The National Prize for Arts and Sciences ( es, Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes) is awarded annually by the

Government of Mexico The Federal government of Mexico (alternately known as the Government of the Republic or ' or ') is the national government of the United Mexican States, the central government established by its constitution to share sovereignty over the republi ...

in six categories. It is part of the

Mexican Honours System The Mexican Honors system consists of civil orders, decorations and medals that are conferred on citizens and foreigners in recognition of their services and achievements. Although the indigenous empires that made up modern Mexico had their own wa ...

and was established in 1945. The prize is a gold medal and 520,000

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Selected winners

''For a complete list of winners in tabular format, see the corresponding article in Spanish.''

Linguistics and literature

''Lingüística y Literatura'' *1935:

Gregorio López y Fuentes Gregorio is a masculine given name and a surname. It may refer to: Given name * Gregorio Conrado Álvarez (1925–2016), Uruguayan army general and de facto President of Uruguay from 1981 until 1985 * Gregorio Álvarez (historian) (1889–1986), ...

*1946:

Alfonso Reyes Alfonso Reyes Ochoa (17 May 1889 in Monterrey, Nuevo León – 27 December 1959 in Mexico City) was a Mexican writer, philosopher and diplomat. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times and has been acclaimed as one of th ...

*1949: Mariano Azuela González *1958:

Martín Luis Guzmán Martín Luis Guzmán Franco (October 6, 1887 – December 22, 1976) was a Mexican novelist and journalist. Along with Mariano Azuela and Nellie Campobello, he is considered a pioneer of the revolutionary novel, a genre inspired by the experiences ...

*1964: Carlos Pellicer Cámara *1965: Ángel María Garibay *1966:

Jaime Torres Bodet Jaime Mario Torres Bodet (17 April 1902 – 13 May 1974) was a prominent Mexican politician and writer who served in the executive cabinet of three President of Mexico, Presidents of Mexico. Life Torres Bodet was born in Mexico City. His mot ...

*1967: Salvador Novo López *1968: José Gorostiza *1969: Silvio Zavala Vallado *1970:

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 th ...

*1971:

Daniel Cosío Villegas Daniel Cosío Villegas (July 23, 1898 – March 10, 1976) was a Mexican prominent economist, essayist, historian, and diplomat. Cosío Villegas was born in Mexico City. After studying one year in engineering and two years of philosophy, he receiv ...

*1972:

Rodolfo Usigli Rodolfo Usigli (November 17, 1905 – June 18, 1979) was a Mexican playwright, essayist and diplomat. He has been called "the father of Mexican theater" and "playwright of the Mexican Revolution." In recognition of his work to articulate a natio ...

*1973:

Agustín Yáñez Agustín Yáñez Delgadillo (May 4, 1904 in Guadalajara, Jalisco – January 17, 1980 in Mexico City) was a Mexican writer and politician who served as Governor of Jalisco and Secretary of Public Education during Gustavo Díaz Ordaz's presidenc ...

*1974:

Rubén Bonifaz Nuño Rubén Bonifaz Nuño (12 November 1923 – 31 January 2013) was a Mexican poet and classics, classical scholar. Born in Córdoba, Veracruz, he studied law at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) from 1934 to 1947. In 1960, he b ...

*1975:

Francisco Monterde Francisco de Asís Monterde García Icazbalceta (August 9, 1894 in Mexico City – February 27, 1985 in Mexico City) was a prolific and multifaceted Mexican writer whose career spanned over fifty years. He was an important promoter of the arts ...

*1976: ** Antonio Gómez Robledo **

Efraín Huerta Efraín Huerta (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 attend ...

*1977:

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, and ...

*1978:

Fernando Benítez Fernando de Jesus Benitez Gomez (born August 6, 1989) is a Mexican professional basketball player for the Indomables de Ciudad Juarez and the Mexico national basketball team. He participated at the 2017 FIBA AmeriCup The 2017 FIBA AmeriCup was ...

*1979:

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 Lati ...

*1980:

José Luis Martínez Rodríguez José Luis Martínez Rodríguez (1918 in Atoyac, Jalisco) was a Mexican academic, diplomat, essayist, historian, bibliographer and editor. He was the director of the Fondo de Cultura Económica from 1977 to 1982 and professor of literature with th ...

