Premio Nadal is a Spanish

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awarded annually by the publishing house

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, part of

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. It has been awarded every year on 6 January since 1944. The

Josep Pla Award The Josep Pla Award ( es, Premio Josep Pla, links=no; ca, Premi Josep Pla, links=no) is a Spanish literary prize, awarded by the Ediciones Destino, Destino publishing house since 1968, to a prose text written in Catalan language, Catalan. It is o ...

for Catalan literature is given at the same ceremony. The current monetary award stand at €18,000 for the winner and since 2010 there has been no runner-up. It is one of the oldest and most prestigious Spanish literary awards.

Winners

List of Premio Nadal winners since the award was established: * 1944:

Carmen Laforet Carmen Laforet (Barcelona 6 September 1921 – Madrid, 28 February 2004) was a Spanish author who wrote in the period after the Spanish Civil War. An important European writer, her works contributed to the school of Existentialist Literature ...

for ''Nada'' * 1945:

José Félix Tapia José Félix Tapia Ruiz (1910 in Madrid – 1969 in Madrid) was a Spanish writer and journalist. He was of Basque origin and grew up in Bilbao. He studied journalism at the University of Deusto, and went to work at the newspaper ''La Nacion''. Afte ...

for ''La Luna ha entrado en casa'' * 1946: José María Gironella for ''Un hombre'' * 1947:

Miguel Delibes Miguel Delibes Setién Medal of Merit in Labour, MML (; 17 October 1920 – 12 March 2010) was a Spanish novelist, journalist and newspaper editor associated with the Generation of '36 movement. From 1975 until his death, he was a member of the ...

for ''La sombra del ciprés es alargada'' * 1948: Sebastián Juan Arbó for ''Sobre las piedras grises'' * 1949:

José Suárez Carreño José Suárez Carreño (1915–2002) was a Spanish writer associated with the Generation of '36 movement. He was born in Guadalupe, Mexico, but lived in Madrid from an early age. Awards He was awarded the Adonais Prize in 1945 for his book ''E ...

for ''Las últimas horas'' * 1950:

Elena Quiroga Elena Quiroga de Abarca (Santander, October 26, 1921 – Corunna, October 3, 1995) was a Spanish writer. Elena Quiroga was renowned for her narrative prose work. She was considered one of the most prominent women of her time, mostly because she ...

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 Lluïsa Forrellad i Miquel (27 May 1927 – 4 August 2018) was a Spanish writer who wrote in Catalan and Spanish. She received the Premio Nadal in 1953 for ''Siempre en capilla''. She was the twin sister of Francesca Forrellad. Bibliography The ...

for ''Siempre en capilla'' * 1954:

Francisco José Alcántara Francisco José Alcántara (1922–1999) was a Spanish writer and journalist. He was born in Haro and grew up in Bilbao and La Coruna. He worked as a Jesuit missionary in Bogotá and Caracas, and afterwards returning to civilian life, studied in ...

for ''La muerte le sienta bien a Villalobos'' * 1955:

Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio (4 December 1927 – 1 April 2019) was a Spanish writer. In 2004 he was awarded the Premio Cervantes for his literary oeuvre. He was married to fellow writer Carmen Martín Gaite. Writing Sánchez Ferlosio was born in R ...

for ''El Jarama'' * 1956: José Luis Martín Descalzo for ''

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'' * 1957:

Carmen Martín Gaite Carmen Martín Gaite (8 December 1925 – 23 July 2000) was a Spanish author. She wrote many novels, short stories, screenplays, and essays, across many genres. Gaite was awarded the Premio Nadal in 1957 for '' Entre visillos'', the Prince ...

for '' Entre visillos'' * 1958: José Vidal Cadellans for ''No era de los nuestros'' * 1959:

Ana María Matute Ana María Matute Ausejo (26 July 1925 – 25 June 2014) was an internationally acclaimed Spanish writer and member of the Real Academia Española. In 1959, she received the Premio Nadal for ''Primera memoria''. The third woman to receive the Ce ...

for ''Primera memoria'' * 1960: Ramiro Pinilla for ''Ciegas hormigas'' * 1961: for ''El curso'' * 1962: for ''Muerte por fusilamiento'' * 1963:

Manuel Mejía Vallejo Manuel Mejía Vallejo (23 April 1923 – 23 July 1998) was a Colombian writer and journalist. The specialist Luís Carlos Molina says that Mejía represents the Andean aspect of the contemporary Colombian narrative, characterized by a world ...

for ''El día señalado'' * 1964: for ''El miedo y la esperanza'' * 1965:

