National Prize for Literature of Chile
The Chilean National Literature Award, which belongs to the Chilean National Awards, is considered the highest literature award in this country. It was created on November 9, 1942 during the presidency of Juan Antonio Ríos.
The prize consists of an indivisible delivery of a sum of money and a lifetime pension. It was granted annually until its modification on January 8, 1972, the date on which it began to be delivered every two years.
For its granting, the quality of the entire production of an author is considered, without discrimination of the genres of their specialty.
List of winners
| Year | Writer | Speciality | Photography | Main works |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942 | Augusto d'Halmar (1882-1950) | Ninthrist and Cuentist | .JPG) | Juana Lucero (1902)
Passion and death of the priest Deusto (1924) |
| 1943 | Joaquin Edwards Bello (1887-1968) | Novelist and chronist | .jpeg) | The Roto (1920)
The Chilean in Madrid (1928) |
| 1944 | Mariano Latorre (1886-1955) | Ninthrist and Cuentist | .JPG) | Zurzulita (1920)
On Panta (1935) |
| 1945 | Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) | Poet |  | Twenty poems of love and a desperate song (1924)
Residence on the ground (1935) |
| 1946 | Eduardo Barrios (1884-1963) | Cuentist, playwright and novelist |  | The boy who went crazy about love (1915)
Brother ass (1922) |
| 1947 | Samuel Lillo (1870-1958) | Poet and novelist |  | Poetry (1900)
Songs of Arauco (1908) |
| 1948 | Angel Cruchaga Santa Maria (1893-1964) | Poet and chronist |  | Job (1922)
Heart anguish (1933) |
| 1949 | Pedro Prado (1886-1952) | Poet, essayist and novelist |  | The wandering birds (1915)
Alsino (1920) |
| 1950 | José Santos González Vera (1897-1970) | Novelist |  | Minimum lives (1923)
Alhué (1928) |
| 1951 | Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) | Poet |  | Desolation (1922)
Tala (1938) |
| 1952 | Fernando Santiván (1886-1973) | Ninthrist and Cuentist |  | The crucible (1913)
She's spelled it. (1916) |
| 1953 | Daniel de la Vega (1892-1971) | Poet, playwright, chronicler and novelist |  | Light of candilejas: the theatre and its miseries (1930)
Targeted dates on the wall (1932) |
| 1954 | Victor Domingo Silva (1882-1960) | Poet, playwright and novelist |  | The new Marsellesa (1903)
Winter swallow (1912) |
| 1955 | Francisco Antonio Encina (1874-1965) | Essayist |  | Our economic inferiority, its causes, its consequences (1912)
History of Chile from Prehistory to 1891 (1952) |
| 1956 | Max Jara (1886-1965) | Poet |  | Could you...? (1914)
Sounders: (lower tone) (1922) |
| 1957 | Manuel Rojas (1896-1973) | Novelist |  | The delinquent, the glass of milk and other stories (1929)
Son of a thief (1951) |
| 1958 | Diego Dublé Urrutia (1877-1967) | Poet |  | Twenty years (1898)
Fontana canndida (1953) |
| 1959 | Hernán Díaz Arrieta (1891-1984) | Rehearsal and literary critic |  | The restless shadow (1915)
Personal History of Chilean Literature (1954) |
| 1960 | Julio Barrenechea (1910-1979) | Poet and novelist |  | The Myth of Butterflies (1930)
Daily die (1954) |
| 1961 | Marta Brunet (1897-1967) | Ninthrist and Cuentist | .JPG) | Mountain in (1923)
Tales for Mari-Sol (1938) |
| 1962 | Juan Guzmán Cruchaga (1895-1979) | Poet and playwright |  | Water from the sky (1924)
Song and other poems (1942) |
| 1963 | Benjamin Subercaseaux (1902-1973) | Novelist and rehearsal |  | Chile or a crazy geography (1940)
Ocean land. The Maritime Epic of a Land People (1946) |
| 1964 | Francisco Coloane (1910-2002) | Cuentist and novelist |  | The last group of the Baquedano (1941)
The Conquerors of Antarctica (1945) |
| 1965 | Pablo de Rokha (1894-1968) | Poet |  | Epic of Chilean drinks and meals (1945)
Black fire (1953) |