*1981:

Mauricio Magdaleno Mauricio Magdaleno Cardona (13 May 1906 – 30 June 1986), better known as Mauricio Magdaleno, was a Mexican screenwriter and occasional director of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. He was nominated for six Ariel Awards and won for his secon ...

*1982:

Elías Nandino Elías Nandino (April 19, 1900 – October 3, 1993) was a Mexican poet. Biography Nandino was born in Cocula, Jalisco. As a boy, he was brought up in the Catholic religion and served as an altar boy. He also attended Catholic school. Nandino's f ...

*1983:

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 ...

*1984:

Carlos Fuentes Macías 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 ''Christophe ...

*1985:

Marco Antonio Montes de Oca Marco Antonio Montes de Oca (August 3, 1932 - February 7, 2009) was a Mexican poet and painter. Montes de Oca was a prolific and influential poet whose principal books include: ''Ruina de la infame Babilonia'' (1953), and ''Delante de la luz can ...

*1986: Rafael Solana *1987:

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, state o ...

*1988:

Eduardo Lizalde Eduardo Lizalde Chávez (14 July 1929 – 25 May 2022) was a Mexican poet, academic and administrator. Lizalde was known as "El Tigre" for recurring themes in his work which stem from his childhood fondness for the stories of Salgari and Kipling ...

*1993:

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 ...

*1995: Juan Miguel Lope Blanch *2000:

Margit Frenk Margit Frenk Freund (in full, Margarita Ana María Frenk y Freund), sometimes known by her married name, Margit Frenk Alatorre (born 21 August 1925 in Hamburg), is a German-Mexican philologist, folklorist and translator. She has been an Academic N ...

*2001:

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.'' He was awa ...

*2002:

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 th ...

*2004:

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 ...

*2005:

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. ...

*2010:

Maruxa Vilalta Maria Vilalta i Soteras (23 September 1932 – 19 August 2014) was a Catalan-born Mexican playwright and a theatre director. Her plays have been translated, published and produced in numerous countries. She won the critic’s prize for the be ...

*2011:

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 lan ...

*2013: ** Hugo Gutiérrez Vega **

Luis Fernando Lara Ramos Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name or . Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese and Galician, in Aragonese and Catalan, while is archaic ...

*2014: **Dolores Castro **

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 ...

*2015: ** David Huerta **Felipe Garrido **Yolanda Lastra *2016:Elsa María Cross y Anzaldúa *2017:Alberto Ruy Sánchez *2018:Angelina Muñiz-Huberman *2019: Concepción Company *2020:

Jesús Adolfo Castañón Morán Jesus ( AD 30 or 33) was a Jewish preacher and religious leader who most Christians believe to be the incarnation of God and Muslims believe was a prophet. Jesus may also refer to: People Religious figures * Elymas Bar-Jesus, a Jew in the ''Ac ...

Physics, Mathematics, and Natural Sciences

''Ciencias Físico-Matemáticas y Naturales'' *1948: Maximiliano Ruiz Castañeda *1957:

Nabor Carrillo Flores Nabor Carrillo Flores (23 February 1911, in Mexico City – 19 February 1967) is the third son of Mexican composer Julián Carrillo Trujillo, and younger brother of Antonio Carrillo Flores. He did his first studies in Mexico City and he continued ...

*1959:

Manuel Sandoval Vallarta Manuel Sandoval Vallarta (11 February 1899 – 18 April 1977) was a Mexican physicist. He was a Physics professor at both MIT and the Institute of Physics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Biography Sandoval Vallart ...

*1961:

Ignacio Chávez Sánchez Ignacio Chávez Sánchez, M.D., F.A.C.P. (born 31 January 1897 in Zirándaro, Guerrero – d. 13 July 1979 in Mexico City) was a prominent Mexican educator, cardiologist, and founding member of El Colegio Nacional. Education and professio ...

*1963: Guillermo Haro Barraza *1964: Ignacio González Guzmán *1966: Arturo Rosenblueth Stearns *1967:

José Adem Chaín 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 ...

*1968: Salvador Zubirán Anchondo *1969: ** Fernando de Alba Andrade **

Ignacio Bernal Ignacio Bernal (February 13, 1910 in Paris - January 24, 1992 in Mexico City) was an eminent Mexican anthropologist and archaeologist. Bernal excavated much of Monte Albán, originally starting as a student of Alfonso Caso, and later led major ar ...

