The Xavier Villaurrutia Award (Premio Xavier Villaurrutia) is a prestigious literary prize given in

Mexico Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in North America. It is the northernmost country in Latin America, and borders the United States to the north, and Guatemala and Belize to the southeast; while having maritime boundar ...

, to a Latin American writer published in Mexico. Founded in 1955, it was named in memory of

Xavier Villaurrutia Xavier Villaurrutia y González (27 March 1903 – 25 December 1950) was a Mexican poet, playwright, translator, and literary critic whose most famous works are the short theatrical dramas called ''Autos profanos'', compiled in the work ''Poesía ...

. Its jury is composed of previously awarded writers. Sometimes, it is not awarded for a specific work, but for an individual's body of work. Multiple awards have been given in some years, specially between 1972 and 1992. No award was made in 1968, when it was suspended in protest for the imprisonment of

José Revueltas José Revueltas Sánchez (November 20, 1914 in Santiago Papasquiaro, Durango – April 14, 1976 in Mexico City) was a Mexican writer, essayist, and political activist. He was part of an important artistic family that included his siblings Silves ...

, who had won the award in 1967. It wasn't given in 1969 since

Elena Poniatowska Hélène Elizabeth Louise Amélie Paula Dolores Poniatowska Amor (born May 19, 1932), known professionally as Elena Poniatowska (), is a French-born Mexican journalist and author, specializing in works on social and political issues focused on ...

rejected the award in protest for the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre.

Recipients of the award

* 1955:

Juan Rulfo Juan Nepomuceno Carlos Pérez Rulfo Vizcaíno, best known as Juan Rulfo (; 16 May 1917 – 7 January 1986), was a Mexican writer, screenwriter, and photographer. He is best known for two literary works, the 1955 novel ''Pedro Páramo'', and the ...

, for ''

Pedro Páramo ''Pedro Páramo'' is a novel by Mexican writer Juan Rulfo, first published in 1955. This novel showcases the roots of Mexican culture and its beliefs on afterlife through deeply complex characters, spirituality, and a constant transition betwee ...

'' (novel) * 1956:

Octavio Paz Octavio Paz Lozano (March 31, 1914 – April 19, 1998) was a Mexican poet and diplomat. For his body of work, he was awarded the 1977 Jerusalem Prize, the 1981 Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the 1982 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, a ...

, for '' El arco y la lira'' (essay) * 1957: Josefina Vicens, ''

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'' (novel) * 1958: no award * 1959: Marco Antonio Montes de Oca, for ''Delante de la luz cantan los pájaros'' (poetry) * 1960:

Rosario Castellanos Rosario Castellanos Figueroa (; 25 May 1925 – 7 August 1974) was a Mexican poet and author. She was one of Mexico's most important literary voices in the last century. Throughout her life, she wrote eloquently about issues of cultural and gend ...

, for ''

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'' (novel) * 1961: no award * 1962: no award * 1963 **

Elena Garro Elena Garro (December 11, 1916 – August 22, 1998) was a Mexican author, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, short story writer, and novelist. She has been described as one of the pioneers and an early leading figure of the Magical Realism move ...

, for ''

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'' (novel) **

Juan José Arreola Juan José Arreola Zúñiga (September 21, 1918 – December 3, 2001) was a Mexican writer, academic, and actor. He is considered Mexico's premier experimental short story writer of the 20th century. Arreola is recognized as one of the first Lat ...

, for ''

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'' (novel) * 1964:

Homero Aridjis Homero Aridjis (born April 6, 1940) is a Mexican poetry, poet, novelist, environmental activist, journalism, journalist, and former ambassador and ex-president of PEN International. Family and early life Aridjis was born in Contepec, Michoacán, ...

, for '' Mirándola dormir'' (poetry) * 1965:

Salvador Elizondo Salvador Elizondo Alcalde (December 19, 1932, in Mexico City – March 29, 2006) was a Mexican writer of the 60s Generation of Mexican literature. Regarded as one of the creators of the most influential cult noirè, experimental, intelligent ...

, for '' Farabeuf'' (novel) * 1966:

Fernando del Paso Fernando del Paso Morante (April 1, 1935 – November 14, 2018) was a Mexican novelist, essayist and poet. Biography Del Paso was born in Mexico City and took two years in economics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He ...

