House of the Americas Award

The Casa de las Américas Prize has been awarded annually by the Casa de las Américas in Havana (Cuba) since 1960. Originally called the Hispano-American Literary Contest (1960), it became the Latin American Literary Contest in 1964, and finally, in 1965, it acquired its current name.

Since 1960, the main award categories are poetry, short stories, novels, theater and essays. Subsequently, testimony (1970), literature for children and young people (1975), English-language Caribbean literature (1975), French-speaking Caribbean literature (1979), Brazilian literature (1980) and indigenous literature (1994) were added. Prizes in all categories are not necessarily awarded every year, and sometimes they are deserted.

Additionally, since the year 2000 three honorary awards have been given:

• José María Arguedas Narrativa Award
• José Lezama Lima Poetry Prize
• Ezequiel Martínez Estrada Estrada Essay Award

Awarded since 2000

For previous winners, See Annex: Winners of the Casa de las Américas Award 1960-1999

2000

• Miguel Ángel López Hernández: Meetings on the paths of Abya Yala (peace, ColombiaColombia)
• Daniel Chavarría: The red in the parrot pen (novela, Uruguay Uruguay)
• Celina Manzoni: A Cuban dilemma. Nationalism and avant-garde (meaning, Argentina)
• Ernest Pépin: The red screen (Caribbean literature in French and Creole, novelty, Guadalupe)
• Raúl Hernández Novás: Amnios (Poesía José Lezama Lima Award, CubaCuba)
• Sergio Ramírez: Margarita, the sea is beautiful (Joseph Mary Arguedas Prize, NicaraguaNicaragua)
• Beatriz Sarlo: The cultural machine. Teachers, translators and avant-garde (Ezequiel Martínez Estrada essay award, Argentina)

2001

Not awarded in poetry

• Leonardo Peña Calderón: It is always possible to see them by passing (novela, ColombiaColombia)
  • Jorge Majfud The Queen of America (Mention novel, Uruguay Uruguay)
• Dante Medina: He sees you, my love, T.V. (note, Mexico Mexico)
• Luis Fernando Yesterdaybe: The United States and Latin America, the construction of hegemony (I think, BrazilBrazil)
• Walter Acosta: Scorpion and weasel (teatro, Uruguay Uruguay)
• Walter Galvani: The captain ship. Pedro Alvarez Cabral: how and with whom we started (Brazilian literature; novel biography, BrazilBrazil)
  • Luiz Ruffato: Survivors (Mention Brazilian literature; story, BrazilBrazil)

2002

• Luis Manuel Pérez Boitel: We still belong in the fall (peace, CubaCuba)
• Rafael Pinedo: Plop (novela, Argentina)
• Álvaro Salvador Jofre: The impure love of cities (Notes about Modernist Literature and Urban Space) (I think, SpainSpain)
• Carlos Marianidis: Nothing stops the swallows. (literature for children and young people, Argentina, novel)
• Oonya Kempadoo: Background sea (Caribbean literature in English and Creole, GuyanaGuyana, novel)
• José Watanabe: The guardian of the ice (Poesía José Lezama Lima Award, Peru Peru
• Miguel Bonasso: Diary of a clandestine (Joseph Mary Arguedas Prize, Argentina)
• Julio García Espinosa: A long road to light (Ezequiel Martínez Estrada essay award, CubaCuba)

2003

There was no poetry contest

• Paola Kaufmann: The sister (novela, Argentina)
• María del Carmen Barcia: The other family: relatives, networks and descendants of slaves in Cuba (assaying) CubaCuba)
• José Alejandro Castaño Hoyos: The island of Morgan (Testimony, ColombiaColombia)
• Rodolfo Santana: Angel lost in the hostile city (teatro, Venezuela Venezuela)
• João Almino: The five seasons of love (Brazilian literature, novel, BrazilBrazil)
• Juan Gelman: Pess all (Poesía José Lezama Lima Award, Argentina)
• Antonio Skármeta: The trombone girl (Joseph Mary Arguedas Prize, ChileChile)
• William Ospina: New centres in the field (Ezequiel Martínez Estrada Essay Award; ColombiaColombia)