*1970: Carlos Graef Fernández *1971: Jesús Romo Armería *1972: ** Antonio González Ochoa ** Isaac Costero Tudanca ** Luis Sánchez Medal *1973: Carlos Casas Campillo *1974: ** Emilio Rosenblueth Deutsch **

Ruy Pérez Tamayo Ruy Pérez Tamayo (8 November 1924 – 26 January 2022) was a Mexican medical pathologist, immunologist, researcher, science communicator and academic. Life and career Born in Tampico, Pérez Tamayo graduated in medicine and specialised in pa ...

*1975: **

Arcadio Poveda Ricalde Renán Arcadio Poveda Ricalde (15 July 1930 – 24 March 2022 Samuel Gitler Hammer Samuel Carlos Gitler Hammer (July 14, 1933 – September 9, 2014)
Pablo Rudomín Zevnovaty *1980: Guillermo Soberón Acevedo *1981: Manuel Peimbert Sierra *1982: Bernardo Sepúlveda Gutiérrez *1983: Octavio Augusto Novaro *1984: José Ruiz Herrera *1985:

Marcos Rojkind Matlyuk Marcos Rojkind Matlyuk (July 29, 1935 in Mexico City – September 10, 2011 in Washington, DC) known as Marcos Rojkind, was a professor, doctor, inventor of biotechnology, expert on hepatic fibrosis and winner of the National Prize for Arts and S ...

*1986: Adolfo Martínez Palomo *2002:

Luis de la Peña Luis Fernando de la Peña-Auerbach known as Luis de la Peña is a Mexican physicist, born in Mexico City in 1931. He is a researcher of the Institute of Physics and professor of the Faculty of Sciences of the National Autonomous University of M ...

*2006:

Juan Ramón de la Fuente Juan Ramón de la Fuente Ramírez (born 5 September 1951 in Mexico City) is a Mexican psychiatrist, academician and politician who served as Secretary of Health in the cabinet of President Ernesto Zedillo (1994–1999) and as rector of the Nat ...

*2007: Silvia Torres Castilleja *2008: **Edmundo García Moya **Alberto Robledo Nieto **Moisés Selman *2009: **Alberto Darszon Israel **Jaime Urrutia Fucugauchi *2010: **Marcelo Lozada y Cassou **Gerardo Gamba Ayala *2011:

Julio Collado-Vides Julio Collado-Vides is a Guatemalan scientist and Professor of Computational Genomics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. His research focuses on genomics and bioinformatics. Education Collado-Vides studied at the National Autonomous ...

*2012: **

Ruben Gerardo Barrera Ruben Gerardo Barrera (born 3 February 1943) is a Mexican physicist, professor emeritus at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). His main interest has been the optical properties of inhomogeneous systems. Born in Mexico City, he stu ...

**Carlos Artemio Coello Coello **

Susana Lizano Estela Susana Lizano Soberón (born March 29, 1957) is a Mexican Astrophysics, astrophysicist and researcher. She has specialized in the theoretical study of star formation. Studies and teaching Lizano earned a degree in physics at the School of ...

*2013: ** Federico Bermúdez Rattoni **Magdaleno Medina Noyola *2014: **Carlos Federico Arias Ortiz **Mauricio Hernández Ávila *2015: **

Jorge Alcocer Varela Jorge Alcocer Varela (born 8 February 1946) is a Mexican immunologist, researcher, teacher and healthcare professional. Since 1 December 2018 he has served as the head of Secretariat of Health of Mexico, appointed by President Andrés Manuel L� ...

**Fernando del Río Haza *2016: **

Cecilia Noguez Ana Cecilia Noguez Garrido (born July 17, 1966) is a Mexican physicist, professor, and science communicator; she is a researcher and was the first female director of the Institute of Physics of the National Autonomous University of Mexico from 2 ...

**David Kershenobich Stalnikowitz *2017:

María Elena Álvarez-Buylla Roces María Elena Álvarez-Buylla Roces (born July 11, 1959) is a Mexican professor of molecular genetics at National Autonomous University of Mexico and the director of the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología appointed by Andrés Manuel López ...