, for '' José Trigo'' (novel) * 1967:

, for life’s work * 1968: suspended * 1969: Suspended * 1970: Eduardo Lizalde, for '' El tigre en la casa'' (poetry) * 1971:

Carlos Montemayor Carlos Montemayor (June 13, 1947 – February 28, 2010) was a Mexican novelist, poet, essayist, literary critic, tenor, political analyst, and promoter of contemporary literature written in indigenous languages. He was a Member of the Mexican Aca ...

, for '' Las llaves de Urgell'' (short story) *1972 ** Juan García Ponce, for '' Encuentros'' (short story) **

Gabriel Zaid Gabriel Zaid is a Mexican writer, poet and intellectual. Early life He was born in the city of Monterrey, Nuevo León, on January 24, 1934, son of Palestinian immigrants, is a Mexican thinker (poet, essayist, economist, businessman, engineer, ana ...

, for '' Leer poetry'' (essay) **

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, for '' Galaor'' (novel) **

Jaime Sabines Jaime Sabines Gutiérrez (March 25, 1926 – March 19, 1999) was a Mexican contemporary poet. Known as “the sniper of Literature” as he formed part of a group that transformed literature into reality, he wrote ten volumes of poetry, and his w ...

and

Ernesto Mejía Sánchez Ernesto Mejía Sánchez (Masaya, Nicaragua, 1923 – Mérida, Mexico, 1985) was a Nicaraguan author and poet. He took his doctoral degree in Madrid and, for several years was a professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. His first ...

, for life’s work *1973 **

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, for '' Las jiras'' (novel) ** Esther Seligson, for '' Otros son los sueños'' (novel) **

José Emilio Pacheco José Emilio Pacheco Berny (30 June 1939 – 26 January 2014) was a Mexican poet, essayist, novelist and short story writer. He is regarded as one of the major Mexican poets of the second half of the 20th century. The Berlin International Lit ...

, for ''

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'' (novel) ** Tomás Segovia, for '' Terceto'' (poetry) ** Héctor Azar, for '' Los juegos de azar: seis obras en un acto'' (theatre) *1974 **

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, for ''

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'' (novel) ** Julieta Campos, for '' Tiene los cabellos rojizos y se llama Sabina'' (novel) **

Gustavo Sainz Gustavo Sainz (13 July 1940 – 26 June 2015) was a Spanish language author from Mexico. Biography Sainz was born in Mexico City. As the son of journalist José Luis Sainz, Gustavo Sainz learned how to read at the age of three from his paternal gra ...

, for '' La princesa del Palacio de Hierro'' (novel) **

Manuel Echeverría Manuel "Ciclón" Echeverría, (14 August 1913 – 14 October 1981) was a Mexican baseball player who pitched primarily in the Mexican League. Career As a child, Echeverría played for the team of the Talamante School in his hometown of Navojoa, S ...

, for '' Un redoble muy largo'' (novel) *1975 **

Carlos Fuentes Carlos Fuentes Macías (; ; November 11, 1928 – May 15, 2012) was a Mexican novelist and essayist. Among his works are ''The Death of Artemio Cruz'' (1962), '' Aura'' (1962), '' Terra Nostra'' (1975), '' The Old Gringo'' (1985) and '' Christop ...

, for '' Terra Nostra'' (novel) **

Augusto Monterroso Augusto Monterroso Bonilla (December 21, 1921 – February 8, 2003) was a Honduran writer who adopted Guatemalan nationality, known for the ironical and humorous style of his short stories. He is considered an important figure in the Latin Amer ...

, for '' Antología personal'' (short story) ** José Vázquez Amaral, for ''

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'' (essay) **

Efraín Huerta Efraín Huerta Roma (June 18, 1914 – February 3, 1982) was a Mexican poet and journalist. Born and raised in the state of Guanajuato, he moved to Mexico City initially to start a career in art. Unable to enter the Academy of San Carlos, he ...

, for life’s work *1976 ** Tita Valencia, for '' Minotauromaquia'' (poetry) **

Jorge Enrique Adoum Jorge Enrique Adoum (June 29, 1926 in Ambato – July 3, 2009 in Quito) was an Ecuadorian writer, poet, politician, and diplomat. He was one of the major exponents of Latin American poetry. His work received such prestigious awards as the first ...

, for ''

Entre Marx y una mujer desnuda ''Entre Marx y una Mujer Desnuda'' (''Between Marx and a Naked Woman'') is a 1976 novel written by the Ecuadorian poet Jorge Enrique Adoum. The novel is described as Adoum's most famous work, and covers his usual themes. According to his entry in ...

