MERCOSUR Konex Award winners
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This is the list of all the MERCOSURMercosurMercosur or Mercosul is an economic and political agreement among Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay. Founded in 1991 by the Treaty of Asunción, which was later amended and updated by the 1994 Treaty of Ouro Preto. Its purpose is to promote free trade and the fluid movement of goods, people,...
Konex Award winners.
2002 - Visual Arts - Luis CamnitzerLuis Camnitzer
Luis Camnitzer is a German-born Uruguayan artist and academic who resides in the United States. He is a conceptual artist who creates work in a variety of media—including installation, printmaking, drawing, and photography—that breaks down limitations and questions that define the center versus...
(Uruguay)
2002 - Visual Arts - Carlos Colombino (Paraguay)
2002 - Visual Arts - Eugenio Dittborn (Chile)
2002 - Visual Arts - Oscar Niemeyer
Oscar Niemeyer
Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho is a Brazilian architect specializing in international modern architecture...
(Brazil)
2002 - Visual Arts - Gastón Ugalde
Gastón Ugalde
Gastón Ugalde Latin American Artist recipient of the Konex Award in 2002 along with Oscar Niemeyer is called "the most important living Bolivian artist" by the Konex Foundation in Argentina and is also referred as the "Andean Warhol" by art critics...
(Bolivia)
2004 - Literature - Rubem Fonseca
Rubem Fonseca
Rubem Fonseca is a Brazilian writer.He was born in Juiz de Fora, in the state of Minas Gerais, but he has lived most of his life in Rio de Janeiro. In 1952, he started his career as a low-level cop and, later became a police commissioner, one of the highest ranks in the civil police of Brazil...
(Brazil)
2004 - Literature - Nicanor Parra
Nicanor Parra
Nicanor Parra Sandoval is a mathematician and poet born in San Fabián de Alico, Chile, who has been considered to be a popular poet in Chile with enormous influence and popularity in Latin America, and also considered one of the most important poets of the Spanish language literature...
(Chile)
2004 - Literature - Augusto Roa Bastos
Augusto Roa Bastos
Augusto Roa Bastos, was a noted Paraguayan novelist and short story writer, and one of the most important Latin American writers of the 20th century. As a teenager he fought in the Chaco War between Paraguay and Bolivia, and he later worked as a journalist, screenwriter and professor...
(Paraguay)
2004 - Literature - Néstor Taboada Terán (Bolivia)
2004 - Literature - Mario Vargas Llosa
Mario Vargas Llosa
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquis of Vargas Llosa is a Peruvian-Spanish writer, politician, journalist, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate. Vargas Llosa is one of Latin America's most significant novelists and essayists, and one of the leading authors of his generation...
(Perú)
2004 - Literature - Idea Vilariño (Uruguay)
2006 - Humanities - Helio Jaguaribe (Brazil)
2008 - Institutions-Communities-Companies - Fernando Henrique Cardoso
Fernando Henrique Cardoso
Fernando Henrique Cardoso – also known by his initials FHC – was the 34th President of the Federative Republic of Brazil for two terms from January 1, 1995 to December 31, 2002. He is an accomplished sociologist, professor and politician...
(Brazil)
2008 - Institutions-Communities-Companies - Ricardo Lagos
Ricardo Lagos
Ricardo Froilán Lagos Escobar is a lawyer, economist and social democrat politician, who served as president of Chile from 2000 to 2006. He won the 1999-2000 presidential election by a narrow margin in a runoff over Independent Democrat Union candidate Joaquín Lavín...
(Chile)
2008 - Institutions-Communities-Companies - Julio María Sanguinetti (Uruguay)
2010 - Deportes - Gustavo Kuerten
Gustavo Kuerten
Gustavo Kuerten is a retired former World No. 1 tennis player from Brazil. He won the French Open three times between 1997 and 2001, and was the Tennis Masters Cup champion in 2000...
(Brazil)
2011 - Entertainment - Estela Medina