*2018: **Carlos Alberto Aguilar Salinas **Mónica Alicia Clapp Jiménez Labora

Technology and Design

''Tecnología y Diseño'' *1976: ** Reinaldo Pérez Rayón ** Wenceslao X. López Martín del Campo *1977: Francisco Rafael del Valle Canseco *1978:

Enrique del Moral Enrique del Moral Dominguez (21 January 1905 – 11 June 1987) was a Mexican architect and an exponent of the functionalism movement, a modernist group that included Mexican artists and architects such as José Villagrán Garcia, Carlos Obreg� ...

*1979: Juan Celada Salmón *1980: Marcos Mazari Menzer *1981: Luis Esteva Maraboto *1982: Raúl J. Marsal Córdoba *1983: José Antonio Ruiz de la Herrán Villagómez *1984: Jorge Suárez Díaz *1985: José Luis Sánchez Bribiesca *1986: Daniel Malacara Hernández *1987: Enrique Hong Chong *1988: Mayra de la Torre *1990: ** Daniel Reséndiz Núñez ** Juan Milton Garduño *1991: **

Octavio Paredes López Octavio Paredes López (born 1946 in Mocorito, Sinaloa), is a Mexican biochemical engineer and food scientist. He is a past president of the Mexican Academy of Sciences, a founding member of the International Academy of Food Science and Technology, ...

** Roberto Meli Piralla *1992: ** Lorenzo Martínez Gómez ** Gabriel Torres Villaseñor *1993: José Ricardo Gómez Romero *1994: ** Francisco Sánchez Sesma ** Juan Vázquez Lomberta *1995: Alfredo Sánchez Marroquín *1996: ** Adolfo Guzmán Arenas ** María Luisa Ortega Delgado *1997: ** Baltasar Mena Iniesta ** Feliciano Sánchez Silencio *1999: Jesús Gonzales Hernández *2000: Francisco Alfonso Larque Saavedra *2001: Filberto Vázquez Dávila *2002:

Alexander Balankin Alexander Balankin (born March 3, 1958) is a Mexican scientist of Russian origin (:ru:Баланкин, Александр Сергеевич, Баланкин, Александр Сергеевич) whose work in the field of fractal mechanics an ...

*2003: Octavio Manero Brito *2004: **Héctor Mario Gómez Galvarriata **Martín Guillermo Hernández Luna **Arturo Menchaca *2005: Alejandro Alagón Cano *2006: Fernando Samaniego Verduzco *2007: Miguel Pedro Romo Organista *2008: María de los Ángeles Valdés *2009: **Blanca Elena Jiménez Cisneros **José Luis Leyva Montiel *2010: Sergio Revah Moiseev *2011: Raúl Gerardo Quintero Flores *2012: Sergio Antonio Estrada Parra *2013: Martín Ramón Aluja Schuneman Hofer *2014: José Mauricio López Romero *2015: **

Raúl Rojas Raúl Rojas González (born 1955, in Mexico City) is an emeritus professor of Computer Science and Mathematics at the Free University of Berlin, and a renowned specialist in artificial neural networks. The FU-Fighters, football-playing robots ...

**Enrique Galindo Fentanes *2016: **Lourival Possani Postay **Luis Enrique Sucar Succar *2017:

Emilio Sacristan Rock Emilio Sacristan Rock (born November 7, 1965) is a Mexican researcher, inventor and entrepreneur in the field of medical technology. He is currently professor of electrical and biomedical engineering, Director and Founder of the National Center ...

*2018: **Ricardo Chicurel Uziel **

Leticia Myriam Torres Guerra Leticia Myriam Torres Guerra (born September 9, 1955) is a Mexican chemist. Her research work focuses on the development and synthesis of advanced materials such as semiconductors and their application as powders and films in renewable energy an ...

Popular Arts and Traditions

''Artes y Tradiciones Populares'' * 1984: Artesanos de

Santa Clara del Cobre Santa Clara del Cobre () is a Magical town (Pueblo Mágico) and municipality located in the center of the state of Michoacán, Mexico, 18 km from Pátzcuaro and 79 km from the state capital of Morelia. While the official name of the mun ...

* 1985: ** Banda Infantil del centro de Capacitación Musical de la región Mixe ** Grupo de teñidores mixtecos del caracol púrpura panza,

Pinotepa Nacional Pinotepa Nacional (formally: Santiago Pinotepa Nacional; in Mixtec, ''Ñuu Ñoko'', which means Twenty-House Town) is a city and seat of the municipality of the same name, in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. It is located in the Jamiltepec District in ...