'' (theatre) **Daniel Leyva, for '' Crispal'' (novel) ** Enrique González Rojo, for '' El quíntuple balar de mis sentidos'' (poetry) *1977 ** Silvia Molina, for ''

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'' (novel) **, for ''

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'' (poetry) **

Amparo Dávila Amparo Dávila (21 February 1928 – 18 April 2020) was a Mexican writer best known for her short stories touching on the fantastic and the uncanny. She won the Xavier Villarrutia Award in 1977 for her short story collection, ''Árboles petr ...

, for '' Árboles petrificados'' (short story) ** Luis Mario Schneider, for '' La resurrección de Clotilde Goñi'' (novel) *1978 ** José Luis González, for ''

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'' (novel) ** Isabel Fraire, for '' Poemas en el regazo de la muerte'' (poetry) **, for '' Los sueños de la Bella Durmiente'' (short story) **

Ulalume González de León "Ulalume" () is a poem written by Edgar Allan Poe in 1847. Much like a few of Poe's other poems (such as "The Raven", "Annabel Lee", and " Lenore"), "Ulalume" focuses on the narrator's loss of his beloved due to her death. Poe originally wrote the ...

, for '' El riesgo del placer'' (essay) *1979 ** Carlos Eduardo Turón, for '' La libertad tiene otro nombre'' (poetry) **

Inés Arredondo Inés Camelo Arredondo (March 20, 1928 – November 2, 1989) was a Mexican writer. In 1947 she enrolled in the department of Philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. In 1958 she married the writer Tomás Segovia. She won t ...

, for ''

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'' (novel) *1980 ** Sergio Fernández, for '' Segundo sueño'' (novel) ** Fernando Curiel, for '' Onetti: obra y calculado infortunio'' (essay) **

Jesús Gardea Jesús Gardea Rocha (July 2, 1939 – March 12, 2000) was a Mexican writer of fiction and short fiction. Biography Jesús Gardea Rocha was born on July 2, 1939, in Delicias, Chihuahua, Mexico, to Vicente Gardea V. and Francisca Rocha. He stud ...

, for '' Septiembre y los otros días'' (short story) **

Alí Chumacero Alí Chumacero Lora (9 July 1918 – 22 October 2010) was a Mexican poet, translator, literary critic and editor. He was a member of the Mexican Academy of Language. Biography Alí Chumacero Lora was born on July 9, 1918, in Acaponeta, Nayari ...

, for life’s work *1981 **

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, for '' El rito cotidiano'' (poetry) ** Jaime del Palacio, for '' Parejas'' (novel) **

Noé Jitrik Noé Jitrik (23 January 1928 – 6 October 2022) was an Argentine literary critic. Jitrik was born in Argentina on 23 January 1928. He was director of the ''Instituto de literatura hispanoamericana'' at the University of Buenos Aires, and was ...

, for '' Fin del ritual'' (novel) **

Sergio Pitol Sergio Pitol Deméneghi (18 March 1933 – 12 April 2018) was a Mexican writer, translator and diplomat. In 2005, he received the Cervantes Prize, the most prestigious literary award in the Spanish-speaking world. Early life Born in Puebla, Me ...

, for '' Nocturno de Bujara'' (short story) *1982 ** Alberto Dallal, for ''

El “dancing” mexicano EL, El or el may refer to: Arts and entertainment Fictional entities * El, a character from the manga series ''Shugo Chara!'' by Peach-Pit * Eleven (''Stranger Things'') (El), a fictional character in the TV series ''Stranger Things'' * El, fami ...

'' (essay) **

Eraclio Zepeda Eraclio Zepeda (March 24, 1937 – September 17, 2015) was a Mexican writer, poet and politician. Education He attended college at the Universidad Militarizada Latinoamericana, where he started a Marxism study group with Jaime Labastida, Jaime ...

, for '' Andando el tiempo'' (short story) ** Luisa Josefina Hernández, for ''

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'' (theatre) ** Francisco Cervantes, for '' Cantado para nadie'' (poetry) *1983 ** Sergie I. Zaitzeff, for '' El arte de Julio Torri'' (essay) **

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, for '' Usted es la culpable'' (poetry) **

María Luisa Puga Maria Luisa Puga (February 3, 1944 – December 25, 2004) was a Mexican writer. Her 1983 novel ''Pánico o peligro'' won the Xavier Villaurrutia Award. Biography Puga was born in Mexico City. She and her siblings went to live with her grandmot ...