2004

There was no novel contest

• Luis Lorente: This afternoon coming in the night (peace, CubaCuba)
• Pablo Ramos (Pablo Hernán Petitto): When the worst happened (note, Argentina)
• José Murilo de Carvalho: Citizenship in Brazil. The long way (Brazilian literature, historical-social essay, BrazilBrazil)
  • Júnia Ferreira Furtado: Girl da Silva and or hire two diamonds - O outro lado do mito (Mention Brazilian literature, testimony, BrazilBrazil)
• Georges Mauvois: Ovando (read three pieces: Ovando or the magician of Santo Domingo, Jazz and What a mess!Caribbean literature in French and Creole; Martinique)
  • Camille Montoussamy: Eclats d'Inde (Mention of Caribbean literature in French and Creole, testimony; Martinique)
  • Claude Ribbe: L ́Expedition (Mention of Caribbean literature in French and Creole, novel, Guadalupe)
• Carmiña Navia Velasco: War and peace in Colombia, women's eyes (Extraordinary Testing Award for Women, ColombiaColombia)
• Juan Bañuelos: Weed step. Poems about Chiapas (Poesía José Lezama Lima Award, Mexico Mexico)
• Anacristina Rossi: Lemon Blues (Joseph Mary Arguedas Prize, Costa RicaCosta Rica)
• Atilio Borón: Empire and imperialism. Critical reading of a book by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri (Ezequiel Martínez Estrada Essay Award; Argentina)

2005

There was no poetry contest

• Marilyn Bobes: Winter fever (novela, CubaCuba)
  • Claudio Ingratta: Yellow Editions of the Heart (Special novel, Argentina)
• Carlos A. Jáuregui: Canibalia. Cannibalism, calibanism, cultural anthropofagia and consumption in Latin America (artistic-literary message, ColombiaColombia)
• Victor Winer: Flight postcard (teatro, Argentina)
  • Kevin Nelson Valente: Areas (Mention theatre, Argentina)
• Teresa Cárdenas Angulo: Old dog (literature for children and young people, novel, CubaCuba)
  • Luis Caissés Sánchez: Old and old stories (First Literature Mention for Children and Young People, CubaCuba)
  • Félix Guerra Pulido: The guest is me. (Mention literature for children and young people, poetry, CubaCuba)
  • Ariel James Figarola: The color of the Yagruma (Mention literature for children and young people, poetry, CubaCuba)
• Alberto Mussa: O enigma de Qaf (Brazilian literature, novel, BrazilBrazil)
  • Iacyr Anderson Freitas: Trinca two brought (Mention Brazilian literature, BrazilBrazil)
• Idea Vilariño: In the most implacable of the night (Poesía José Lezama Lima Award, Uruguay Uruguay)
• Rubem Fonseca: Little creatures (Joseph Mary Arguedas Prize, story, BrazilBrazil)
• Luis Britto García: Investigation of media over suspicion (Ezequiel Martínez Estrada essay award, Venezuela Venezuela)

2006

There was no novel contest

• Arturo Corcuera: Aboard the ark (peace, Peru Peru
  • Clemente Riedemann: The coronation of Enrique Brouwer (Mention poetry, ChileChile)
• Angel Santiesteban Prats: Blessed are those who cry (note, CubaCuba)
  • Rodrigo Parra Sandoval: Museum of the useless (Mention story, ColombiaColombia)
  • Ana Quiroga: Short deferral and other stories (Mention story, Argentina)
• Abel Sierra Madero: On the other side of the mirror. Sexuality in the Construction of the Cuban Nation (historic-social message, CubaCuba)
  • Araceli Tinajero: Reading on tabaqueria. History of a Cuban tradition (Mention historical-social essay, CubaCuba)
• Ricardo Rezende Figueira: Pisando fora da propria sombra. To escravidão per divida no Brasil contemporâneo /Stepping out of his own shadow/ (Brazilian literature, historical-social essay, BrazilBrazil)
  • Marlini Fantini: Guimarães Rosa. Fronteiras, Margens, Passagens (Mention Brazilian literature, BrazilBrazil)
    • Flávio dos Santos Gomes: Hidra and Pântanos. Mocambos, Quilombos and Communities of Fugitives non-Brazil (Seculos XVII-XIX) (Mention Brazilian literature, BrazilBrazil)
• Mark McWatt: Suspended Sentences /Conditional sentences/ (Caribbean literature in English or Creole, GuyanaGuyana)
  • Olive Senior: Over the Roofs of the World (Mention of Caribbean literature in English or Creole, Jamaica)
• Raúl Zurita: INRI (Poesía José Lezama Lima Award, ChileChile)
• Marcio Veloz Maggiolo: The soldier fly (Joseph Mary Arguedas Prize, Dominican Republic)
• Boaventura de Sousa Santos: The university in the 21st century. For a democratic and emancipatory reform of the university (Ezequiel Martínez Estrada essay award, Portugal)