* 1986: ** Grupo de danza regional

Chichimeca Chichimeca () is the name that the Nahua peoples of Mexico generically applied to nomadic and semi-nomadic peoples who were established in present-day Bajio region of Mexico. Chichimeca carried the meaning as the Roman term "barbarian" that des ...

Querétaro Querétaro (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Querétaro ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Querétaro, links=no; Otomi language, Otomi: ''Hyodi Ndämxei''), is one of the Political divisions of Mexico, 32 federal entities of Mexico. I ...

** Sociedad de artesanos indígenas Sna Jolobil * 1989:

Consuelo Velázquez Consuelo Velázquez Torres (August 21, 1916 in Ciudad Guzmán, Jalisco – January 22, 2005, Mexico City), also popularly known as Consuelito Velázquez, was a Mexican concert pianist and composer. She was the composer of famous Mexican ballads ...

* 1990: Pedro Linares López * 1998: Band

Tlayacapan Tlayacapan () is the name of a town and a municipality located in the northeast part of Morelos state in central Mexico. It is located 60 km east from the state capital of Cuernavaca and about 1.5 hours south of Mexico City. It is a rural are ...

*2013: Narciso Lico Carrillo * 2014: **

Carlomagno Pedro Martínez Carlomagno Pedro Martínez (born August 17, 1965) is a Mexican artist and artisan in “ barro negro” ceramics from San Bartolo Coyotepec, in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. He comes from a family of potters in a town noted for the craft. He bega ...

** Alberto Vargas Castellano * 2015: Los Folkloristas and Victorina López Hilario * 2016:

Manuela Cecilia Lino Bello Manuela may refer to: People * Manuela (given name), a Spanish and Portuguese feminine given name * Manuela (singer) (1943–2001), German singer of Schlager songs Film and television * ''Manuela'' (1957 film), a British film directed by Guy Hami ...

* 2017: Francisco Barnett Astorga * 2018: Leonor Farlow Espinoza *2019: Carmen Vázquez Hernández *2020: Mario Agustín Gaspar Rodríguez

Fine arts

''Bellas Artes'' *1981:

José Luis Cuevas José Luis Cuevas (February 26, 1934 – July 3, 2017) was a Mexican artist, he often worked as a painter, writer, draftsman, engraver, illustrator, and printmaker. Cuevas was one of the first to challenge the then dominant Mexican muralism ...

*1982: **

Abraham Zabludovsky Abraham Zabludovsky (born Abraham Zabludowski Kraveski; June 14, 1924 – April 10, 2003) was a Mexican architect. He was the brother of the well known journalist Jacobo Zabludovsky. Abraham Zabludovsky was born in Białystok, Poland. He stud ...

Teodoro González de León Teodoro González de León (May 29, 1926 – September 16, 2016) was a Mexican architect. Biography González de León studied at the Escuela Nacional de Arquitectura of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) from 1942 to 19 ...

*1983:

Manuel Enríquez Manuel Enríquez Salazar (17 June 1926 – 26 April 1994) was a Mexican composer, violinist and pedagogue. He was a fellow member of the Academy of Arts of Mexico, of the National Seminary of Mexican Culture and the music director of the Nationa ...

*1984:

Pedro Coronel Pedro Coronel (b. Jerez, Zacatecas March 25, 1922- d. Mexico City May 23, 1985) was a Mexican sculptor and painter, part of the Generación de la Ruptura, bringing innovation into Mexican art in the mid 20th century. Coronel’s training was with ...

*1985: Alberto Beltrán García *1986:

Mario Pani Mario Pani Darqui (March 29, 1911 – February 23, 1993) was a famous Mexican architect and urbanist. He was one of the most active urbanists under the Mexican Miracle, and gave form to a good part of the urban appearance of Mexico City, with ...

*1987: Juan Soriano *1988:

Manuel Felguérez Aspe Manuel may refer to: People * Manuel (name) * Manuel (Fawlty Towers), a fictional character from the sitcom ''Fawlty Towers'' * Charlie Manuel, manager of the Philadelphia Phillies * Manuel I Komnenos, emperor of the Byzantine Empire * M ...