, for '' Pánico o peligro'' (novel) **

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, for '' No todos los hombres son románticos'' (novel) *1984 ** Jomi García Ascot, for '' Antología personal: poetry'' (poetry) **

Carmen Alardín Carmen Alardín (5 July 1933 – 10 May 2014) was a Mexican poet. She was known for her poems such as ''La violencia del otoño'' (The Violence of Fall) and ''No pude detener los elefantes'' (You Can't Detain Elephants). Alardín specialized i ...

, for ''

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'' (poetry) **

Arturo González Cosío Arturo is a Spanish and Italian variant of the name Arthur. People *Arturo Alessandri (1868–1950), Chilean politician and president *Arturo Álvarez (footballer, born 1985), American-born Salvadoran footballer *Arturo Álvarez (footballer, born ...

, for ''

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'' (poetry) **

Margo Glantz Margo Glantz Shapiro (; born January 28, 1930) is a Mexican writer, essayist, critic and academic. She has been a member of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua since 1995. She is a recipient of the FIL Award. Biography Margo Glantz's family i ...

, for '' Síndrome de naufragios'' (short story) ** Lisa Block de Behar, for ''

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'' (essay) *1985: Angelina Muñiz-Huberman, for '' Huerto cerrado, huerto sellado'' (short story) * 1986 **

Sergio Galindo Sergio Galindo (September 2, 1926 – January 3, 1993) was a Mexican novelist and short story writer. He was born in Xalapa in the state of Veracruz, a region of Mexico that figures prominently in much of his writing. His most popular and widely a ...

, for '' Otilia Rauda'' (novel) **

Federico Patán Federico (; ) is a given name and surname. It is a form of Frederick, most commonly found in Spanish, Portuguese and Italian. People with the given name Federico Arts and language * Federico Ágreda, Venezuelan composer and DJ * Federico Aguila ...

, for '' Último exilio'' (novel) *1987 **

Alberto Ruy Sánchez Alberto Ruy-Sánchez Lacy is a Mexicans, Mexican writer and editor born in Mexico City on 7 December 1951. He is an author of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Since 1988 he has been the chief editor and founding publisher of Latin America's lea ...

, for ''

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'' (novel) ** Bárbara Jacobs, for '' Las hojas muertas'' (novel) *1988 **

Álvaro Mutis Álvaro Mutis Jaramillo (August 25, 1923 – September 22, 2013) was a Colombian poet, novelist, and essayist. His best-known work is the novel sequence '' The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll'', which revolves around the character o ...

, for '' Ilona llega con la lluvia'' (novel) **

Ernesto de la Peña Ernesto, form of the name Ernest in several Romance languages, may refer to: * ''Ernesto'' (novel) (1953), an unfinished autobiographical novel by Umberto Saba, published posthumously in 1975 ** ''Ernesto'' (film), a 1979 Italian drama loosely ba ...

, for '' Las estratagemas de Dios'' (short story) *1989 **

Carmen Boullosa Carmen Boullosa (; born September 4, 1954, in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican poet, novelist and playwright. Her work focuses on the issues of feminism and gender roles within a Latin American context. It has been praised by a number of writers ...

, for '' Antes, La salvaja y Papeles irresponsables'' (novel) **

Guillermo Sheridan Guillermo Humberto Sheridan Prieto (born 27 August 1950) is a Mexican literary critic, scholar and public commentator. Life and work Sheridan was born in Mexico City. He was a Chevening Scholar at the University of East Anglia in 1986. He was ...

, for '' Un corazón adicto: la vida de Ramón López Velarde'' (essay) *1990 ** José Luis Rivas, for '' Brazos de mar'' (poetry) **

Emilio García Riera Emilio García Riera (born 17 November 1931 in Ibiza, Spain – died on 11 October 2002 in Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico) was a Spanish-born Mexican actor, writer and cinema critic. He has written exhaustively on Mexican cinema of 1929 and 1976, leav ...

, for ''

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'' (memoirs) *1991 **

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, for ''

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'' (poetry) ** Gerardo Deniz, for ''

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'' *1992 **

Daniel Sada Daniel Sada Villarreal (February 25, 1953, in Mexicali, Baja California – November 18, 2011, in Mexico City) was a Mexican poet, journalist, and writer, whose work has been hailed as one of the most important contributions to the Spanish la ...

