Princess of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities

The Princess of Asturias Awards for Communication and Humanities (Prince of Asturias Awards, until 2014) have been awarded, since 1981, to a person, group of people or institution whose creative or research work represents a relevant contribution to universal culture in these fields.

List of winners

Year	Awarded	Activity	Nationality
1981	Maria Zambrano	Philosopher and essayist	SpainSpain
1982	Mario Bunge	Physical, philosopher, epistemologist and humanist	Argentina
1983	Journal El País	Newspaper	SpainSpain
1984	Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz	Historian and politician	SpainSpain
1985	José Ferrater Mora	Philosopher, essayist and writer	SpainSpain
1986	O Globo	Communication Group	BrazilBrazil
1987	Journal Time	Newspaper (publication)	ColombiaColombia
	Journal The Spectator	Newspaper (publication)	ColombiaColombia
1988	Horacio Sáenz Guerrero	Journalist	SpainSpain
1989	Pedro Laín Entralgo	Doctor, writer and historian of Medicine	SpainSpain
	Economic Culture Fund	Editorial	Mexico Mexico
1990	Universidad Centroamericana "José Simeón Cañas"	Higher Education Centre	El SalvadorEl Salvador
1991	Luis María Anson	Journalist and writer	SpainSpain
1992	Emilio García Gómez	Arabist and translator	SpainSpain
1993	Revista Returnof Octavio Paz	Revista	Mexico Mexico
1994	Spanish missions in Rwanda and Burundi	Humanitarian missions	SpainSpain
1995	EFE Agency	Information agency	SpainSpain
	José Luis López Aranguren	Philosopher and essayist	SpainSpain
1996	Indro Montanelli	Journalist and writer	ItalyItaly
	Julian Marias	Philosopher and essayist	SpainSpain
1997	Václav Havel	Politics, writer and playwright	Czech RepublicCzech Republic
	CNN	Television chain	United States
1998	Reinhard Mohn	Business and editor	GermanyGermany
1999	Instituto Caro y Cuervo	Centre for Higher Studies in Literature, Philology and Linguistics	ColombiaColombia
2000	Umberto Eco	Writer and philosopher	ItalyItaly
2001	George Steiner	Writer, philosopher and literary critic	France
2002	Hans Magnus Enzensberger	Poet and essayist	GermanyGermany
2003	Ryszard Kapuściński	Journalist and essayist	PolandPoland
	Gustavo Gutiérrez Merino	Philosopher and theologian	Peru Peru
2004	Jean Daniel	Journalist	France
2005	Goethe Institute	European cultural institutions	GermanyGermany
	Instituto Cervantes		SpainSpain
	Instituto Camões		Portugal
	Alliance française		France
	Dante Alighieri Society		ItalyItaly
	British Council		United KingdomUnited Kingdom
2006	National Geographic Society	Geography Society	United States
2007	Revista Nature	Scientific journal	United KingdomUnited Kingdom
	Revista Science	Scientific journal	United States
2008	Google	Search engine	United States
2009	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Higher Education Centre	Mexico Mexico
2010	Zygmunt Bauman	Sociologist	PolandPoland
	Alain Touraine	Sociologist	France
2011	Royal Society	The oldest scientific community in the world	United KingdomUnited Kingdom
2012	Shigeru Miyamoto	Video game designer and producer	JapanJapan
2013	Annie Leibovitz	Photographer	United States
2014	Joaquín Salvador Lavado Tejón, "Quino"	Drawing	Argentina
2015	Emilio Lledo	Philosopher	SpainSpain
2016	James Nachtwey	War photographer	United States
2017	Les Luthiers	Musicians and humorists	Argentina
2018	Alma Guillermoprieto	Journalist	Mexico Mexico
2019	Museo del Prado	Museum	SpainSpain
2020	International Book Fair of Guadalajara	Book Fair	Mexico Mexico
	There's Festival	Book Fair	WalesWales
2021	Gloria Steinem	Journalist and writer	United States
2022	Adam Michnik	Journalist and writer	PolandPoland

Award winners by country

Country	Number of awards
SpainSpain	14
United States	7
Mexico Mexico	5
France	4
GermanyGermany	3
Argentina	3
ItalyItaly	3
PolandPoland	3
United KingdomUnited Kingdom	3
ColombiaColombia	2
BrazilBrazil	1
El SalvadorEl Salvador	1
WalesWales	1
JapanJapan	1
Peru Peru	1
Portugal	1
Czech RepublicCzech Republic	1