*1989: Ignacio Díaz Morales *1990:

Olga Costa Olga Costa (August 28, 1913 – June 28, 1993) was a painter and cultural promoter who immigrated to Mexico from Germany when she was twelve. She began to study art at the Academy of San Carlos but left after only three months to help support her ...

*1991: **

Mario Lavista Mario Lavista (April 3, 1943 – November 4, 2021) was a Mexican composer, writer and intellectual. Life and career Lavista was born in Mexico City. He enrolled the Composition Workshop (Taller de Composición) at the National Conservatory in 19 ...

Ricardo Legorreta Vilchis Ricardo Legorreta Vilchis (May 7, 1931 – December 30, 2011) was a Mexican architect. He was a prolific designer of private houses, public buildings and master plans in Mexico, the United States of America and some other countries. He was award ...

** Vicente Rojo Almazán *1992: ** Amalia Hernández Navarro ** José Jesús Francisco Zúñiga Chavarría ** Manuel de Elías Mondragón *1993:

Carlos Jiménez Mabarak Carlos Jiménez Mabarak (January 31, 1916 in Tacuba (Mexico), Tacuba, Mexico – June 21, 1994 in Mexico City) was one of the most prolific Mexican composers of the 20th century. His music belongs to the transition from the Mexican Nationalis ...

*1994: Héctor Mendoza Franco *1995: Federico Silva *1996:

Luis Nishizawa Luis Nishizawa (February 2, 1918 – September 29, 2014) was a Mexican artist known for his landscape work and murals, which often show Japanese and Mexican influence. He began formal training as an artist in 1942 at the height of the Mexican mu ...

*1997:

Arturo Ripstein Arturo Ripstein y Rosen (born December 13, 1943) is a Mexican film director and screenwriter. Considered the "Godfather of independent Mexican cinema", Ripstein's work is generally characterized by "somber, slow-paced, macabre melodramas tackling ...

*1998:

Francisco Toledo Francisco Benjamín López Toledo (17 July 1940 – 5 September 2019) was a Mexican Zapotec painter, sculptor, and graphic artist. In a career that spanned seven decades, Toledo produced thousands of works of art and became widely regarded a ...

*1999:

Guillermo Arriaga Fernández Guillermo Arriaga Fernández (July 4, 1926 – January 3, 2014) was a Mexican dancer, choreographer and composer. In 1996, he received the José Limón National Dance Award. Guillermo Arriaga Fernández died from pneumonia on January 3, ...

*2000: José Raúl Anguiano Valadez *2001: ** José Alejandro Dionisio Luna Ledesma ** Alfredo Zalce Torres ** Federico Ibarra Groth *2002: Héctor Cobo *2003: ** Gilberto Horacio Aceves Navarro **

J. Francisco Serrano Cacho José Juan Francisco Alfonso Serrano Cacho (b. Mexico City, October 30, 1937) is a Mexican architect. Biography Serrano was son of the architect Francisco J. Serrano. He studied at Universidad Iberoamericana until 1960. Afterwards he worked t ...

** Ludwik Margules Coben *2004: Juan José Gurrola *2005:

Leonora Carrington Mary Leonora Carrington (6 April 191725 May 2011) was a British-born Mexican artist, surrealist painter, and novelist. She lived most of her adult life in Mexico City and was one of the last surviving participants in the surrealist movement of ...

*2009: **

Helen Escobedo Helen "Elena" Escobedo (July 28, 1934 – September 16, 2010) was a Mexican sculptor and installation artist who has had work displayed all over the world from Mexico, Latin America, the United States, and Canada to the United Kingdom, (Germany) ...

Arturo Márquez Arturo Márquez Navarro (born 20 December 1950) is a Mexican composer of orchestral music who uses musical forms and styles of his native Mexico and incorporates them into his compositions. Life Márquez was born in Álamos, Sonora, in 1950 wher ...

*2010: **Luis López Loza **

Marta Palau Bosch Marta Palau Bosch (17 July 1934 – 13 August 2022) was a Spanish-Mexican artist who resided in Mexico. She worked in engraving, painting, sculpture, and most prominently in tapestries, defining herself by her profound artistic use and arrangem ...

