The Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize (''Premio Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz'') is a literary prize awarded to a book written in
Spanish
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by a female author. It is organized by the
Guadalajara International Book Fair
The Guadalajara International Book Fair, better known as the FIL (from its Spanish name: ) is the largest book fair in the Americas, and second-largest book fair in the world after Frankfurt Book Fair, Frankfurt's. It is also considered the most i ...
, based in
Guadalajara, Jalisco
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,
Mexico
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. Current winners of the prize receive USD$10,000.
History
This prize is named after the 17th century Mexican writer,
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
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who is considered the first great Latin American poet and one of the most important Hispanic literary figures. Sor Juana was persecuted for being an intellectual, a woman, a nun, and a writer who wrote quite provocatively.
The prize has been given out since 1993, and is given out at the yearly
Guadalajara International Book Fair
The Guadalajara International Book Fair, better known as the FIL (from its Spanish name: ) is the largest book fair in the Americas, and second-largest book fair in the world after Frankfurt Book Fair, Frankfurt's. It is also considered the most i ...
(''Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara'').
Winners
* 2022:
Daniela Tarazona (Mexico) ''Isla partida''
* 2021:
Fernanda Trías (Uruguay) ''Mugre rosa'' (translated by Heather Cleary as ''Pink Slime'')
* 2020:
Camila Sosa Villada (Argentina) ''Las malas''
* 2019:
Maria Gainza (Argentina) ''La luz negra''
* 2018:
Clara Usón (Spain) ''El asesino tímido''
* 2017:
Nona Fernández
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Biog ...
(Chile) ''La dimensión desconocida''
* 2016:
Marina Perezagua (Spain) ''Yoro''
* 2015:
Perla Suez (Argentina)'' El país del diablo''
* 2014:
Inés Fernández Moreno (Argentina) ''El cielo no existe''
* 2013:
Ana García Bergua (Mexico) ''La bomba de San José''
* 2012:
Lina Meruane (Chile) ''Sangre en el Ojo''
(translated by
Megan McDowell as ''Seeing Red'')
* 2011:
Almudena Grandes
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(Spain) ''Inés y la alegría''
* 2010:
Claudia Piñeiro
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(Argentina) ''Las grietas de Jara'' (translated by Miranda France as ''A Crack in the Wall'')
* 2009:
Cristina Rivera Garza (Mexico) ''La muerte me da''
* 2008:
Gioconda Belli (Nicaragua) ''El Infinito en la palma de la mano'' (translated by
Margaret Sayers Peden
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as ''Infinity in the Palm of Her Hand'')
* 2007:
Tununa Mercado ''Yo nunca te prometí la eternidad''
* 2006:
Claudia Amengual
Claudia Amengual Puceiro (born 7 January 1969, in Montevideo) is a Uruguayan writer and translator. She is a recipient of the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize.
Biography
She obtained her degrees in translation and literature at the University ...
(Uruguay) ''Desde las cenizas''
* 2005:
Paloma Villegas ''Agosto y fuga'' (August Escape)
* 2004:
Cristina Sánchez-Andrade ''Ya no pisa la tierra tu rey''
* 2003:
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 ...
''El rastro''
* 2002:
Ana Gloria Moya ''Cielo de tambores'' (Sky of Drums)
* 2001:
Cristina Rivera Garza ''Nadie me verá llorar''
* 1999:
Sylvia Iparraguirre ''La tierra del fuego''
* 1998:
Silvia Molina ''El amor que me juraste'' (translated by
David Unger as ''The Love You Promised Me'')
* 1997:
Laura Restrepo ''Dulce compañía'' (translated by
Dolores M. Koch as ''The Angel of Galilea'')
* 1996:
**
Elena Garro
Elena Garro (December 11, 1916 – August 22, 1998) was a Mexican author, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, short story writer, and novelist. She has been described as one of the pioneers and an early leading figure of the Magical Realism move ...
''Busca mi esquela'' (translated as ''Look for My Obituary'')
**
Alicia Yánez Cossío ''
El cristo feo'' (
ex-aequo
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)
* 1995:
Tatiana Lobo ''Asalto al paraíso'' (translated by Asa Zatz as ''Assault on Paradise'')
* 1994:
Marcela Serrano ''Nosotras que nos queremos tanto''
* 1993:
Angelina Muñiz-Huberman ''Dulcinea encantada''
See also
*
List of literary awards honoring women
References
External links
Premio de Literatura Sor Juana Inés de la Cruzat the
Guadalajara International Book Fair
The Guadalajara International Book Fair, better known as the FIL (from its Spanish name: ) is the largest book fair in the Americas, and second-largest book fair in the world after Frankfurt Book Fair, Frankfurt's. It is also considered the most i ...
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Mexican literary awards
Spanish-language literary awards
Literary awards honoring women
Awards established in 2004
2004 establishments in Mexico