2007

There was no poetry contest

• Susana Silvestre: A thousand and a (novela, Argentina)
  • Ricardo Moura: Let the dead come in person (Mention novel, Argentina)
  • Fernando Jerez: Last hope (Mention novel, ChileChile)
  • Lourdes González Herrero: The Amanuense (Mention novel, CubaCuba)
• Alberto Abreu Arcia: Writing games or the (re)writing of History (experiment of artistic-literary theme, CubaCuba)
  • Oscar Rivera-Rodas: The cosmopolitanism in Hispanic American lyrics (Mention essay of art-literary theme, BoliviaBolivia
  • Julieta Leo Almaguer: The sacred letters of Paradiso. A study on the hermeticism of José Lezama Lima (Mention essay of art-literary theme, Mexico Mexico)
• Rafael Spregelburd: Heptalogy of Hieronymus Bosch: 6. Paranoia (teatro, Argentina)
• Edda Fabbri: Oblivion (Testimony, Uruguay Uruguay)
• Ana Maria Gonçalves: Um defeito de cor (Brazilian literature, novel, BrazilBrazil)
• Juan Manuel Roca: Sing away. Personal anthology (Poesía José Lezama Lima Award, ColombiaColombia)
• Abelardo Castillo: The mirror that trembles (Joseph Mary Arguedas Prize, Argentina)
• Maria Lourdes Cortés: The screen is broken. Hundred Years of Film in Central America (Ezequiel Martínez Estrada Essay Award; Costa RicaCosta Rica)

2008

There was no novel contest

• Laura Yasán: The Marilyn key (peace, Argentina)
  • Nelson Simon: In vitro (First mention poetry, CubaCuba)
  • Christian Birds: All the bodies is me. (Mention poetry, EcuadorEcuador)
  • Juan Cameron: Texts of barbarism (Mention poetry, ChileChile)
  • Alexis Díaz Pimienta: Oxygen dealers (Mention poetry, CubaCuba)
  • Elena Cabrejas: Academias de idiomas en Buenos Aires (Mention poetry, Argentina)
• Samanta Schweblin: The fury of the plagues (note, Argentina)
• Hugo Niño: The ethnotext: the voices of amazement (meaning of historical-social theme, ColombiaColombia)
• Juan A. Hernández: Towards a story of the impossible. The Haitian Revolution and the “book of paintings” by José Antonio Aponte (Special message of historical-social theme, Venezuela Venezuela)
• Maria Candida Ferreira de Almeida: Reading in colors. Racialized Readings of Hispanic American Literature (Mention essay of historical-social theme, BrazilBrazil)
• Beatriz Carolina Peña Núñez: Pictures of the New World in the Travel Relationship (1599 – 1605) by Fray Diego de Ocaña (Mention essay of historical-social theme, Venezuela Venezuela)
• Carlos Walter Porto-Gonçalves: A globalização da natureza e a natureza da globalização (Brazilian literature, BrazilBrazil)
  • José Castello: To poltrone literature. Jornalismo literrário en tempos instáveis (Mention Brazilian literature, BrazilBrazil)
  • Wanderley Guilherme dos Santos: Or ex-leviatã brasileiro. Do vote dispersed too clientelism concentrated (Mention Brazilian literature, BrazilBrazil)
• Louis-Philippe Dalembert: Les dieux voyagent la nuit (Caribbean literature in English or Creole; novel, HaitiHaiti)
  • Jean-Claude Fignolé: Une heure pour l’eternité (Mention of honour Caribbean literature in English or Creole; novel, HaitiHaiti)
  • Emmelie Prophète: He testament des solitudes (Mention of Caribbean literature in English or Creole; stories, HaitiHaiti)
  • Max Jeanne: ''Brisants (Mention of honour Caribbean literature in English or Creole; novel, Guadalupe)
  • Joël des Rosiers: Caïques (Mention of honour Caribbean literature in English or Creole; poems, HaitiHaiti)
• Oscar Hahn: In an eye open and close (Poesía José Lezama Lima Award, ChileChile)
• David Tuscany: The illuminated army (Joseph Mary Arguedas Prize, Mexico Mexico)
• Héctor Díaz Polanco: The praise of diversity. Globalization, multiculturalism and ethnophagia (Ezequiel Martínez Estrada essay award, Dominican RepublicDominican Republic)