*2011: **

Pedro Cervantes Pedro Miguel de Cervantes Salvadores (2 October 1933 – 26 October 2020) was a Mexican sculptor who exhibited in Mexico and abroad and created large monumental works for various locations in the country. Some of his work is noted for its use of ...

Jorge Fons Jorge Fons Pérez (23 April 1939 – 22 September 2022) was a Mexican film director. He belonged to the first generation of film directors of the UNAM. His short film, ''Caridad'' (1973), is still considered one of the best films in Mexican ci ...

*2012: **Arón Claudio Bitrán Goren **

Fernando González Gortázar Fernando González Gortázar (19 October 1942 – 7 October 2022) was a Mexican architect, sculptor, and writer, considered to be one of the most influential Mexican architects of the 20th century. Life and career Fernando González Gortázar ...

** Helene Joy Laville Perren **

*2013: ** Javier Álvarez (composer) **

Ángela Gurría Ángela Gurría Davó (24 March 1929 – 17 February 2023) was a Mexican sculptor. In 1974, she became the first female member of the Academia de Artes. She is best known for her monumental sculptures such as ''Señal'', an eighteen-meter tall ...

Paul Leduc (film director) Paul Leduc Rosenzweig (11 March 1942 – 21 October 2020) was a Mexican film director. One of Leduc's most acclaimed works is '' Frida, naturaleza viva'' (1983 – marketed as ''Frida'' in the U.S.), a tribute to the indomitable spirit and deter ...

*2014: Arnaldo José Coen Ávila *2015: **

Sebastián (sculptor) Sebastián (born Enrique Carbajal González on November 16, 1947) is a Mexican sculptor best known for his monumental works of steel and/or concrete in both Mexico and abroad. These include a number of “gate” sculptures such as the Gran Puer ...

Ignacio López Tarso Ignacio López López (born 15 January 1925), known professionally as Ignacio López Tarso, is a Mexican actor of stage, film and television. He has acted in about 50 films and appeared in documentaries and in one short feature. In 1973 he was g ...

** Fernando López Carmona *2016: Gabriela Ortiz Torres *2017: Nicolás Echevarría *2018: **Ricardo Chicurel Uziel **

*2019:

Abraham Oceransky Abraham, ; ar, , , name=, group= (originally Abram) is the common Hebrew patriarch of the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In Judaism, he is the founding father of the special relationship between the Jews ...

*2020: Alfredo Federico López Austin

History, Social Sciences, and Philosophy

''Historia, Ciencias Sociales y Filosofía'' *1960:

Alfonso Caso Alfonso Caso y Andrade (February 1, 1896 in Mexico City – November 30, 1970 in Mexico City) was an archaeologist who made important contributions to pre-Columbian studies in his native Mexico. Caso believed that the systematic study of ancient M ...

*1962:

Jesús Silva Herzog Jesús Silva Herzog (14 November 1892 – 13 March 1985) was a Mexican economist and historian specialized in the Mexican Revolution and a member of The National College. He received the National Prize for Arts and Sciences in 1962. His s ...

*1976:

Eduardo García Máynez Eduardo García Máynez (January 11, 1908 – September 2, 1993) was an academic, jurist and philosopher of Mexican law. He was a member of the National College, managing Director of Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico, teacher at Natio ...

*1977: Víctor L. Urquidi Bingham *1978: Mario de la Cueva *1979:

Gonzalo Aguirre Beltrán Gonzalo Aguirre Beltrán (January 20, 1908 in Tlacotalpan, Veracruz –1996 in Xalapa, Veracruz) was a Mexican anthropologist known for his studies of marginal populations. His work has focused on Afro-Mexican and indigenous populations. He was t ...

*1980:

Leopoldo Zea Aguilar Leopoldo Zea Aguilar (June 30, 1912 – June 8, 2004) was a Mexican philosopher. Biography Zea was born in Mexico City. One of the integral Latin Americanism thinkers in history, Zea became famous thanks to his master's thesis, ''El Positivis ...

*1981:

Miguel León-Portilla Miguel León-Portilla (22 February 1926 – 1 October 2019) was a Mexican anthropologist and historian, specializing in Aztec culture and literature of the pre-Columbian and colonial eras. Many of his works were translated to English and he was ...

