Spanish-Language Literary Awards For Adult and Children’s Books

-- Críticas, 5/15/2006

ADULT BOOK AWARDS (In chronological order)

Premio Nadal
Organizer: Ediciones Destino (Planeta)
Categories: Novel
Announcement Date: January
Periodicity: Annual
Past Winners: Lucía Extebarria (1998), Eduardo Lago (2006)

Casa de las Américas
Organizer: Casa de las Américas
Categories: Poetry, Short Story, and Essay on a historical or social topic
Announcement Date: January
Periodicity: Annual
Past Winners: Arturo Corcuera (2006)

Premio Xavier Villaurrutia
Organizer: Sociedad Alfonsina Internacional and Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (CONACULTA)
Categories: Fiction (Novel or Short Stories), Essay, Poetry, all of them edited and published in Mexico. Judged by past winners and aimed at promoting Mexican letters.
Announcement Date: February
Periodicity: Annual
Past Winners: Mario Bellatín (2001), Pedro Ángel Palou (2003)

Premio Biblioteca Breve
Organizer: Editorial Seix Barral (Planeta)
Category: Novel
Announcement Date: February
Periodicity: Annual
Past winners: Elvira Lindo (2005), Luisa Castro (2006)

Premio Emecé de Novela
Organizer: Emecé Editores (Planeta)
Categories: Fiction (Novel or Short Stories)
Announcement Date: Before March 31st
Periodicity: Annual

Premio Alfaguara de Novela
Organizer: Alfaguara (Santillana)
Category: Novel
Announcement Date: March
Periodicity: Annual
Past winners: Gabriela Montes and Ema Wolf (2005), Santiago Roncagliolo (2006)

Premio Primavera
Organizer: Espasa Calpe (Planeta)
Announcement Date: March
Periodicity: Annual
Past winners: José Ovejero (2005), Fernando Schwartz (2006)

Premio de Novela Fernando Lara
Organizer: Editorial Planeta
Category: Novel
Announcement date: Spring
Periodicity: Annual
Past winners: Mercedes Salisachs (2004), Antonio Gómez Rufo (2005)

Premio Internacional de Novela Rómulo Gallegos
Organizer: Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos Rómulo Gallegos
Categories: Novel
Announcement Date: August 2nd
Periodicity: Biennual
Past Winners: Fernando Vallejo (2003), Isaac Rosa (2005)

Premio Lengua de Trapo
Organizer: Editorial Lengua de Trapo
Categories: Novel
Announcement Date: September
Periodicity: Annual
Past Winners: Pablo Sánchez (2005)

Premio Planeta
Organizer: Editorial Planeta
Category: Novel
Announcement Date: October
Periodicity: Annual
Past winners: Lucía Etxebarria (2004), María de la Pau Janer (2005)

La Hispanoamericano de Novela La Otra Orilla
Organizer: Grupo Editorial Norma
Category: Novel
Announcement date: October
Periodicity: Annual
Past winners: Marco Schwartz (2005)

Premio Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Organizer: Feria International del Libro de Guadalajara (Guadalajara International Book Fair)
Categories: Fiction by Spanish-speaking women authors
Announcement Date: November
Periodicity: Annual
Past Winners: Laura Restrepo (1997), Cristina Rivera Garza (2001)

Premio Herralde de Novela
Organizer: Anagrama
Category: Novel
Announcement Date: November
Periodicity: Annual
Past winners: Juan Villoro (2004), Alonso Cueto (2005)

Premio Tusquets de Novela
Organizer: Tusquets Editores
Categories: Novel
Announcement Date: November/December, during the Feria International del Libro de Guadalajara
Periodicity: Annual
Past Winners: None

Premio Juan Rulfo de Novela Corta
Organizer: Radio Francia Internacional with Instituto Cervantes, Instituto de México, Casa de América Latina in Paris, and Unión Latina
Categories: Short Novel
Announcement Date: Mid-December
Periodicity: Annual
Past Winners: Ana Clavel (2005)

Premio Juan Rulfo de Cuento
Organizer: Radio Francia Internacional with Instituto Cervantes, Instituto de México, Casa de América Latina in Paris, and Unión Latina
Categories: Short Story
Announcement Date: Mid-December
Periodicity: Annual
Past Winners: Pedro Jaime de Isla Martínez (2005)

CHILDREN’S BOOK AWARDS

The Pura Belpré Award
Organizer: Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) and REFORMA
Category: Presented to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth.
Announcement date: ALA Midwinter Meeting
Periodicity: Biennial
Past winners: Viola Canales, Raúl Colón (2006)

Premio El Barco de Vapor
Organizer: Grupo SM
Category: Novel (40 pages or longer)
Announcement date: March
Periodicity: Annual
Past winners: Laura Gallego García

Concurso Album Ilustrado A la Orilla del Viento
Organizer: Fondo de Cultura Económica
Category: Illustration
Announcement date: July 31st
Periodicity: Annual

UNESCO Prize for Children's and Young People’s Literature in the Service of Tolerance
Organizer: UNESCO
Category: Novels, Collections of Short Stories, Picture Books
Periodicity: Biennial
Past winners: La composición by Antonio Skármeta (published by Ekaré in 2003)