2009

There was no poetry contest

• Claudio Ferrufino-Coqueugniot: Voluntary exile (novela, BoliviaBolivia
  • Enrique Ferrari: What wasn't (Mention novel, Argentina)
  • Fernanda García Curten: The replacement (Mention novel, Argentina)
• Eduardo Rosenzvaig: Tomorrow is far (green memories of the rabid years) (Testimony, Argentina)
  • Patricia Miriam Borensztejn: Some memory poetry needs to be known. Testimony of an Argentine woman (Textian message, Argentina)
• Yoli Trust: The fiancée of the mountain lord or the maiden of the Huillallaco (literature for children and young people, Argentina)
  • Ricardo Chávez Castañeda: The maze of nightmares (First Literature Mention for Children and Young People, Mexico Mexico)
  • Carla Dulfano: Teacher room (Mention of literature for children and young people, Argentina)
  • Rodolfo Dada: The sea of the jungle (Mention of literature for children and young people, Costa RicaCosta Rica)
• Lêdo Ivo: Réquiem (Brazilian literature, BrazilBrazil)
  • Maria Esther Maciel: Or two nomes. (Mention Brazilian literature; novel, BrazilBrazil)
  • Menalton Braff: A muralha de Adriano (Mención literatura brazilian; novel, BrazilBrazil)
• Juan Flores: Bugalú and other stews: essays on Latin cultures in the United States (Extraordinary Award for Latin American Studies in the United States, United States of America
• Carlos Germán Belli: The alternating passage of the fairies (Poesy Prize José Lezama Lima, Peru Peru
• Roberto Burgos Cantor: The ceiba of memory (Joseph Mary Arguedas Prize, ColombiaColombia)
• Red lord: Globalization and national and postnational identities... what are we talking about? (Ezequiel Martínez Estrada Essay Award; ChileChile)

2010

There was no novel contest

• Bruno Di Benedetto: Chronicles of doubtful deaths (peace, Argentina)
  • Guillermo Rivera: The new epopeyas (Mention poetry, ChileChile)
  • Javier Alvarado: Native letter to the country of the mad (Poet in Scotland) (Mention poetry, Panama Panama)
  • Manuel García Verdecia: Antiphony of the islands (Pattal Symphony) (Mention poetry, CubaCuba)
• Jorgelina Cerritos: To the other side of the sea (teater, El Salvador, El SalvadorEl Salvador)
  • Sergio Blanco: Barbarie (Mention theatre, Uruguay Uruguay)
  • Cheddy Mendizábal Alvarez: The two sides of the coin (Mention theatre, CubaCuba)
• Jennifer Rahim: Approaching Sabbaths (Caribbean literature in English or Creole; poetry, Trinidad and Tobago, Trinidad and TobagoTrinidad and Tobago)
  • Opal Palmer Adisa: I name me (Holy reference in Caribbean literature in English or Creole, Jamaica)
• Nélida Piñón: Homer apprentice (Brazilian literature, BrazilBrazil)
  • Luiz Cláudio Cunha: Operação Condor. O Seqüestro dos Uruguaios (Mention Brazilian literature, BrazilBrazil)
  • Leandro Konder: Memories of a Communist Intellectual (Mention Brazilian literature, BrazilBrazil)
  • Maria Isabel Brunacci: Graciliano Ramos: um writer personagem (Mention Brazilian literature, BrazilBrazil)
• Sergio Guerra Vilaboy: Play with fire. Social War and Utopia in the Independence of Latin America (Special Bicentennial Award for Hispanic Emancipation, CubaCuba)
• Manuel Orestes Nieto: The crystal between the light (Poesía José Lezama Lima Award, Panama Panama)
• Francisco Proaño Arandi: Treaty of clandestine love (Joseph Mary Arguedas Prize, EcuadorEcuador)
• Adriana Rodríguez Persico: Age stories: a cartography of Latin America (1880-1920) (Ezequiel Martínez Estrada Essay Award; Argentina)

2011

There was no poetry contest

• Gabriel Santander Botello: The Revenge of the Chachas (novela, Mexico Mexico)
  • Rodrigo Parra Sandoval: Pharaoh Angola (Mention novel, ColombiaColombia)
  • Geovannys Manso Sendán: The sleepy children of the abyss (Mention novel, CubaCuba)
• Emerio Medina: The boot on the dead bull (note, CubaCuba)
  • Virginia G. Gallardo: The future (Mention story, Argentina)
  • Norberto Mauricio Espinosa: Little miracles (Mention story, Argentina)
• Patricia Suárez: Brindar with strangers (Mention story, Argentina)
• Carlos E. Bishoff: Your step (Testimony, Argentina)
• Nelson de Oliveira: Poeira: demons e maldições (Brazilian literature, BrazilBrazil)
  • Mariana Ianelli: Treva onboard (Mention Brazilian literature, BrazilBrazil)
  • Orlando Senna: Os lençóis e os sonhos (Mention Brazilian literature, BrazilBrazil)
• Artistic-literary essay: the jury declared the prize desert and awarded 4 mentions:
  • Luis Álvarez Álvarez and Ana María González Maffud: From José Lezama Lima to Severo Sarduy (Language and Neo-Broco in Cuba) (CubaCuba)
  • Leandro Estupiñán Zaldívar: Revolution Monday: Commitment and Freedom (CubaCuba)
  • Cecilia López Badano: Immersions in the socio-esthetic maëlstrom of Roberto Bolaño. Literary representations of contemporary Latin American diaspora (Argentina)
  • Elsa Noya: Cannibalize the library. Debates of the Puerto Rican literary and cultural field (1990-2005) (Argentina)
• Kamau Brathwaite: The dancers of time. Poetry anthology (Poesía José Lezama Lima Award, BarbadosBarbados)
• Eduardo Galeano: Mirrors. An almost universal story (Joseph Mary Arguedas Prize, Uruguay Uruguay)
• Ana Pizarro: Amazon. The river has voices (Ezequiel Martínez Estrada essay award, ChileChile)