*1982: Héctor Fix Zamudio *1983:

Luis González y González Luis González y González (11 October 1925 – 13 December 2003) was a Mexican historian from San José de Gracia, Michoacán, San José de Gracia, Michoacán. He was an expert on the Mexican revolution and Mexican presidentialism. He publi ...

*1984: Pablo González Casanova *1985: Alfonso Noriega Cantú *1986: Luis Villoro Toranzo *1997:

Rodolfo Stavenhagen Rodolfo Stavenhagen (29 August 1932 – 5 November 2016) was a German-born Mexican sociologist and anthropologist who specialized in the study of human rights and the political relations between indigenous peoples and states. He was a professor-r ...

*2001:

Ida Rodríguez Prampolini Ida Rodríguez Prampolini (24 September 1925 – 26 July 2017) was a Mexican academic, art historian and cultural preservationist, who was heavily involved in the creation of organizations and institutions to preserve the artistic traditions of M ...

*2002:

Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez (September 17, 1915 – July 8, 2011) was a Spanish-born Mexican philosopher, writer and professor born in Algeciras, Andalucia. Biography After studying philosophy at the University of Madrid, Vázquez emigrated to M ...

*2007: **

Pilar Gonzalbo Aizpuru Pilar Gonzalbo Aizpuru (born 1935 in Madrid, Spain) is a Spanish-Mexican academic who specializes in the cultural history of New Spain. In 2007 she received, along archaeologist Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, the National Prize for Arts and Sciences ...

Eduardo Matos Moctezuma Eduardo Matos Moctezuma (born December 11, 1940) is a Mexican archaeologist. From 1978 to 1982 he directed excavations at the Templo Mayor, the remains of a major Aztec pyramid in central Mexico City. Matos Moctezuma graduated with a ma ...

*2008: **Jaime Labastida **Álvaro Matute Aguirre **

Margarita Nolasco Armas Margarita Nolasco Armas (20 November 1932 – 23 September 2008) was a Mexican ethnologist and anthropologist, who pioneered the study of the country's varied people from a cultural rather than national perspective and founded the new facility o ...

*2009: ** Enrique de la Garza Toledo **

José Ramón Cossío José Ramón Cossío Díaz (born 26 December 1960) is a Mexican jurist and Associate Justice ''(ministro)'' of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation. Born in Mexico City, Cossío Díaz studied law at the University of Colima and a master's an ...

*2010: **

Enrique Krauze Enrique Krauze (Mexico City, September 16, 1947) is a Mexican historian, essayist, editor, and entrepreneur. He has written more than twenty books, some of which are: ''Mexico: Biography of Power'', ''Redeemers'', and ''El pueblo soy yo'' (''I a ...

** Soledad Loaeza *2011: **

Jean Meyer Jean Meyer Barth (born February 8, 1942) is a French-Mexican historian and author, known for his writings on early 20th-century Mexican history. He has published extensively on the Mexican Revolution and Cristero War, the history of Nayarit, and ...

** Lorenzo Meyer *2012: ** Carlos Marichal ** Carlos Muñoz Izquierdo *2013: **

Roger Bartra Roger Bartra Murià (born November 7, 1942, in Mexico City) is a Mexican sociologist and anthropologist, son of the exiled Catalan writers Agustí Bartra and Anna Murià, who settled in Mexico after the defeat of the democratic forces in the ...

** Carlos Martínez Assad *2014: **

Néstor García Canclini Néstor García Canclini (born 1939) is an Argentine-born academic and anthropologist known for his theorization of the concept of "hybridity." Biography García Canclini was born December 1, 1939 in La Plata, Argentina. Three years after rece ...

** Enrique Semo *2015: Antonio Armando García de León Griego *2016: Aurelio de los Reyes *2017: Mercedes de la Garza Camino *2018: Salomón Nahmad y Sittón *2019:

Diego Valadés Diego is a Spanish masculine given name. The Portuguese equivalent is Diogo. The name also has several patronymic derivations, listed below. The etymology of Diego is disputed, with two major origin hypotheses: ''Tiago'' and ''Didacus''. Et ...

*2020: Manuel de Jesús Hernández

Special award

In a controversial move, in 2020 Bertha Cecilia Navarro y Solares, movie producer, was awarded an ″extraordinary distinction.″

References

External links

Prize rules (2006), Secretaría de Educación Pública
{{DEFAULTSORT:National Prize For Arts And Sciences Mexican awards