Eduardo Caballero Calderón Eduardo Caballero Calderón (6 March 1910 – 3 April 1993) was a Colombian journalist and writer. As a journalist, he worked for the main Colombian newspapers, including El Tiempo and El Espectador. Also he was a diplomat from Colombia in Peru ...

for ''El buen salvaje'' * 1966: for ''La zancada'' * 1967:

José María Sanjuán José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced differently in each language: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , is an old vernacul ...

for ''Réquiem por todos nosotros'' * 1968:

Álvaro Cunqueiro Álvaro Cunqueiro Mora (Mondoñedo, December 22, 1911 – Vigo, February 28, 1981) was a Galician novelist, poet, playwright, and journalist. He is the author of many works in both Galician and Spanish, including ''Merlín e familia'' ("Mer ...

for ''Un hombre que se parecía a Orestes'' * 1969: for ''Las hermanas coloradas'' * 1970: for ''Libro de las memorias de las cosas'' * 1971: for ''El cuajarón'' * 1972: for ''Groovy'' * 1973: for ''El rito'' * 1974:

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for ''Culminación de Montoya'' * 1975:

Francisco Umbral Francisco Alejandro Pérez Martínez (11 May 1932 – 28 August 2007), better known as Francisco Umbral, was a Spanish journalist, novelist, biographer and essayist. Style Although he was born in Madrid, a city that has inspired most of his wor ...

for ''Las ninfas'' * 1976:

Raúl Guerra Garrido Raúl Guerra Garrido (4 April 1935 – 2 December 2022) was a Spanish writer. He was the recipient of the 1975 Premio Nadal for ''Lectura insólita de El Capital'' and the 1984 Premio Planeta de Novela for ''La guerra del Wolfram''. Guerra Garr ...

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 Fernando Arrabal Terán (born August 11, 1932) is a Spanish playwright, screenwriter, film director, novelist, and poet. He was born in Melilla and settled in France in 1955. Regarding his nationality, Arrabal describes himself as "desterrado", ...

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 Pau Faner Coll, (Menorca, 1949) is a Spanish novelist and painter. He won numerous prizes, such as the 1988 Ramon Llull Novel Award, for his literary works which are usually centered on mythical Myth is a folklore genre consisting of narrat ...

for ''Flor de sal'' * 1986:

Manuel Vicent Manuel Vicent (born 1936) is a Spanish writer. He was born in La Vilavella, Castellón and studied philosophy and law at the University of Valencia. A prolific author, he has written more than 40 books. He has won several literary prizes, inc ...

for ''Balada de Caín'' * 1987:

Juan José Saer Juan José Saer ( Serodino, Santa Fe, Argentina, June 28, 1937Paris, France, June 11, 2005) was an Argentine writer, considered one of the most important in Latin American literature and in Spanish-language literature of the 20th century. He is ...

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 Alejandro Gándara (born 1957) is a Spanish writer. Born in Santander, Cantabria, Gandara studied political science and sociology at Complutense University in Madrid, where he also now teaches. He won the Premio Ignacio Aldecoa for short stories in ...

for ''Ciegas esperanzas'' * 1993: Rafael Argullol for ''La razón del mal'' * 1994:

Rosa Regàs Rosa Regàs (born 1933, in Barcelona) is a Spanish writer and novelist. She is a recipient of the Premio Planeta de Novela and the Premio Nadal. Biography Rosa Regàs was born in Barcelona in 1933. During the Spanish Civil War she was exiled to ...

for ''Azul'' * 1995: for ''Cruzar el Danubio'' * 1996: for ''Matando dinosaurios con tirachinas'' * 1997: for ''Quién'' * 1998:

Lucía Etxebarria ''Lucía'' is a 1968 Cuban black-and-white drama film directed by Humberto Solás, and written by Solás, Julio García Espinosa and Nelson Rodríguez. It was the winner of the Golden Prize and the Prix FIPRESCI at the 6th Moscow International F ...

