HONOR

Founded in 1976 by the Spanish Ministry of Culture, the Cervantes Prize is the highest award given for contributions to Spanish literature. Those honored receive a prize of 90,000 euros. The award is named for Miguel de Cervantes.

1976	Jorge Guillén	Spain, b. 1893, d. 1984
1977	Alejo Carpentier	Cuba, b. 1904, d. 1980
1978	Dámaso Alonso	Spain, b. 1898, d. 1990
1979	Jorge Luis Borges	Argentina, b. 1899, d. 1986
1979	Gerardo Diego	Spain, b. 1896, d. 1987
1980	Juan Carlos Onetti	Uruguay, b. 1909, d. 1995
1981	Octavio Paz	Mexico, b. 1914, d. 1998
1982	Luis Rosales	Spain, b. 1910, d. 1992
1983	Rafael Alberti	Spain, b. 1902, d. 1999
1984	Ernesto Sábato	Argentina, b. 1911
1985	Gonzalo Torrente Ballester	Spain, b. 1910, d. 1999
1986	Antonio Buero Vallejo	Spain, b. 1916, d. 2000
1987	Carlos Fuentes	Mexico, b. 1928
1988	María Zambrano	Spain, b. 1904, d. 1991
1989	Augusto Roa Bastos	Paraguay, b. 1917
1990	Adolfo Bioy Casares	Argentina, b. 1914, d. 1999
1991	Francisco Ayala	Spain, b. 1906
1992	Dulce María Loynaz	Cuba, b. 1903, d. 1997
1993	Miguel Delibes	Spain, b. 1920, d. 2010
1994	Mario Vargas Llosa	Peru, b. 1936
1995	Camilo José Cela	Spain, b. 1916, d. 2002
1996	José García Nieto	Spain, b. 1914, d. 2001
1997	Guillermo Cabrera Infante	Cuba, b. 1929, d. 2005
1998	José Hierro	Spainn, b. 1922, d. 2002
1999	Jorge Edwards	Chile, b. 1931
2000	Francisco Umbral	Spain, b. 1935
2001	Alvaro Mutis	Colombia, b. 1923
2002	José Jiménez Lozano	Spain, b. 1930
2003	Gonzalo Rojas	Chile, b. 1917
2004	Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio	Spain, b. 1927

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