José Fuentes Mares National Prize for Literature (Spanish: Premio Nacional de Literatura José Fuentes Mares or simply Premio José Fuentes Mares) is a Mexican literary award that has been presented annually since 1985 by the

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. It is given to a Mexican author who has published a book in the form of short stories, poems or a novel. The award is named in honor of José Fuentes Mares. The first recipient was the writer Jesús Gardea, who declined the prize. Some well-known authors who have won it include

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, Jaime Labastida, Alberto Ruy Sánchez,

Juan Villoro Juan Villoro (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 success among ...

, José Emilio Pacheco and Hernan Lara Zavala.

Winners

Sources for 1986–2011: *1986 Jesús Gardea (rejected by Gardes) *1987 Jaime Labastida and Sergio Galindo *1988 Eugenio Aguirre *1989 Alberto Blanco, ''Song to the Shadow of the Animals'' *1990

*1991 Alberto Ruy Sánchez, ''Una introducción a Octavio Paz'' *1992 Bruno Estañol *1993

Javier Sicilia Javier Sicilia (1956, Mexico City) is a Mexican poet, essayist, novelist, peace activist and journalist in Mexico. He contributes to various print media such as the Mexico City daily ''La Jornada'' and '' Proceso'' magazine. He was founder and dir ...

, ''El Bautista'' *1994 Julio Eutiquio Sarabia *1995 Hernán Lara Zavala *1996 Ignacio Solares *1997 Angelina Muñiz–Hubermann *1998 Héctor Manjarrez *1999

*2000 José Emilio Pacheco, ''La arena errante'' *2001 Mario González Suárez, ''El libro de las pasiones'' *2002 Élmer Mendoza, ''El amante de Janis Joplin'' *2003 Enrique Servín, ''El agua y la sombra'' *2004 Enrique Mijares, ''Espinazo del diablo'' *2005 David Toscana, ''El último lector'' *2006 Federico Patán, ''Encuentros'' *2007 Norma Lazo, ''El dolor es un triángulo equilátero'' *2008

Tedi López Mills Tedi López Mills is a Mexican poet born in 1959 in Mexico City. She studied philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico for the first three years of her Bachelor's and finished at Sorbonne University in Paris. She later comple ...

, ''Contracorriente'' *2009 Edgar Chías Orozco, ''De insomnio y medianoche'' *2009 Edeberto Galindo Noriega, ''Río ánimas'' *2010 Ricardo García Mainou, ''Cuando te toca'' *2011 Mauricio Carrera, ''La derrota de los días'' *2012 *2013 *2014 Eduardo Antonio Parra, ''Desterrados'' *2015 Imanol Caneyada, ''Hotel de Arraigo'' *2016 Antonio Zúñiga. ''Juárez Jerusalem'' and ''Mi papá no es santo ni enmascarado de teatro'' and ''Matatena''

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jose Fuentes Mares National Prize for Literature Mexican literary awards Awards established in 1985 Fiction awards Poetry awards Short story awards 1985 establishments in Mexico