2012

There was no novel or poetry contest

• Ignacio Apolo and Laura Gutman: Sex tao (teatro, Argentina)
  • Ximena Carrera: Medusa (Special menu, theatre, ChileChile)
  • Mariela Finkelstein: Don't die (Mention theatre, Argentina)
• Josefina Porcelli Piussi: My brother came from another planet a day of a lot of wind (literature for children and young people, Argentina)
  • Carlos Marianidis: Prohibited dream (Mention of literature for children and young people, Argentina)
  • Elena Beatriz Corujo Morales: Blue Pargos (Mention of literature for children and young people, CubaCuba)
• Gary Victor: Le sang et la mer (novela; Caribbean literature in French or Creole, HaitiHaiti)
  • Gisèle Pineau: Morne Câpresse (Mention of Caribbean literature in French or Creole, Guadalupe)
• João José Reis, Flávio dos Santos Gomes and Marcos J. M. de Carvalho: Or Alufá Rufino. Traffic, escravidão e liberdade no Atlântico negro (1822-1853) (Brazilian literature, BrazilBrazil)
  • Luis Bernardo Pericás: Os cangaceiros (Mention Brazilian literature, BrazilBrazil)
  • Heloisa Pontes: Performers give metropole. História social e relações de gênero no teatro e no campo intellectual, 1940-1968 (Mention Brazilian literature, BrazilBrazil)
• Cristina Beltrán:The Trouble With Unity: Latino Politics and the Creation of Identity (studies on Latinos in the United States, United States of America
  • Lorrin Thomas: Puerto Rican Citizen: History and Political Identity in Twentieth Century New York (Mention studies on Latinos in the United States, United States of America
• Zuleica Romay: Elogio de la altea o las paradojas de la racialidad (Extraordinary Prize for Studies on the Black Presence in Contemporary America and the Caribbean, CubaCuba)
  • Inés María Martiatu-Terry: And the blacks what? Thinking of Afrofeminism in Cuba (Mención Premio Extraordinario de estudios sobre la presencia negro en la América y el Caribe contemporáneas, CubaCuba)
• Humberto Vinueza: Work true. Poetry anthology (Poesía José Lezama Lima Award, EcuadorEcuador)
• Ricardo Piglia: Night white (Joseph Mary Arguedas Prize, Argentina)
• Raúl Bueno: It promises and discontents modernity. Literary and cultural studies in Latin America(Ezequiel Martínez Estrada Estrada Essay Award, Peru Peru

2013

The novel prize was declared void

• Gabriel Cortiñas: Pujato (peace, Argentina)
  • Leonel Alvarado: Poorly spoken portraits (Mention poetry, HondurasHonduras
  • Christian Birds: The Times of Humanity (Mention poetry, EcuadorEcuador)
• Jesus Arboleya Cervera: Cuba and the Cuban Americans. An analysis of Cuban emigration (historic-social message, CubaCuba)
  • Viviana Bravo Vargas: Stones, barricades and cacerolas: sound and strength of resistance in Chile. National Days of Protest 1983-1987 (Mention historical-social essay, ChileChile)
  • Carlos Alzugaray Treto: Imperial diplomacy and revolution. The United States of America to the Cuban Revolution 1959-1960: Reticente a la rupture ominosa (Mention historical-social essay, CubaCuba)
  • Enrique Cirules: Hemingway, that stranger (Mention historical-social essay, CubaCuba)
• Nicholas Doljanin: The shadow of the uncle (Testimony, Argentina)
  • Nicolas Goszi: The honor of the block (First mention of testimonial literature, Argentina)
  • Socrates Zuzunaga Huaita: Like a sword in the air (Second mention of testimonial literature, Peru Peru
  • Urbano Martínez Carmenate: Carpentier, the other novel (Third mention of testimonial literature, CubaCuba)
• Luiz Ruffato: Sundays Sem Deus (Brazilian literature, BrazilBrazil)
  • Rodrigo de Souza Leão: Carbon Paed, Memoria de um Escritório Assistant (Special Brazilian literature, BrazilBrazil)
  • Evandro Affonso Ferreira: Or beggar that Sabia de Cor os Adágios de Erasmus de Rotterdam (Mention Brazilian literature, BrazilBrazil)
• Lucia Guerra: The City of Others: Subjectivities of Mapuche Origin in the Urban Space (Extraordinary Prize for Studies on the Originating Cultures of America, ChileChile)
  • Luz María Lepe Lira: Reports of difference and indigenous literature. Travesías por el sistema mundo (Extraordinary Prize for Studies on the Originating Cultures of America, Mexico Mexico)
  • Ricardo Cavalcanti-Schiel: From the wild reluctance of thought. Social memory in Los Andes sures (Extraordinary Prize for Studies on the Originating Cultures of America, BrazilBrazil)
• Rafael Courtoisie: Shoot us temblad (Poesía José Lezama Lima Award, Uruguay Uruguay)
• Buarque Boy: Milk spilled (Joseph Mary Arguedas Prize, BrazilBrazil)
• Victor Barrera Enderle: Insurgent readers. The formation of Hispanic American literary criticism (1810-1870) (Ezequiel Martínez Estrada Essay Award; Mexico Mexico)