, for '' Registro de causantes'' (short story) **, for '' Antología personal'' (poetry) *1993: Jorge López Páez, for '' Los cerros azules'' (novel) * 1994: Francisco Hernández, for ''

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'' (poetry) * 1995:

Carlos Monsiváis Carlos Monsiváis Aceves (May 4, 1938 – June 19, 2010) was a Mexican philosopher, writer, critic, political activist, and journalist. He also wrote political opinion columns in leading newspapers within the country's progressive sectors. ...

, for ''

Los rituales del caos LOS, or Los, or LoS may refer to: Science and technology * Length of stay, the duration of a single episode of hospitalisation * Level of service, a measure used by traffic engineers * Level of significance, a measure of statistical significance ...

'' (chronicle) * 1996: Jaime Labastida, for ''

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'' (poetry) * 1997:

Jorge Ruiz Dueñas Jorge is the Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name George. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced very differently in each of the two languages: Spanish ; Portuguese . It is derived from the Greek name Γεώργιος (''Georgios'' ...

, for '' Habitaré su nombre y Saravá'' (poetry) * 1998:

Ignacio Solares Ignacio Solares Bernal (15 January 1945 – 24 August 2023) was a Mexican novelist, editor and playwright, whose novel ''La invasión'' (''The Invasion'', 2004) was a bestseller in Mexico and Spain. Until 2005 he served as the Coordinator of Cu ...

, for ''El sitio'' (novel) *1999:

Juan Villoro Juan Antonio Villoro Ruiz (born 24 September 1956, in Mexico City) is a Mexican writer and journalist and the son of philosopher Luis Villoro. He has been well known among intellectual circles in Mexico, Latin America and Spain for years, but his ...

, for '' La casa pierde'' (short story) * 2000:

Vicente Leñero Vicente Leñero Otero (June 9, 1933 – December 3, 2014) was a Mexican novelist, journalist, and playwright. He wrote numerous books, stories, and plays, including a theatrical adaptation of Oscar Lewis's ''The Children of Sanchez (film), The Chi ...

, for ''

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'' (anthology) * 2001: Mario Bellatin, for ''

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'' (novel) * 2002 ** Juan Bañuelos, for ''

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'' (poetry) **

Hugo Gutiérrez Vega Hugo Gutiérrez Vega (February 20, 1934 – September 25, 2015) was a Mexican poet, lawyer, writer, academic, actor and translator. In addition to his writings, Gutiérrez Vega, a career diplomat, served as Mexico's Ambassador to Greece from 1987 ...

, for '' Peregrinaciones: Poesía 1965-2001 Bazar de asombros II'' (poetry) *2003 **

Coral Bracho Coral Bracho (born 1951 in Mexico City) is a Mexican poet, translator, and doctor of Literature. Bracho is winner of the Aguascalientes National Poetry Prize in 1981 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2000. She received the 2004 Xavier Villaurruti ...

, for '' Ese espacio, ese jardín'' (poetry) **

Pedro Ángel Palou García Pedro is a masculine given name. Pedro is the Spanish, Portuguese, and Galician name for ''Peter''. Its French equivalent is Pierre while its English and Germanic form is Peter. The counterpart patronymic surname of the name Pedro, meaning ...

, for '' Con la muerte en los puños'' (novel) * 2004:

Christopher Domínguez Michael Christopher is the English version of a Europe-wide name derived from the Greek name Χριστόφορος (''Christophoros'' or '' Christoforos''). The constituent parts are Χριστός (''Christós''), "Christ" or "Anointed", and φέρει ...

, for ''

Vida de Fray Servando Vida means “life” in Spanish and Portuguese. It may refer to: Geography * Vida (Gradačac), village in Bosnia and Herzegovina * Lake Vida, Victoria Valley, Antarctica * U.S. settled places: ** Vida, Montana ** Vida, Oregon ** Vida, Missou ...

'' (essay) * 2005:

David Huerta David Huerta (8 October 1949 – 3 October 2022) was a Mexican poet and the son of well-known poet Efraín Huerta. His wife was the writer Verónica Murguía. Biography He was born in Mexico City, the son of the poets Efraín Huerta and Mire ...

, for '' Versión'' (poetry) * 2006:

Alejandro Rossi Alejandro Rossi (''Alessandro Rossi''; 22 September 1932 – 5 June 2009) was a renowned Mexican philosopher, essayist, and literary critic. Acclaimed as an essayist and writer of short stories and literary texts, he was praised by Spanish and La ...

