Premio Eugenio Espejo

The Premio Nacional Eugenio Espejo ("Eugenio Espejo National Award") is the national prize of the nation of Ecuador. Decrees 677 and 699 (of August 1975 and September 1997, respectively) established the prize, which is conferred by the President of Ecuador. The Award is bestowed every other year. Finalists for receiving the award are put on a short list by the National Council of Culture, and grouped into five categories:^[1]

• Cultural Promotion
• Arts
• Literature
• Science
• Public or Private Institutions.

The recipients are then selected from that list by the head of state, who awards them a sum of money, a diploma, a medal and lifetime stipend.

Recipients

From 1975 to 2018 there have been 98 recipients of the prize. Not all categories have been awarded every year resulting in a different number of recipients for each category. 26 for cultural promotion, 19 for arts, 24 for literature, 23 for science, 9 for public or private institutions.

Year	Recipient	Rationale	Ref
1975	Benjamín Carrión	Culture	[2]
1977	Jorge Carrera Andrade	Culture	[2]
1979	Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco	Literature	[2]
1983	Raúl Andrade Moscoso	Culture	[2]
1984	Fray José María Vargas O.P.	Culture	[2]
1986	Leslie Wright Durán Ballén	Culture	[2]
1986	Alejandro Carrión Aguirre	Literature	[2]
1986	Eduardo Kingman Riofrío	Art	[2]
1986	Plutarco Naranjo Vargas	Science	[2]
1987	Antonio Parra Velasco	Culture	[2]
1987	José Rumazo González	Literature	[2]
1987	Galo Galecio	Art	[2]
1987	Miguel Salvador	Science	[2]
1988	Edmundo Ribadeneira Meneses	Culture	[2]
1988	Gabriel Cevallos García	Literature	[2]
1988	Enrique Tábara	Art	[2]
1988	Augusto Bonilla Barco	Science	[2]
1989	Jorge Pérez Concha	Culture	[2]
1989	Jorge Enrique Adoum	Literature	[2]
1989	Araceli Gilbert de Blomberg	Art	[2]
1989	Miguel Acosta Solís	Science	[2]
1991	Hernán Crespo Toral	Culture	[2]
1991	Pedro Jorge Vera	Literature	[2]
1991	Oswaldo Guayasamín	Art	[2]
1991	Agustín Cueva	Science	[2]
1993	Gerardo Guevara Viteri	Culture	[2]
1993	Nelson Estupiñán Bass	Literature	[2]
1993	Alfredo Palacio Moreno	Art	[2]
1993	José Varea Terán	Science	[2]
1995	Jorge Salvador Lara	Culture	[2]
1995	Adalberto Ortiz	Literature	[2]
1995	Luis A. Romo Saltos	Science	[2]
1997	Nicolás Kingman Riofrío	Culture	[2]
1997	Ángel Felicísimo Rojas	Literature	[2]
1997	Oswaldo Viteri Paredes	Art	[2]
1997	Alfonso Rumazo González	Science	[2]
1999	Yela Loffredo de Klein	Culture	[2]
1999	Efraín Jara Idrovo	Literature	[2]
1999	Oswaldo Muñoz Mariño	Art	[2]
1999	Juan Larrea Holguín	Science	[2]
2001	Filoteo Samaniego Salazar	Culture	[2]
2001	José Martínez Queirolo	Literature	[2]
2001	Jorge Swett	Art	[2]
2001	Rodrigo Fierro Benítez	Science	[2]
2001	Parque Histórico de Guayaquil	Public or Private Institution	[2]
2003	Tránsito Amaguaña	Culture	[2]
2003	Galo René Pérez	Literature	[2]
2003	Leonardo Tejada	Art	[2]
2003	Jorge Marcos Pino	Science	[2]
2003	Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana	Public or Private Institution	[2]
2005	Luis Enrique Fierro	Culture	[2]
2005	Rodolfo Pérez Pimentel	Literature	[2]
2005	Theo Constanté	Art	[2]
2005	Rodrigo Cabezas Naranjo	Science	[2]
2005	Academia Ecuatoriana de la Lengua	Public or Private Institution	[2]
2006	Edgar Palacios	Culture	[2]
2006	Miguel Donoso Pareja	Literature	[2]
2006	Diego Luzuriaga	Art	[2]
2006	Ramón Lazo	Science	[2]
2006	Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional	Public or Private Institution	[2]
2007	Jaime Galarza Zavala	Culture	[2]
2007	Carlos Eduardo Jaramillo Castillo	Literature	[2]
2007	Aníbal Villacís	Art	[2]
2007	Frank Weilbauer	Science	[2]
2007	Grupo Folclórico "Tierra Caliente" de Petita Palma	Public or Private Institution	[2]
2008	Rodrigo Pallares	Culture	[2]
2008	Alicia Yánez Cossío	Literature	[2]
2008	Carlos Rubira Infante	Art	[2]
2008	Eduardo Villacís	Science	[2]
2008	Editorial "Abya Yala"	Public or Private Institution	[2]
1995 *	Enrique Gil Calderón. Rejected in 1995 from President Sixto Duran Ballen, but accepted in 2008 from President Rafael Correa	Art	[2]
2009	Horacio Hidrovo Peñaherrera	Culture	[2]
2009	Euler Granda	Literature	[2]
2009	Estuardo Maldonado	Art	[2]
2009	Magner Turner Carrión	Science	[2]
2009	Academia Nacional de Historia	Public or Private Institution	[2]
2010	Jorge Núñez Sánchez	Culture	[2]
2010	Julio Pazos Barrera	Literature	[2]
2010	Esperanza Cruz Hidalgo	Art	[2]
2010	Claudio Cañizares Proaño	Science	[2]
2010	Ballet Folclórico Nacional "Jacchigua"	Public or Private Institution	[2]
2011	Guillermo Ayoví Erazo (Papá Roncón)	Culture	[2]
2011	Rafael Díaz Ycaza	Literature	[2]
2011	Luigi Stornaiolo Pimentel	Art	[2]
2011	José Amén-Palma	Science	[2]
2011	Fundación Ecuatoriana de Olimpiadas Especiales	Public or Private Institution	[2]
2012	Abdón Ubidia	Literature	[2]
2012	Luis Silva Parra	Art	[2]
2012	Eugenia María del Pino Veintimilla	Science	[2]
2015	Pilar Bustos	Culture	[3]
2015	Fernando Tinajero	Literature	[3]
2015	Luis Cumbal	Science	[3]
2016	Beatriz Parra	Culture	[4]
2016	Jorge Davila	Literature	[4]
2016	Manuel Cruz Padilla	Science	[4]
2018	Fernando Cazón Vera	Literature	[5]
2018	Enrique Males	Culture	[5]
2018	Marcelo Cruz	Science	[5]
2020	Juan Valdano Morejón	Literature	[6]
2020	Álvaro Manzano Montero	Culture	[6]
2020	Katya Susana Romoleroux	Science	[6]
2022	Patricia González	Culture	[7]
2022	Javier Vásconez	Literature	[7]
2022	Segundo Moreno Yánez	Science	[7]