2014

• Margarita García Robayo: Worst things (note, ColombiaColombia)
• Alejandro Román Bahena: White with black blood (teatro, Mexico Mexico)
  • Abel González Melo: System (Mention theatre, CubaCuba)
• Carlos Orlando Fino Gómez: José Lezama Lima: aesthetics and historiography of art in his critical work (artistic-literary message, ColombiaColombia)
  • María Antonia Borroto Trujillo: Julián del Casal: Modernity and Journalism (Mention art-literary essay, CubaCuba)
  • Marina Porcelli: Men in the desert. Otritude in Latin America. (Auto) biography, letters and journals. Dialogue with the current narrative (Mention art-literary essay, Argentina)
• Mário Magalhães: Marighella: o guerrilheiro que incendiou o mundo (Brazilian literature) BrazilBrazil)
• David Austin: Fear of a Black Nation - Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal (Caribbean literature in English or Creole, Jamaica)
  • Montague Kobbé: The Night of the Rambler (Mention of Caribbean literature in English or Creole, AnguillaAnguilla)
  • Lawrence Scott: Light Falling on Bamboo (Mention of Caribbean literature in English or Creole, Trinidad and TobagoTrinidad and Tobago)
• Mariana Libertad Suárez: The unconfirmable nut. Feminist appropriations by Manuela Sáenz (1944-1963) (Premio de estudios sobre la mujer, Venezuela Venezuela)
  • Alejandra Castillo: The disorder of democracy. Political parties of women in Chile (Mención Premio de estudios sobre la mujer, ChileChile)
  • Guisela López: Latin American writers: contribution to the discourse of transgression (Mención Premio de estudios sobre la mujer, GuatemalaGuatemala)
• Bonnett Piedad: Unsolicited explanations (Poesía José Lezama Lima Award, ColombiaColombia)
• Juan Villoro: Arrecife (Joseph Mary Arguedas Prize, Mexico Mexico)
• Luiz Bernardo Pericás: Che Guevara and the economic debate in Cuba (Ezequiel Martínez Estrada Essay Award; BrazilBrazil)

2015

• Adelaida Fernández Ochoa: The hose licks my skin with dog affection (novela, ColombiaColombia)
  • Débora Mundani: The river (mention novel, Argentina)
  • Juan Mattio: Three times light (mention novel, Argentina)
• Nelson Romero Guzmán: Under the brightness of the moon (peace, ColombiaColombia)
  • Alejandro Castro: The station (Poetry mention, Argentina)
  • Maria Malusardi: The tailor (Poetry mention, Argentina)
• José M. Ferrán Oliva: Cuba year 2025 (meaning of historical-social theme, CubaCuba)
  • Guillermo Rodríguez Rivera: The racial problem in Cuba (the first books of Nicolás Guillén) (rehearsal message of historical-social theme, CubaCuba)
• Bernardo Ajzenberg: Minha life sem banho (Brazilian literature, BrazilBrazil)
  • Rogério Pereira: Na oscuridão, amanhã (special mention novel, BrazilBrazil)
  • Amálio Pinheiro: Sunset (Poetry mention, BrazilBrazil)
  • Beatriz Bracher: Garimpo (mention story, BrazilBrazil)
• José Acosta: One kilometer of sea (Latin literature in the United States, Dominican RepublicDominican Republic)
  • Daisy Hernández: A Cup of Water Under My Bed (honorous mention, United States of America
• Mildre Hernández: The frozen child (literature for children and young people, CubaCuba)
  • Maricel Palomeque: When the dragon comes (literature for children and young people, Argentina)
  • Christian Nelson Medina Negrín: Water eye (literature for children and young people, CubaCuba)
• Tamara Kamenszain: The novel of poetry (Poesía José Lezama Lima Award, Argentina)
• Mario Bellatin: The Uruguayan Book of the Dead (Joseph Mary Arguedas Award of Narrative, Mexico Mexico)
• Claudia Zapata Silva: Indigenous intellectuals in Ecuador, Bolivia and Chile. Difference, colonialism and anticolonialism (Ezequiel Martínez Estrada essay award, ChileChile)

