Carlos Fuentes Prize

Carlos Fuentes International Prize for Literary Creation in the Spanish Language (Spanish: Premio Internacional Carlos Fuentes a la Creación Literaria en el Idioma Español) is a literary award established in 2012 by the Mexican government in honor of Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes.^[1] It is awarded every year on November 11, the birthday of Fuentes. Originally carrying a remuneration of US$250,000 when launched, the prize was halved to US$125,000 in 2019, which continues to place it among the richest literary prizes in the world.^[2][3]

The jury is composed of seven people including a member of Spain’s Royal Academy of the Spanish Language, another from the Mexican Spanish-language academy, one more from another academy in Latin America or the Philippines, and four additional academic or literary figures from Mexico.^[4]

Recipients

Year	Author	Nationality	Ref(s)
2012	Mario Vargas Llosa	Peru Spain	[5]
2014	Sergio Ramírez	Nicaragua	[6]
2016	Eduardo Lizalde	Mexico	[7]
2018	Luis Goytisolo	Spain	[8]
2019	Luisa Valenzuela	Argentina	[9]
2020	Diamela Eltit	Chile	[10]
2022	Margo Glantz	Mexico	[11][12]
2023	Elena Poniatowska	Mexico	[13][14]
2024	Luis García Montero	Spain	[15]
2025	Gioconda Belli	Nicaragua	[16]