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 literary prize

Prize

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 awarded annually by the publishing house Ediciones Destino, part of Planeta

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. It has been awarded every year on January 6 since 1944. The current monetary award stand at €18,000 for the winner and since 2010 there has been no runner-up http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/261/novelas/optan/Premio/Nadal/falla/noche/elpepucul/20100106elpepucul_1/Tes.

Premio Nadal winners

List of Premio Nadal winners since the award was established:

• 1944 Carmen Laforet
  Carmen Laforet
  Carmen Laforet was a Spanish author who wrote in the period after the Spanish Civil War...
  
   for Nada
• 1945 José Félix Tapia for La Luna ha entrado en casa
• 1946 José María Gironella
  José María Gironella
  José María Gironella Pous was a Catalan and Spanish author best known for his fictional work The Cypresses Believe in God published in Spain in 1953, and translated into English by Harriet De Onís in 1955...
  
   for Un hombre
• 1947 Miguel Delibes
  Miguel Delibes
  Miguel Delibes Setién was a Spanish novelist, journalist and newspaper editor. From 1975 until his death, he was a member of the Royal Spanish Academy, where he occupied chair "e". He studied commerce and law and began his career as a columnist and later journalist at the El Norte de Castilla...
  
   for La sombra del ciprés es alargada
• 1948 Sebastián Juan Arbó for Sobre las piedras grises
• 1949 José Suárez Carreño
  José Suárez Carreño
  José Suárez Carreño was a Spanish writer. He was born in Guadalupe, Mexico, but lived in Madrid from an early age.-Awards:He was awarded the Adonais Prize in 1945 for his book Edad del hombre , the Nadal Prize in 1949 for his book Las últimas horas and the Lope de Vega theatre prize for his drama...
  
   for Las últimas horas
• 1950 Elena Quiroga
  Elena Quiroga
  Elena Quiroga de la Válgoma , was a Spanish writer and winner of the Premio Nadal. She was born in Santander, Cantabria and grew up on her father's estate in Barco de Valdeorras, Ourense. Growing up in the region, she felt intimately linked to Galicia...
  
   for Viento del Norte
• 1951 Luis Romero
  Luis Romero
  Luis Alberto Romero is a former Uruguayan footballer currently played for clubs of Uruguay, Peru and Italy....
  
   for La noria
• 1952 Dolores Medio for Nosotros, los Rivero
• 1953 Lluïsa Forrelladfor Siempre en capilla
• 1954 Francisco José Alcántara for La muerte le sienta bien a Villalobos
• 1955 Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio
  Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio
  Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio is a Spanish writer. His father Rafael Sánchez Mazas, a minor writer himself, was a founder and leader of Falange....
  
    for El Jarama
• 1956 José Luis Martín Descalzo for La frontera de Dios
• 1957 Carmen Martín Gaite
  Carmen Martín Gaite
  Carmen Martín Gaite was an award winning Spanish author. She wrote in many genres, including novels, short stories, and essays...
  
   for Entre visillos
• 1958 José Vidal Cadellans for No era de los nuestros
• 1959 Ana María Matute
  Ana María Matute
  Ana María Matute is an internationally acclaimed Spanish author. She is one of the strongest voices from the posguerra, or period immediately following the Spanish Civil War...
  
   for Primera memoria
• 1960 Ramiro Pinilla for Ciegas hormigas
• 1961 Juan Antonio Payno for El curso
• 1962 José María Mendiola for Muerte por fusilamiento
• 1963 Manuel Mejía Vallejo
  Manuel Mejía Vallejo
  Manuel Mejía Vallejo, was a Colombian writer and journalist. The specialist Luís Carlos Molina says that Mejía represents the Andean aspect of the contemporary Colombian narrative, characterized by a world of symbols which are little by little being lost in the memory of the mountain.Doctor...
  