2016

There was no novel contest

• Legna Rodríguez Iglesias: If this is a tragedy I am a bicycle (teatro, CubaCuba)
  • Laura Liz Gil Echenique: Subasta (Boceto No. 1 of the Diaspora series) (theater song, CubaCuba)
  • Rogelio Orizondo: Yellow, Dream Rd (theater song, CubaCuba)
  • Mariano Saba: Odyssey double par (Farsa of the Empire) (theater song, Argentina)
• Ariel Urquiza: Not one voice in heaven (note, Argentina)
• Diego Falconí Trávez: From the ashes to the text. Andean literature of sexual dissent in the 20th century (experiment of artistic-literary theme, EcuadorEcuador)
  • Mailyn Machado: Afloat. Two decades of art in Cuba (rehearsal art-literary theme, CubaCuba)
  • Joaquín Borges Triana: Wrong hearts: Where is my world? (rehearsal art-literary theme, CubaCuba)
• Miguel Rocha Vivas: Mingas of the word. Oralitegraphic textures and head visions in contemporary indigenous oral and literature (studies on cultures originating in America, ColombiaColombia)
• Cristian Santos: Devotos e Devassos. Representação dos padres e beatas na literatura anticlerical brasileira (Brazilian literature, BrazilBrazil)
• Raphaël Confiant: Le Bataillon créole (Guerre de 1914-1918) (Caribbean literature in French or Creole, Martinique)
  • Ernest Pepin: Guadeloupe ouvre ses ailes froisseés (Caribbean literature in French or Creole, GuadalupeGuadalupe)
• Eduardo Langagne: Possible truth (Poesía José Lezama Lima Award, Mexico Mexico)
• Fernando Butazzoni: The ashes of the condor (Joseph Mary Arguedas Prize, Uruguay Uruguay)
• Victor Goldgel: When the new one conquered America. Press, fashion and literature in the 19th century (Ezequiel Martínez Estrada essay award, Argentina)

2017

• Ernesto Carrión: We lit the mares in the morning (novela, EcuadorEcuador)
  • Karina Puerta: Loss (mention novel, Argentina)
• Reynaldo García Blanco: This is a vinyl album where there are Russian songs to listen in English and vice versa (peace, CubaCuba)
  • Fredy Yezzed: Letter of the women of this country (Poetry mention, ColombiaColombia)
• Pedro Agudelo Rendón: Painful America and other ecclesiastical stories of Latin America (meaning of social historical theme, ColombiaColombia)
  • Baloy May: Social movements and the left in Mexico, 150 years of struggle (rehearsal message of social historical theme, Mexico Mexico)
• Liliana Villanueva: It will always rain (testinal literature, Argentina)
  • Yoe Suarez: Talks in the mosaic (testinal literature mention, CubaCuba)
• Maria Valeria Rezende: Outros cantos (Brazilian literature, BrazilBrazil)
  • Armando Freitas Filho: Rol (meaning Brazilian literature, BrazilBrazil)
• Emilio Jorge Rodríguez: A soft, tender line of blue mountains (Premio de estudios sobre la presencia negro en la América y el Caribe contamporáneos, CubaCuba)
• Raúl Vallejo: Mystical Tabernarium (Poesía José Lezama Lima Award, EcuadorEcuador)
• Pablo Montoya: Triptych of infamy (Joseph Mary Arguedas Prize, ColombiaColombia)
• Hannibal Quijano: Issues and horizons: from structural historical dependence to coloniality/decoloniality of power (Ezequiel Martínez Estrada essay award, Peru Peru
• Yolanda Pantin: What makes time (American poetry prize, Venezuela Venezuela)