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 Universidad Complutense of Madrid, he worked as a lawyer from 1992 to 2002. He has written stories, artic ...

for ''El alquimista impaciente'' * 2001: Fernando Marías Amondo for ''El niño de los coroneles'' * 2002:

Ángela Vallvey Ángela Vallvey Arévalo (born 1964 in San Lorenzo de Calatrava, Ciudad Real (province), Ciudad Real) is a Spanish writer. She studied Modern History at University of Granada, and she later took some courses of anthropology and philosophy. Aft ...

for ''Los estados carenciales'' * 2003:

Andrés Trapiello Andrés Trapiello (born 1953) is a noted Spanish poet and writer. He was born in Manzaneda de Torío, León, and studied at the University of Valladolid. He moved to Madrid in 1975, and has lived in the capital ever since. His first book of poe ...

for ''Los amigos del crimen perfecto'' * 2004:

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for ''El camino de los ingleses'' * 2005:

Pedro Zarraluki Pedro Zarraluki (born 1954) is a Spanish writer. He was born in Barcelona. He published his first book at the age of 20 and has written several novels and short story collections since then. He has won numerous prizes, including the Premio Nada ...

for ''Un encargo difícil'' * 2006:

Eduardo Lago Eduardo Lago (born 16 June 1954) is a Spanish novelist, translator, and literary critic, born in Madrid and currently living in Manhattan, New York, United States. In 2002, he was the recipient of the Bartolomé March Award for Excellence in Litera ...

for ''Llámame Brooklyn'' * 2007:

Felipe Benítez Reyes Felipe Benítez Reyes (born 1960) is a prolific Spanish writer. He was born in Rota, Cadiz, where he lives to this day. Biography He studied at the University of Cádiz and University of Seville. His literary output spans multiple genres, incl ...

for ''Mercado de espejismos'' * 2008:

Francisco Casavella Francisco Casavella was the pseudonym of Francisco Garcia Hortelano (15 October 1963 – 17 December 2008), a Spanish novelist. He never used his real name to sign his works, as his surname coincides with that of another novelist, Juan Garcí ...

for ''Lo que sé de los vampiros'' * 2009:

Maruja Torres Maria Dolores Torres Manzanera, known as Maruja Torres (Barcelona, 16 March 1943), is a Spanish writer and journalist. She is a recipient of the Premio Planeta de Novela and the Premio Nadal. Biography Her parents were from Murcia, and she was bo ...

for ''Esperadme en el cielo'' * 2010: Clara Sanchez for ''Lo que esconde tu nombre'' * 2011:

Alicia Giménez Bartlett Alicia Giménez Bartlett (born 10 June 1951 in Almansa, Albacete, Spain) is a Spanish writer particularly known for her series of detective novels with protagonist Petra Delicado. Biography Her first novel, ''Exit'' was published in 1984. In 199 ...

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. Born in Santander, Cantabria, he studied at the Complutense University of Madrid and received a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy at Birkbeck, Univers ...

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'' * 2016: for ''La víspera de casi todo''Víctor del Árbol gana el Premio Nadal 2016 con la novela 'La víspera de casi todo'
/ref> * 2017: Care Santos for ''Media vida'' * 2018: for ''Un amor'' * 2019: Guillermo Martínez for ''Los crímenes de Alicia'' * 2020:

Ana Merino Ana Merino (born 1971) is a Spanish poet. Biography Ana Merino was born in Madrid in 1971, daughter of José María Merino. Ana Merino was between 2004 and 2009 an Assistant Professor of Spanish at Dartmouth College. She left Dartmouth in 2009 ...

for ''El mapa de los afectos'' * 2021:

Najat El Hachmi Najat El Hachmi (born in Morocco on July 2, 1979) is a Moroccan-Spanish writer. She holds a degree in Arabic Studies from the University of Barcelona. She is the author of a personal essay on her bicultural identity, and three previous novels, th ...

for ''El lunes nos querrán'' * 2022: Inés Martín Rodrigo for ''Las formas del querer''

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 Gabriel García-Badell Lapetra (28 May 1936 – 11 March 1994) was a Spanish writer. He received a degree in law and is linked to Aragon, where he worked as a lawyer for the IRYDA (Institute of agricultural reform and development). His first n ...

for ''De las Armas de Montemolín'' * 1971: Gustavo Álvarez de Gardeazábal for ''Dabeiba'' * 1972:

for ''Las cartas cayeron boca abajo'' and Bernardo Víctor Carande for ''Suroeste'' * 1973:

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:

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 Lola Beccaria is a Spanish writer who is based in Madrid. Life Beccaria was born in Ferrol in Galicia in 1963. She has a doctorate in Hispanic studies. She has written several novels which have been translated into a number of different language ...

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 for ''El Club de la Memoria'' * 2009: Rubén Abella for ''El libro del amor esquivo'' * 2013:

Esteban Navarro Esteban Navarro Soriano (born 18 March 1965, in Moratalla) is a Spanish novelist. Career In 2011 Soriano earned numerous sales successes with the national police trilogy Moisés Guzmán, protagonist to date of three novels: ''El Buen Padre'', ' ...

for ''La noche de los peones''

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