FIL Award
The FIL Literary Award in Romance Languages (Premio FIL de Literatura en Lenguas Romances, previously the Juan Rulfo Prize for Latin American and Caribbean Literature) is awarded to writers of any genre of literature (poetry, novels, plays, short stories and literary essays) working in one of the Romance languages: Spanish, Catalan, Galician, French, Occitan, Italian, Romanian or Portuguese. Endowed with US$150,000, it is given to a writer in recognition to all their work, making it one of the richest literary prizes in the world.[1]
It was created in 1991 to acknowledge, in the beginning, writers of literature from Latin America or the Caribbean. It is organized by Mexico's National Council for Culture and Arts, the University of Guadalajara, the government of the state of Jalisco, and the Fondo de Cultura Económica and was originally named in honor of writer Juan Rulfo, a native of Sayula, Jalisco. It is awarded during the Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL).
In 2005, the Rulfo family requested that the name be removed from association with the prize, given that it had become "the spoils of small groups that sought only to benefit their own interests". As a result, beginning in 2006, the award was renamed the FIL Literary Award in Romance Languages.[2][3]
Prize winners
| Year | Author | Nationality |
|---|---|---|
| 1991 | Nicanor Parra | Chile |
| 1992 | Juan José Arreola | Mexico |
| 1993 | Eliseo Diego | Cuba |
| 1994 | Julio Ramón Ribeyro | Peru |
| 1995 | Nélida Piñon | Brazil |
| 1996 | Augusto Monterroso | Guatemala |
| 1997 | Juan Marsé | Spain |
| 1998 | Olga Orozco | Argentina |
| 1999 | Sergio Pitol | Mexico |
| 2000 | Juan Gelman | Argentina |
| 2001 | Juan García Ponce | Mexico |
| 2002 | Cintio Vitier | Cuba |
| 2003 | Rubem Fonseca | Brazil |
| 2004 | Juan Goytisolo | Spain |
| 2005 | Tomás Segovia | Spain-Mexico |
| 2006 | Carlos Monsiváis | Mexico |
| 2007 | Fernando del Paso | Mexico |
| 2008 | António Lobo Antunes | Portugal |
| 2009 | Rafael Cadenas | Venezuela |
| 2010 | Margo Glantz | Mexico |
| 2011 | Fernando Vallejo | Colombia |
| 2012 | Alfredo Bryce Echenique | Peru |
| 2013 | Yves Bonnefoy | France |
| 2014 | Claudio Magris | Italy |
| 2015 | Enrique Vila-Matas[4] | Spain |
| 2016 | Norman Manea | Romania |
| 2017 | Emmanuel Carrère | France |
| 2018 | Ida Vitale | Uruguay |
| 2019 | David Huerta[5] | Mexico |
| 2020 | Lídia Jorge | Portugal |
| 2021 | Diamela Eltit | Chile |
| 2022 | Mircea Cărtărescu | Romania |
| 2024 | Mia Couto | Mozambique |
References
- ^ Convocatoria 2012[permanent dead link]; acceso 18 April 2012
- ^ Avilés, Jaime (25 November 2005). "La familia de Rulfo retira el nombre del premio emblemático de la FIL". La Jornada. Retrieved 6 April 2023.
- ^ Gutiérrez, Vicente (14 April 2017). "Familia blinda a su Rulfo". El Economista. Retrieved 6 April 2023.
- ^ "Spain's Vila-Matas to receive Mexican literary prize". Fox News. September 8, 2015. Retrieved September 8, 2015.
- ^ "El poeta mexicano David Huerta gana el premio FIL de Literatura" [Mexican poet David Huerta wins the FIL Prize for Literature], El Pais (in Spanish), Sep 2, 2019, retrieved Sep 8, 2019
