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 republ ...

in six categories. It is part of the Mexican Honours System and was established in 1945. The prize is a gold medal and 520,000 pesos.

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 *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 *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 nati ...

*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 preside ...

*1974: Rubén Bonifaz Nuño *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 *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 *1982: Elías Nandino *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 ''Christopher ...

*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 ...

*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 Emilio Salgari, Sal ...

*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 (film), The Chi ...

*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 ...

*2005: Carlos Monsiváis *2010: Maruxa Vilalta *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

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 continu ...

*1959: Manuel Sandoval Vallarta *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 professi ...

*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 *1975: ** Arcadio Poveda Ricalde ** Guillermo Massieu ** Joaquín Gravioto *1976: ** Ismael Herrera Revilla ** Julían Adem Chahín **

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 *2006: Juan Ramón de la Fuente *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 *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 *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 **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 * 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 ...

* 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 d ...

de Querétaro ** Sociedad de artesanos indígenas Sna Jolobil * 1989: Consuelo Velázquez * 1990: Pedro Linares López * 1998: Band Tlayacapan *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 beg ...

** 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), ''Manuela'' (1957 film), a British film ...

* 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 ** Teodoro González de León *1983: Manuel Enríquez *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 wit ...

*1985: Alberto Beltrán García *1986: Mario Pani *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 *1991: ** Mario Lavista **

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 *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 *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 *2009: ** Helen Escobedo **

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 *2011: ** Pedro Cervantes **

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 c ...

*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) *2014: Arnaldo José Coen Ávila *2015: ** Sebastián (sculptor) **

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 *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 ...

*1980: Leopoldo Zea Aguilar *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 *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 facilit ...

*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 ** 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''. E ...

*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