National Prize for Literature (''Premio Nacional de Literatura de Cuba'') is the national
literature prize
A literary award or literary prize is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded literary piece or body of work. It is normally presented to an author.
Organizations
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of
Cuba
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. It has been given annually since 1983 and recognizes those writers who have enriched the legacy of Cuban literature.
[ It has been called "the most important award of its kind" in Cuba.][
The award is granted by the Instituto Cubano del Libro (Cuban Book Institute part of the Ministry of Culture). The award was founded in 1982 by the Ministerio de Cultura (Ministry of Culture) of the Cuban government.
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Winners
*1983 Nicolás Guillén
Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista (10 July 1902 – 17 July 1989) was a Cuban poet, journalist, political activist, and writer. He is best remembered as the national poet of Cuba.
*1984 José Zacarías Tallet
*1985 Félix Pita Rodríguez
Félix Pita Rodriguez (1909-1990) was a Cuban journalist, poet and literary critic. He was born in Bejucal. An active communist, Rodriguez helped to found the Ibero-American Anti-Fascist Committee during the Spanish Civil War. His literary acqu ...
*1986 Eliseo Diego
Eliseo Diego (July 2, 1920 – March 1, 1994) was a Cuban poet praised for his lyric poetry, and short stories. He was born in Havana and died in Mexico City. Diego, the father of writer Eliseo Alberto, won the Mexican Juan Rulfo Prize in 1993.
H ...
, José Soler Puig, José Antonio Portuondo (shared)
*1987 Dulce María Loynaz
Dulce María Loynaz Muñoz (Havana, Cuba; 10 December 1902 – 27 April 1997) was a Cuban poet, and is considered one of the principal figures of Cuban literature. She was awarded the Miguel de Cervantes Prize in 1992. She earned her Doctorate i ...
*1988 Cintio Vitier
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Early life
Cintio Viti ...
, Dora Alonso
Dora Alonso (born Doralina de la Caridad Alonso-Perez on December 22, 1910, in Maximo Gomez, Matanzas, Cuba – March 21, 2001, in Cuba) was a Cuban journalist and writer who worked in both print and radio. She wrote novels, short stories, poetry, ...
(shared)
*1989 Roberto Fernández Retamar Roberto Fernández Retamar (9 June 1930 – 20 July 2019, Havana) was a Cuban poet, essayist, literary critic and President of the Casa de las Américas. In his role as President of the organization, Fernández also served on the Council of State o ...
*1990 Fina García Marruz
Josefina García-Marruz Badía (28 April 1923 – 27 June 2022), known artistically as Fina García Marruz, was a Cuban poet and literary researcher.
Life
García Marruz was born in Havana on 28 April 1923. She received numerous awards, inclu ...
*1991 Ángel Augier
*1992 Abelardo Estorino
*1993 Francisco de Oraá
*1994 Miguel Barnet
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Places
* Pedro Miguel, a parish in the municipality of Horta and the island of Faial in the Azores Islands
* São Miguel (disa ...
*1995 Jesús Orta Ruiz
*1996 Pablo Armando Fernández
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Born ...
*1997 Carilda Oliver Labra
Carilda Oliver Labra (6 July 1922 – 29 August 2018) was a Cuban poet. She was born in Matanzas and died there as well.
Oliver Labra studied law at the University of Havana. She was also known to excel at drawing, painting and sculpting.
Kno ...
*1998 Roberto Friol
*1999 César López
*2000 Antón Arrufat
Antón Arrufat Mrad (14 August 1935 – 21 May 2023) was a Cuban dramatist, novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist.
Life and career
Arrufat was born in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba on 14 August 1935. He was of mixed Catalan and Lebanese par ...
*2001 Nancy Morejón
Nancy Morejón (born 1944 in Havana) is a Cuban poet, critic, and essayist. She was a recipient of the Struga Poetry Evenings Golden Wreath Award. She is "the best known and most widely translated woman poet of post-revolutionary Cuba".
Biograp ...
*2002 Lisandro Otero
Lisandro Otero González (June 4, 1932 – January 3, 2008) was a Cuban novelist and journalist.
Background
Born in Havana, Cuba, Otero won Cuba's National Prize in Literature in 2002 and was the director of Cuban Academy of Language from October ...
*2003 Reynaldo González
*2004 Jaime Sarusky
*2005 Graziella Pogolotti
*2006 Leonardo Acosta
*2007 Humberto Arenal
*2008 Luis Marré
*2009 Ambrosio Fornet
*2010 Daniel Chavarría
Daniel Chavarría (23 November 1933 – 6 April 2018) was a Uruguayan revolutionary, writer and translator, who lived in Cuba since the 1960s. He had a son with Dora Salazar, Daniel Chavarria, and raised his sister.
Life and works
Daniel Chava ...
*2011 Nersys Felipe Herrera
*2012 Leonardo Padura Fuentes
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Mirta Yáñez
Mirta Gloria Yáñez Quiñoa is a Cuban philologist, teacher and writer. She graduated from high school in Raúl Cepero Bonilla Special Pre-university Institute where she was considered a high-performing student. She entered the University of Ha ...
*2019 Lina de Feria Barrio
References
External links
Premio Nacional de Literatura
at EcuRed
Premios Nacionales de Literatura Directorio
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Cuban literary awards
Awards established in 1982
1982 establishments in Cuba