Premio Nadal is a Spanish
literary
Literature is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially prose fiction, drama, and poetry. In recent centuries, the definition has expanded to includ ...
prize awarded annually by the publishing house
Ediciones Destino, part of
Planeta. It has been awarded every year on 6 January since 1944. The
Josep Pla Award 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.
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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 Literatur ...
for ''Nada''
* 1945: José Félix Tapia for ''La Luna ha entrado en casa''
* 1946: José María Gironella for ''Un hombre''
* 1947: Miguel Delibes for ''La sombra del ciprés es alargada''
* 1948: Sebastián Juan Arbó for ''Sobre las piedras grises''
* 1949: José Suárez Carreño for ''Las últimas horas''
* 1950: Elena Quiroga for ''Viento del Norte''
* 1951: Luis Romero for ''La noria''
* 1952: Dolores Medio for ''Nosotros, los Rivero''
* 1953: Lluïsa Forrellad for ''Siempre en capilla''
* 1954: Francisco José Alcántara for ''La muerte le sienta bien a Villalobos''
* 1955: Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio for ''El Jarama''
* 1956: José Luis Martín Descalzo for ''La frontera de Dios
''La frontera de Dios'' is a 1965 Spanish drama film directed by César Fernández Ardavín, written by José Luis Martín Descalzo and starring Alicia Altabella, Mercedes Barranco, Frank Braña. It is based on the novel by José Luis Martín De ...
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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 o ...
for ''Entre visillos
''Entre visillos'' (English: Behind the Curtains) is the first novel of the late Spanish writer Carmen Martín Gaite, who was from Salamanca. Published in 1957, it is considered one of the author's most important works, and it won the Premio Nadal ...
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* 1958: José Vidal Cadellans
José Vidal Cadellans (1928–1960) was a Spanish novelist. He published only one novel in his lifetime, titled ''No era de los nuestros'', which won the Premio Nadal
Premio Nadal is a Spanish literary prize awarded annually by the publishing hous ...
for ''No era de los nuestros''
* 1959: Ana María Matute for ''Primera memoria''
* 1960: Ramiro Pinilla
Ramiro Pinilla (1923-2014) was a Spanish writer. He was born in Bilbao ( Basque Country) in 1923. He won the Premio Nadal
Premio Nadal is a Spanish literary prize awarded annually by the publishing house Ediciones Destino, part of Planeta. It ...
for ''Ciegas hormigas''
* 1961: for ''El curso''
* 1962: for ''Muerte por fusilamiento''
* 1963: Manuel Mejía Vallejo 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 for ''Réquiem por todos nosotros''
* 1968: Álvaro Cunqueiro 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: Luis Gasulla 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 for ''Flor de sal''
* 1986: Manuel Vicent 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 i ...
for ''La ocasión''
* 1988: for ''Retratos de ambigú''
* 1989: Not awarded
* 1990: Juan José Millás for ''La soledad era esto''
* 1991: for ''Los otros días''
* 1992: Alejandro Gándara 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 t ...
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 for ''El alquimista impaciente''
* 2001: Fernando Marías Amondo for ''El niño de los coroneles''
* 2002: Ángela Vallvey for ''Los estados carenciales''
* 2003: Andrés Trapiello for ''Los amigos del crimen perfecto''
* 2004: Antonio Soler for ''El camino de los ingleses''
* 2005: Pedro Zarraluki 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 Lite ...
for ''Llámame Brooklyn''
* 2007: Felipe Benítez Reyes for ''Mercado de espejismos''
* 2008: Francisco Casavella for ''Lo que sé de los vampiros''
* 2009: Maruja Torres for ''Esperadme en el cielo''
* 2010: Clara Sanchez for ''Lo que esconde tu nombre''
* 2011: Alicia Giménez Bartlett for ''Donde nadie te encuentre''
* 2012: Álvaro Pombo 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''
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* 2017: Care Santos for ''Media vida''
* 2018: for ''Un amor''
* 2019: Guillermo Martínez for ''Los crímenes de Alicia''
* 2020: Ana Merino 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, t ...
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
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 ''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 for ''De las Armas de Montemolín''
* 1971: Gustavo Álvarez de Gardeazábal for ''Dabeiba''
* 1972: Gabriel García-Badell for ''Las cartas cayeron boca abajo'' and Bernardo Víctor Carande for ''Suroeste''
* 1973: Gabriel García-Badell 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: Gabriel García-Badell 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 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''
References
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External links
Ediciones Destino
Spanish literary awards
Awards established in 1944
Planeta literary awards