Chilean National Award

The President of Chile Sebastián Piñera, together with the Minister of Education Joaquín Lavín, delivered the 2010 National Awards.
From left to right: Carmen Luisa Letelier, Bernardino Bravo, Isabel Allende, Mary Therese Kalin, Juan Carlos Castilla.

Chilean National Awards is the collective name given to the following awards granted by the Government of Chile through the Ministry of Education and, since 2003, by the National Council of Culture and the arts. They are delivered by the President of the Republic and are granted in an official ceremony held at the Palacio de La Moneda.

Through these awards, we seek to recognize the work of Chileans who, due to their excellence, creativity, transcendent contribution to national culture and the development of said fields and areas of knowledge and the arts, become creditors of these awards.

The Chilean National Award is made up of the following recognitions:

• National Literature Prize, since 1942.
• National Journalism Award, since 1954.
• National History Award, since 1974.
• National Prize for Education Sciences, since 1981.
• National Prize for Plastic Arts, since 1992.
• National Prize for Musical Arts, since 1992.
• National Representation and Audiovisual Arts Award, since 1992.
• National Prize for Applied and Technological Sciences, since 1992.
• National Prize for Exact Sciences, since 1992.
• National Natural Science Award, since 1992.
• National Prize for Humanities and Social Sciences, since 1992.
• National Telecommunication Award, since 2015.

Previously also awarded:

• National Art Prize, between 1944 and 1991.
• National Science Prize, 1969-1991.