''
* 1964: Manuel Barrios for ''La espuela''
* 1965: Juan Farias for ''Los buscadores de agua''
* 1966: Carmelo M. Lozano for ''Gambito de alfil de rey''
* 1967: Francisco García Pavón for ''El reinado de Witiza''
* 1968: Eduardo García for ''Sede vacante''
* 1969: Luis Ricardo Alonso for ''El candidato''
* 1970: Gabriel García-Badell for ''De las Armas de Montemolín''
* 1971: Gustavo Álvarez de Gardeazábal for ''Dabeiba''
* 1972: Gabriel García-Badell for ''Las cartas cayeron boca abajo'' and Bernardo Víctor Carande for ''Suroeste''
* 1973: Gabriel García-Badell for ''Funeral por Francia'' y Aquilino Duque for ''El mono azul''
* 1974: Guillermo Ariel Ramón Carrizo for ''Crónica sin héroes''
* 1975: Manuel Villar Raso for ''Mar ligeramente Sur''
* 1976: Emilio Mansera Conde for ''La crisopa''
* 1977: Gabriel García-Badell for ''La zarabanda''
* 1978: Manuel Vicent for ''El anarquista coronado con adelfas'' and Rocío Vélez de Piedrahita for ''Terrateniente''
* 1979: Manuel Vicent for ''Ángeles o neófitos'' and Gabriel García-Badell for ''Nuevo auto de fe''
* 1980: Ramón Eiroa for ''Notas para la aclaración de un suicidio'' and Jorge González Aranguren for ''En otros parques donde estar ardiendo''
* 1981: Alfonso Zapater for ''El accidente'' and Juan Luis González Ripoll for ''El dandy del lunar''
* 1982: José Luis Aguirre for ''La excursión''
* 1983: José Avello Flórez for ''La subversión de Beti García''
* 1984: Telmo Herrera for ''Papá murió hoy''
* 1985: Vicente Sánchez Pinto for ''Los desiertos del amor''
* 1986: Horacio Vázquez-Rial for ''Historia del Triste'' and Rafael Humberto Moreno-Durán for ''Los felinos del Canciller''
* 1987: José Ferrater Mora for ''El juego de la verdad''
* 1988: Jesús Carazo for ''Los límites del paraíso''
* 1989: Not awarded
* 1990: Pedro Crespo García for ''El cuaderno de Forster''
* 1991: Mariano Arias for ''El silencio de las palabras''
* 1992: Jesús Díaz for ''Las palabras perdidas''
* 1993: Jorge Ordaz for ''La perla del Oriente''
* 1994: José Ángel Mañas for '' Historias del Kronen''
* 1995: Félix Bayón for ''Adosados''
* 1996: Juana Salabert for ''Arde lo que será''
* 1997: Lorenzo Silva for ''La flaqueza del bolchevique''
* 1998: Ignacio García-Valiño for ''La caricia del escorpión''
* 1999: Lilian Neuman for ''Levantar ciudades''
* 2000: José Carlos Somoza for ''Dafne desvanecida''
* 2001: Lola Beccaria for ''La luna en Jorge''
* 2002: José Luis de Juan for ''Kaleidoscopio''
* 2003: David Torres for ''El gran silencio''
* 2004: Javier Puebla for ''Sonríe Delgado''
* 2005: Nicolás Casariego for ''Cazadores de luz''
* 2006: Marta Sanz for ''Susana y los viejos''
* 2007: Carmen Amoraga for ''Algo tan parecido al amor''
* 2008: Eva Díaz Pérez
Eva Díaz Pérez (born 1971) is a Spanish journalist and writer. She is also a teacher of at the EUSA University Center and a lecturer. She has received the Andalusian Journalism Award, and in July 2019 she was appointed director of the (CAL).
...
for ''El Club de la Memoria''
* 2009: Rubén Abella for ''El libro del amor esquivo''
References
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External links
Ediciones Destino
Spanish literary awards
Awards established in 1944
Planeta literary awards