, por '' Edén. Vida imaginada'' (novel) *2007 **

Elsa Cross Elsa Cross (born March 6, 1946, in Mexico City), is a contemporary Spanish-language Mexican writer perhaps best known for her poetry. She has also published translations, philosophical essays and is known as an authority on Indian philosophy. ...

, for ''

Cuaderno de Amorgós "Cuaderno" is a song by American singers Dalex, Nicky Jam and Justin Quiles featuring Panamian singer Sech (singer), Sech, Puerto Rican singer Lenny Tavárez, Colombian singer Feid and fellow Puerto Rican singer Rafa Pabön. It was released on Ma ...

'' (poetry) ** Pura López Colomé, for ''

y Santo y Seña Y, or y, is the twenty-fifth and penultimate letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. According to some authorities, it is the sixth (or sevent ...

'' (poetry) *2008:

Adolfo Castañón Adolfo may refer to: * Adolfo, São Paulo, a Brazilian municipality * Adolfo (designer) Adolfo Faustino Sardiña (February 15, 1923 – November 27, 2021), professionally known as Adolfo, was a Cuban-born American fashion designer who started out a ...

, ''Viaje a México. Ensayos, crónicas y retratos'' (essay) *2009:

Tedi López Mills Tedi López Mills is a Mexican poet born in 1959 in Mexico City. She began her undergraduate studies in philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico for three years before completing her degree at the Sorbonne University in Paris. ...

, ''Muerte en la rúa Augusta'' (poetry) *2010:

Sergio Mondragón Sergio may refer to: * Sergio (name), for people with the given name Sergio * Sergio (carbonado), the largest rough diamond ever found * Sergio, the mascot for the Old Orchard Beach Surge baseball team * ''Sergio'', a 2009 documentary film about ...

, ''Hojarasca'' (poetry) *2011:

Felipe Garrido Felipe is the Spanish variant of the name Philip, which derives from the Greek adjective ''Philippos'' "friend of horses". Felipe is also widely used in Portuguese-speaking Brazil alongside Filipe, the form commonly used in Portugal. Noteworthy ...

, ''Conjuros'' (short story) *2012: Myriam Moscona, ''Tela de Sevoya'' (novel) *2013:

José de la Colina José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced very differently in each of the two languages: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , ...

, ''Libertades imaginadas'' (essay) *2014: , ''Autorretrato de familia con perro'' (novel) *2015:

Jorge Aguilar Mora Jorge Aguilar Mora (9 January 1946 – 5 January 2024) was a Mexican essayist, novelist, poet, professor and literary critic. Biography Aguilar Mora studied Hispanic language and literature at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) ...

, ''Sueños de la razón, 1799 y 1800. Umbrales del siglo XIX'' (essay) *2016:

Alberto Blanco (poet) Alberto Blanco (born February 18, 1951) is a Mexican poet. He has published twenty-six books of poetry and has also translated the work of other poets. Early life and education Born in Mexico City, he spent his childhood and adolescence in tha ...

, ''El canto y el vuelo'' (essay) *2017:

David Toscana David (; , "beloved one") was a king of ancient Israel and Judah and the third king of the United Monarchy, according to the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament. The Tel Dan stele, an Aramaic-inscribed stone erected by a king of Aram-Damas ...

, ''Olegaroy'' (novel) *2018:

Fabio Morábito Fabio Morábito (born February 21, 1955, in Alexandria, Egypt) is a Mexican writer and poet. Born in Egypt to Italian parents, he spent his childhood in Milan. Since the age of 14 he has lived in Mexico City where he has written four books of ...

, ''El lector a domicilio'' (novel) *2019:

Enrique Serna Enrique Serna (born 11 January 1959) is a Mexican writer. Serna was born in Mexico City. Before devoting himself entirely to literature, he was a scriptwriter for various Mexican soap operas and wrote biographies of popular Mexican figures as wel ...

, ''El vendedor de silencio'' (novel) *2020: Malva Flores, ''Estrella de dos puntas'' (essay) *2021:

Cristina Rivera Garza Cristina Rivera Garza (born October 1, 1964) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning Mexican author and professor known for her fiction and memoir. Multiple novels, including ''Nadie me verá llorar'' (''No One Will See Me Cry''), received Mexico’s highest ...

, ''El invencible verano de Liliana'' (novel) *2022: Gonzalo Celorio, ''Mentideros de la memoria'' (memoirs) *2023: , ''Quirón'' (poetry)

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