2018

There was no novel or poetry contest

• Rafael de Águila: All legs in the air (note, CubaCuba)
  • Jimena Néspolo: The four legs of love (mention story, Argentina)
  • Hector Prahim: The pavilion of domestic animals (mention story, Argentina)
• Fernando José Crespi: Paraje Luna (teatro, Argentina)
• Ana Forcinito: Listen to me with your eyes: Cinema, women, visions and voices (experiment of artistic-literary theme, Argentina)
  • Beatriz Carolina Peña Núñez: Vilcabamba's Incas at the First History (1590) by Martin de Murúa (rehearsal art-literary theme, Venezuela Venezuela)
• Carlos Cortez Minchillo: Erico Veríssimo, writer do mundo (Brazilian literature, BrazilBrazil)
  • Iacy Maia Mata: Conspirações da raça de cor: escravidão, liberdade e tensões raciais em Santiago de Cuba (1864-1881) (meaning Brazilian literature, BrazilBrazil)
• Anthony Kellman: Tracing Jaha (Caribbean literature in English or Creole, BarbadosBarbados)
  • Sharon Milagro Marshall: Tell My Mother I Gone to Cuba (Caribbean literature in English or Creole, BarbadosBarbados)
  • Philip Nanton: Canouan Suite & Other Pieces (Caribbean literature in English or Creole, Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesSaint Vincent and the Grenadines)
• Yanetsy Pino Reina: Stealing and shilarating resistance (non-disastrophic pacts between female identity and poetry) (Premio de estudios sobre la mujer, CubaCuba)
• José Antonio Mazzotti: The fox and moon, poems gathered (1981-2016) (Poesía José Lezama Lima Award, Peru Peru
• Milton Fornaro: The madness (Joseph Mary Arguedas Prize, Uruguay Uruguay)
• Saul Sosnowski: Hispanic American lyric mapping: memory tissues (Ezequiel Martínez Estrada essay award, Argentina)

2019

There was no short story or theater contest

• Eduardo F. Varela: The route (novela, Argentina)
  • Roberto Montaña: The night we found The Past (mention novel, Uruguay Uruguay)
  • Juan Pablo Morales: Life sewn (mention novel, Argentina)
• Juan José Rodinás: Yaraví to sing under the northern skies (unauthorised biography of a South American Banksy) (peace, EcuadorEcuador)
• Reinaldo Funes Monzote: Our trip to the moon. The idea of the transformation of nature in Cuba during the Cold War (social historical memory, CubaCuba)
• Alexis Díaz Pimienta: Night skin (literature for children and young people, CubaCuba)
  • Martin Doria: Melisa between the leaves (literature for children and young people, ColombiaColombia)
  • Joaquín Casasola: In Elvis's shoes (literature for children and young people, Mexico Mexico)
• Deborah Dornellas: By sea, novel (Brazilian literature, BrazilBrazil)
  • Adriana Lisboa: Little musicpoetry (meaning Brazilian literature, BrazilBrazil)
  • Sandra Godinho: Orelha lavada, roubada childhood, tale (meaning Brazilian literature, BrazilBrazil)
• María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo: Indian Given. Racial Geographies across Mexico and the United States (Latin American Studies, United States of America
  • Lisandro Pérez: Sugar, Cigars and Revolution: The Making of Cuban New York (measure studies on Latinos in the United States, CubaCubaUnited States of America
  • Chris Zepeda-Millán: Latino Mass Mobilization. Inmigration, Racialization and Activism (measure studies on Latinos in the United States, United States of America
• José María Memet: Meli Witran Mapu. Land of the four places (Poesía José Lezama Lima Award, ChileChile)
• Juan Cárdenas: The Devil of the Provinces (Joseph Mary Arguedas Prize, ColombiaColombia)
• Angel G. Quintero-Rivera: Saoco salsero! Or the swing of the Major Sonero. Urban sociology of rhythm memory (Ezequiel Martínez Estrada essay award, Puerto RicoPuerto Rico)

2020

There was no novel or poetry contest

• José Manuel Ríos Guerra: Literature is a serious thing (note, Mexico Mexico)
• Abel González Melo: Bayamesa. Réquiem por María Luisa Milanés (teatro, CubaCuba)
• Jorge Alejandro Boccanera: Eyes of the word, (Poetry Prize José Lezama Lima, Argentina)
• Diamela Eltit: Add, (Joseph Mary Arguedas Award of Narrative ChileChile)
• Silviano Santiago: A literature in the tropics. Choice essays, (Ezequiel Martínez Estrada essay award, BrazilBrazil)

2021

The contest was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

2022

There was no short story or theater contest

• Javier Núñez: Daughter of anyone (novela, Argentina)
• Luis Llorente: Exceptional summer beauty (peace, CubaCuba)
  • Carolina Fernández: Boring quilkas (Poetry mention, Peru Peru
  • Benjamin Chávez: For some time when it darkens (Poetry mention, BoliviaBolivia
• José Antonio Piqueras Arenas: Currency and social unrest in Cuba (1790-1902) (social historical memory, SpainSpain)