   for El día señalado
• 1964 Alfonso Martínez Garrido for El miedo y la esperanza
• 1965 Eduardo Caballero Calderón
  Eduardo Caballero Calderón
  Eduardo Caballero Calderón was a Colombian journalist and writer. As journalist, he worked to the main Colombian newspapers, such as El Tiempo and El Espectador. Also he was a diplomat from Colombia in Peru, Argentina, Spain and France...
  
   for El buen salvaje
• 1966 Vicente Soto for La zancada
• 1967 José María Sanjuán for Réquiem por todos nosotros
• 1968 Álvaro Cunqueiro
  Álvaro Cunqueiro
  Álvaro Cunqueiro Mora was an Galician writer. He is the author of many works in both Galician and Spanish, including Merlín e familia...
  
   for Un hombre que se parecía a Orestes
• 1969 Francisco García Pavón for Las hermanas coloradas
• 1970 Jesús Fernández Santos for Libro de las memorias de las cosas
• 1971 José María Requena for El cuajarón
• 1972 José María Carrascal for Groovy
• 1973 José Antonio García Blázquez for El rito
• 1974 Luis Gasulla for Culminación de Montoya
• 1975 Francisco Umbral
  Francisco Umbral
  Francisco Umbral was a Spanish journalist, novelist, biographer and essayist.-Style:...
  
   for Las ninfas
• 1976 Raúl Guerra Garrido for Lectura insólita de "El Capital"
• 1977 José Asenjo Sedano for Conversación sobre la guerra
• 1978 Germán Sánchez Espeso for Narciso
• 1979 Carlos Rojas
  Carlos Rojas
  Carlos Rodolfo Rojas Rojas is a Chilean football midfielder who played for Chile in the 1950 FIFA World Cup. He also played for Unión Española.-External links:*...
  
   for El ingenioso hidalgo y poeta Federico García Lorca asciende a los infiernos
• 1980 Juan Ramón Zaragoza for Concerto grosso
• 1981 Carmen Gómez Ojea for Cantiga de agüero
• 1982 Fernando Arrabal
  Fernando Arrabal
  Fernando Arrabal Terán is a Spanish playwright, screenwriter, film director, novelist and poet. He settled in France in 1955, he describes himself as “desterrado,” or “half-expatriate, half-exiled.”...
  
   for La torre herida por el rayo
• 1983 Salvador García Aguilar for Regocijo en el hombre
• 1984 José Luis de Tomás for La otra orilla de la droga
• 1985 Pau Faner for Flor de sal
• 1986 Manuel Vicent for Balada de Caín
• 1987 Juan José Saer
  Juan José Saer
  Juan José Saer was one of the most important Argentine novelists of the last fifty years.Born to Syrian immigrants in Serodino, a small town in the Santa Fe Province, he studied law and philosophy at the National University of the Littoral, where he taught History of Cinematography. Thanks to a...
  
   for La ocasión
• 1988 Juan Pedro Aparicio for Retratos de ambigú
• 1989 Not awarded
• 1990 Juan José Millás
  Juan José Millás
  Juan José Millás is a Spanish writer and winner of the 1990 Premio Nadal. He was born in Valencia and has spent most of his life in Madrid where he studied Philosophy and Literature in the Universidad Complutense.-Life:...
  
   for La soledad era esto
• 1991 Alfredo Conde for Los otros días
• 1992 Alejandro Gándara for Ciegas esperanzas
• 1993 Rafael Argullol
  Rafael Argullol
  Rafael Argullol i Murgadas is a Catalan Spanish writer, philosopher, poet, blogger and professor of aesthetics at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, where he also directs the Institut Universitari de Cultura...
  
   for La razón del mal
• 1994 Rosa Regàs
  Rosa Regàs
  Rosa Regàs is a Spanish writer and novelist.-Biography:Rosa Regàs was born in Barcelona in 1933. During the Spanish Civil War she was exiled to France, until it ended when she was 6 years old. She was educated at a religious boarding school in Barcelona...
  