| 1966 | Juvencio Valle (1900-1999) | Poet | Nimbo stone (1941)
From the mountain on the hillside (1960) | |
| 1967 | Salvador Reyes Figueroa (1899-1970) | Ninthrist and Cuentist | Barco ebrio (1923)
The continent of men alone (1956) | |
| 1968 | Hernan del Solar (1901-1985) | Rehearsal, poet, novelist and children's storyteller |  | Green wind (1940)
The night in front (1952) |
| 1969 | Nicanor Parra (1914-2018) | Poet | .jpg) | Songbook without name (1937)
Poems and antipoems (1954) |
| 1970 | Carlos Droguett (1912-1996) | Ninthrist and Cuentist | Sixty dead on the ladder (1953)
Eloy (1960) | |
| 1971 | Humberto Díaz Casanueva (1906-1992) | Poet |  | Saba adventurer (1926)
The vertiginous daughter (1954) |
| 1972 | Edgardo Garrido (1888-1976) | Novelist |  | The ship still (1928)
The man on the mountain (1933) |
| 1974 | Sady Zañartu (1893-1983) | Ninthrist and Cuentist |  | The shadow of the correcter (1927)
Santiago: Old streets (1934) |
| 1976 | Arturo Aldunate Phillips (1902-1985) | Poet |  | Mathematics and poetry: essay and enthusiasm (1940)
Robots don't have God in their heart (1963) |
| 1978 | Rodolfo Oroz (1895-1997) | Rehearsal and philologist | The Spanish of our athletes (football-balompié) (1927)
The Castilian Language in Chile (1966) | |
| 1980 | Roque Esteban Scarpa (1914-1995) | Novelist and rehearsal | _(cropped).jpg) | Mortal maintenance (1942)
A woman no fool (1976) |
| 1982 | Marcela Paz (1902-1985) | Children ' s novelist |  | Paper. (1947)
Perico climbing through Chile (1978) |
| 1984 | Braulio Arenas (1913-1988) | Poet, playwright and novelist | .jpg) | Goodbye to the family (1961)
The labyrinth of Greta (1971) |
| 1986 | Enrique Campos Menéndez (1914-2007) | Novelist |  | Kupén: stories of the Earth of Fire (1940)
Bernardo O'Higgins: the father of the Chilean homeland (1942) |
| 1988 | Eduardo Anguita (1914-1992) | Poet |  | Venus in the rot (1967)
Complete poetry (1971) |
| 1990 | José Donoso (1924-1996) | Novelist |  | The place without limits (1966)
The dark bird of the night (1970) |
| 1992 | Gonzalo Rojas (1916-2011) | Poet |  | Against death (1964)
Dark (1977) |
| 1994 | Jorge Edwards
(1931-) | Ninthrist and Cuentist |  | The courtyard (1952)
The Wax Museum (1981) |
| 1996 | Miguel Arteche
(1926-2012) | Poet, novelist and essayist | .jpg) | Displacement and darkness (1963)
The wild life of Felix Palissa (1971) |
| 1998 | Alfonso Calderón (1930-2009) | Poet, novelist and essayist | .jpg) | Island of the Blessed (1973)
Poems for carving (1978) |
| 2000 | Raúl Zurita
(1950-) | Poet |  | Purgatory (1979)
Anteparaiso (1982) The new life (1994) |
| 2002 | Volodia Teitelboim (1916-2008) | Essayist |  | Son of the Psalm (1952)
Neruda (1984) |
| 2004 | Armando Uribe (1933-2020) | Poet and essayist | .jpg) | No place. (1970)
The Black Book of American Intervention in Chile (1974) |
| 2006 | José Miguel Varas (1928-2011) | Ninthrist and Cuentist |  | Neruda and the egg of Damocles (1991)
Full stories (2001) |
| 2008 | Efraín Barquero
(1931-2020) | Poet |  | The Stone of the People (1954)
Dark women (1993) |
| 2010 | Isabel Allende
(1942-) | Novelist |  | The House of Spirits (1982)
Ines of my soul (2006) |
| 2012 | Oscar Hahn
(1938-) | Poet |  | This black rose (1961)
In an eye open and close (2006) |
| 2014 | Antonio Skármeta
(1940-) | Novelist | .jpg) | Burning patience (1985)
The Dance of Victory (2003) |
| 2016 | Manuel Silva Acevedo
(1942-) | Poet |  | Wolves and sheep (1972)
Fifth day (2002) |
| 2018 | Diamela Eltit
(1947-) | Novelist |  | Lumpérica (1983)
The Fourth World (1988) |
| 2020 | Elicura Chihuailaf
(1952-) | Poet | .jpg) | Blue dreams and dreams (1995)
Confidential release to Chileans (1999) |
| 2022 | Hernán Rivera Letelier
(1950-) | Novelist and poet |  | Queen Elizabeth sang ranches (1994)
Holy Mary of the black flowers (2002) |