Miguel de Cervantes Prize
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| Presented by | Ministry of Culture |
| Country | Spain |
| Reward | €125,000 |
| First awarded | 1976 |
The Miguel de Cervantes Prize (Spanish: Premio de Literatura en Lengua Castellana Miguel de Cervantes), established in 1976, is awarded annually to honour the lifetime achievement of an outstanding writer in the Spanish language. The prize is similar to the Booker Prize, with its candidates from Commonwealth countries, in that it rewards authors from any Spanish-speaking nation. Unlike the Booker Prize, it is awarded only once in recognition of the recipient's overall body of work and is therefore regarded as a sort of Spanish-language Nobel Prize in Literature. The award is named after Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote.
The candidates are proposed by the Association of Spanish Language Academies, and the prize is awarded by the Ministry of Culture of Spain. The winner receives a monetary award of 125,000 euros, it is one of the richest literary prizes in the world and one of the most prestigious in the Spanish language.[1]
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Winners
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Winners per country
 Spain |
19 |
 Argentina |
4 |
 Mexico |
4 |
 Chile |
3 |
 Cuba |
3 |
 Colombia |
1 |
 Paraguay |
1 |
 Peru |
1 |
 Uruguay |
1 |
| Total | 37 |
Similar prizes in other languages
- Camões Prize (for Portuguese-language literature)
- Newman Prize for Chinese Literature (for Chinese-language literature)
- Man Booker Prize (for English-language literature)
Notes and references
- ^ http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/103671/Cervantes-Prize
- ^ Ex-aequo award.
External links
- Miguel de Cervantes Prize at the Ministry of Culture
- Miguel de Cervantes Prize El poder de la palabra (Spanish)
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