   for Azul
• 1995 Ignacio Carrión for Cruzar el Danubio
• 1996 Pedro Maestre for Matando dinosaurios con tirachinas
• 1997 Carlos Cañeque for Quién
• 1998 Lucía Etxebarria
  Lucía Etxebarría
  Lucía Etxebarría de Asteinza is a Spanish writer. She was born in Valencia in 1966, of Basque parents as her name suggests, the youngest of seven children. The Basque surname Etxebarria has no diacritics, although its Spanish version Echevarría has...
  
   for Beatriz y los cuerpos celestes
• 1999 Gustavo Martín Garzo for Las historias de Marta y Fernando
• 2000 Lorenzo Silva
  Lorenzo Silva
  Lorenzo Manuel Silva Amador is a Spanish award-winning writer.After earning a law degree at the Universidad Complutense of Madrid, he worked as a lawyer from 1992 to 2002....
  
   for El alquimista impaciente
• 2001 Fernando Marías for El niño de los coroneles
• 2002 Ángela Vallvey
  Ángela Vallvey
  Ángela Vallvey Arévalo is a Spanish writer.She studied Modern History at University of Granada, and she later took some courses of anthropology and philosophy....
  
   for Los estados carenciales
• 2003 Andrés Trapiello for Los amigos del crimen perfecto
• 2004 Antonio Soler
  Antonio Soler
  Antonio Francisco Javier José Soler Ramos, usually known as Padre Antonio Soler, known in Catalan as Antoni Soler i Ramos was a Spanish Catalan composer whose works span the late Baroque and early Classical music eras...
  
   for El camino de los ingleses
• 2005 Pedro Zarraluki for Un encargo difícil
• 2006 Eduardo Lago
  Eduardo Lago
  Eduardo Lago is a Spanish novelist, translator, and literary critic, born in Madrid and currently living in Manhattan, New York, United States. In 2002, he was the recipient of the Bartolomé March Award for Excellence in Literary Criticism for his critical comparison of three Spanish translations...
  
   for Llámame Brooklyn
• 2007 Felipe Benítez Reyes for Mercado de espejismos
• 2008 Francisco Casavella for Lo que sé de los vampiros
• 2009 Maruja Torres
  Maruja Torres
  Maria Dolors Torres Manzanera known as Maruja Torres is a Spanish writer and journalist.Her parents were from Murcia and she was born in El Raval neighbourhood. She started as a journalist thanks to Carmen Kurtz when she was 21 years old...
  
   for Esperadme en el cielo
• 2010 Clara Sanchez
  Clara Sanchez (writer)
  Clara Sánchez is a Spanish novelist. Born in Guadalajara, her childhood was marked by frequent travel owing to her father's career. She earned her degree in Spanish philology from Complutense University of Madrid, and later made her home in that city...
  
   for Lo que esconde tu nombre
• 2011 Alicia Giménez Bartlett for Donde nadie te encuentre

Premio Nadal runners-up

List of runners-up (finalistas) of Premio Nadal since the award was instituted:

• 1944 José María Álvarez Blázquez for En el pueblo hay caras nuevas
• 1945 Francisco García Pavón for Cerca de Oviedo
• 1946 Eulalia Galvarriato for Cinco sombras and Luis Manteiga for Un hombre à la deriva
• 1947 Ana María Matute for Los Abel, Rosa María Cajal for Juan Risco and Juan Manuel Pombo Angulo for Hospital General
• 1948 Manuel Mur Oti for Destino negro and Antonio Rodríguez Huescar for Vida con una diosa
• 1949 Carlos de Santiago for El huerto de Pisadiel
• 1950 Francisco Montero Galvache for El mar está solo
• 1951 Tomás Salvador for Historias de Valcanillo, José María Jové for Mientras llueve en la tierra and José Antonio Giménez Arnau for De pantalón largo
• 1952 Severiano Fernández Nicolás for La ciudad sin horizonte and Vicente Risco for La puerta de paja
• 1953 Alejandro Núñez Alonso for La gota de mercurio
• 1954 Ángel Oliver for Días turbulentos
• 1955 Héctor Vázquez Azpiri for Víbora
• 1956 Jesús López Pacheco for Central eléctrica
• 1957 Lauro Olmo for Ayer, 27 de octubre
• 1958 Claudio Bassols for El carnaval de los gigantes
• 1959 Armando López Salinas for La mina
• 1960 Gonzalo Torrente Malvido for Hombres varados
• 1961 Pedro Antoñana for La cuerda rota
• 1962 Manuel Barrios for El crimen
• 1963 Mariano Viguera for Coral
• 1964 Manuel Barrios for La espuela
• 1965 Juan Farias for Los buscadores de agua
• 1966 Carmelo M. Lozano for Gambito de alfil de rey
• 1967 Francisco García Pavón for El reinado de Witiza
• 1968 Eduardo García for Sede vacante
• 1969 Luis Ricardo Alonso for El candidato
• 1970 Gabriel García-Badell for De las Armas de Montemolín
• 1971 Gustavo Álvarez de Gardeazábal for Dabeiba
• 1972 Gabriel García-Badell for Las cartas cayeron boca abajo and Bernardo Víctor Carande for Suroeste
• 1973 Gabriel García-Badell for Funeral por Francia y Aquilino Duque for El mono azul
• 1974 Guillermo Ariel Ramón Carrizo for Crónica sin héroes
• 1975 Manuel Villar Raso for Mar ligeramente Sur
• 1976 Emilio Mansera Conde for La crisopa
• 1977 Gabriel García-Badell for La zarabanda
• 1978 Manuel Vicent for El anarquista coronado con adelfas and Rocío Vélez de Piedrahita for Terrateniente
• 1979 Manuel Vicent for Ángeles o neófitos and Gabriel García-Badell for Nuevo auto de fe
• 1980 Ramón Eiroa for Notas para la aclaración de un suicidio and Jorge González Aranguren for En otros parques donde estar ardiendo
• 1981 Alfonso Zapater for El accidente and Juan Luis González Ripoll for El dandy del lunar
• 1982 José Luis Aguirre for La excursión
• 1983 José Avello Flórez for La subversión de Beti García
• 1984 Telmo Herrera for Papá murió hoy
• 1985 Vicente Sánchez Pinto for Los desiertos del amor
• 1986 Horacio Vázquez-Rial for Historia del Triste and Rafael Humberto Moreno-Durán for Los felinos del Canciller
• 1987 José Ferrater Mora for El juego de la verdad
• 1988 Jesús Carazo for Los límites del paraíso
• 1989 Not awarded
• 1990 Pedro Crespo García for El cuaderno de Forster
• 1991 Mariano Arias for El silencio de las palabras
• 1992 Jesús Díaz for Las palabras perdidas
• 1993 Jorge Ordaz for La perla del Oriente
• 1994 José Ángel Mañas for Historias del Kronen
• 1995 Félix Bayón for Adosados
• 1996 Juana Salabert for Arde lo que será
• 1997 Lorenzo Silva for La flaqueza del bolchevique
• 1998 Ignacio García-Valiño for La caricia del escorpión
• 1999 Lilian Neuman for Levantar ciudades
• 2000 José Carlos Somoza for Dafne desvanecida
• 2001 Lola Beccaria for La luna en Jorge
• 2002 José Luis de Juan for Kaleidoscopio
• 2003 David Torres for El gran silencio
• 2004 Javier Puebla for Sonríe Delgado
• 2005 Nicolás Casariego for Cazadores de luz
• 2006 Marta Sanz for Susana y los viejos
• 2007 Carmen Amoraga for Algo tan parecido al amor
• 2008 Eva Díaz Pérez for El Club de la Memoria
• 2009 Rubén Abella for El libro del amor esquivo