Xavier Villaurrutia Award

Xavier Villaurrutia Award

The Xavier Villaurrutia Award (Premio Xavier Villaurrutia) is a prestigious literary prize given in Mexico, to a Latin American writer published in Mexico. Founded in 1955, it was named in memory of Xavier Villaurrutia.

Multiple awards have been given in some years. No award was made in 1968, when it was suspended in recognition of the imprisonment of José Revueltas who had won the award in 1967.

Recipients of the award

* 1955: Juan Rulfo, for "Pedro Páramo" (novel)
* 1956: Octavio Paz, for "El arco y la lira" (essay)
* 1957: Josefina Vicens, El libro vacío" (novel)
* 1958: no award
* 1959: Marco Antonio Montes de Oca, for "Delante de la luz cantan los pájaros" (poetry)
* 1960: Rosario Castellanos, for "Ciudad Real" (novel)
* 1961: no award
* 1962 : no award
* 1963
** Elena Garro, for "Los recuerdos del porvenir" (novel)
**Juan José Arreola, for "La feria" (novel)
* 1964: Homero Aridjis, for "Mirándola dormir" (poetry)
* 1965: Salvador Elizondo, for "Farabeuf" (novel)
* 1966: Fernando del Paso, for "José Trigo" (novel)
* 1967: José Revueltas, for life’s work
* 1968: suspended
* 1969: Elena Poniatowska, for "La noche de Tlatelolco" (chronicle)
* 1970: Eduardo Lizalde, for "El tigre en la casa" (poetry)
* 1971: Carlos Montemayor, for "Las llaves de Urgell" (short story)
*1972
**Juan García Ponce, for "Encuentros" (Short story)
**Gabriel Zaid, for "Leer poetry" (essay)
**Hugo Hiriart, for "Galaor" (novel)
**Jaime Sabines and Ernesto Mejía Sánchez, for life’s work
*1973
**Federico Arana, for "Las jiras" (novel)
**Esther Seligson, for "Otros son los sueños" (novel)
**José Emilio Pacheco, for "El principio del placer" (novel)
**Tomás Segovia, for "Terceto" (poetry)
**Héctor Azar, for "" (theatre)
*1974
**Arturo Azuela, for "El tamaño del infierno" (novel)
**Julieta Campos, for "Tiene los cabellos rojizos y se llama Sabina" (novel)
**Gustavo Sainz, for "La princesa del Palacio de Hierro" (novel)
**Manuel Echeverría, for "Un redoble muy largo" (novel)
*1975
**Carlos Fuentes, for "Terra nostra" (novel)
**Augusto Monterroso, for "Antología personal" (Short story)
**José Vázquez Amaral, for "Ezra Pound, cantares completos" (essay)
**Efraín Huerta, for life’s work
*1976
**Tita Valencia, for "Minotauromaquia" (poetry)
**Jorge Enrique Adoum, for "Entre Marx y una mujer desnuda" (theatre)
**Daniel Leyva, for "Crispal" (novel)
**Enrique González Rojo, for "El quíntuple balar de mis sentidos" (poetry)
*1977
**Silvia Molina, for "La mañana debe seguir gris" (novel)
**Jaime Reyes, for "Isla de raíz amarga, insomne raíz" (poetry)
**Amparo Dávila, for "Árboles petrificados" (short story)
**Luis Mario Schneider, for "La resurrección de Clotilde Goñi" (novel)
*1978
**José Luis González, for "Balada de otro tiempo" (novel)
**Isabel Fraire, for "Poemas en el regazo de la muerte" (poetry)
**Emiliano González, for "Los sueños de la Bella Durmiente" (short story)
**Ulalume González de León, for "El riesgo del placer" (essay)
*1979
**Carlos Eduardo Turón, for "La libertad tiene otro nombre" (poetry)
**Inés Arredondo, for "Río subterráneo" (novel)
*1980
**Sergio Fernández, for "Segundo sueño" (novel)
**Fernando Curiel, for "" (essay)
**Jesús Gardea, for "Septiembre y los otros días" (short story)
**Alí Chumacero, for life’s work
*1981
**Margarita Villaseñor, for "El rito cotidiano" (poetry)
**Jaime del Palacio, for "Parejas" (novel)
**Noé Jitrik, for "Fin del ritual" (novel)
**Sergio Pitol, for "Nocturno de Bujara" (short story)
*1982
**Alberto Dallal, for "El “dancing” mexicano" (essay)
**Eraclio Zepeda, for "Andando el tiempo" (short story)
**Luisa Josefina Hernández, for "Apocalipsis cum figuris" (theatre)
**Francisco Cervantes, for "Cantado para nadie" (poetry)
*1983
**Sergie I. Zaitzeff, for "El arte de Julio Torri" (essay)
**Carlos Illescas, for "Usted es la culpable" (poetry)
**María Luisa Puga, for "Pánico o peligro" (novel)
**Héctor Manjarrez, for "No todos los hombres son románticos" (novel)
*1984
**Jomi García Ascot, for "" (poetry)
**Carmen Alardín, for "La violencia del otoño" (poetry)
**Arturo González Cosío, for "El pequeño bestiario ilustrado" (poetry)
**Margo Glantz, for "Síndrome de naufragios" (Short story)
**Lisa Block de Behar, for "Una retórica del silencio" (essay)
*1985: Angelina Muñiz-Huberman, for "Huerto cerrado, huerto sellado" (short story)
* 1986
**Sergio Galindo, for "Otilia Rauda" (novel)
**Federico Patán, for "Último exilio" (novel)
*1987
**Alberto Ruy Sánchez, for "Los nombres del aire" (novel)
**Bárbara Jacobs, for "Las hojas muertas" (novel)
*1988
**Álvaro Mutis, for "Ilona llega con la lluvia" (novel)
**Ernesto de la Peña, for "Las estratagemas de Dios" (Short story)
*1989
**Carmen Boullosa, for "Antes , La salvaja y Papeles irresponsables" (novel)
**Guillermo Sheridan, for "" (essay)
*1990
**José Luis Rivas, for "Brazos de mar" (poetry)
**Emilio García Riera, for "El cine es mejor que la vida" (memoires)
*1991
**Vicente Quirarte, for "El ángel es vampiro" (poetry)
**Gerardo Deniz, for "Amor y oxidente
*1992
**Daniel Sada, for "Registro de causantes" (short story)
**Marco Antonio Campos, for "Antología personal" (poetry)
*1993: Jorge López Páez, for "Los cerros azules" (novel)
* 1994: Francisco Hernández, for "Moneda de tres caras" (poetry)
* 1995: Carlos Monsiváis, for "Los rituales del caos" (chronicle)
* 1996: Jaime Labastida, for "Animal de silencios y La palabra enemiga" (poetry)
* 1997: Jorge Ruiz Dueñas, for "Habitaré su nombre y Saravá" (poetry)
* 1998: Ignacio Solares, for "El sitio" (novel)
*1999: Juan Villoro, for "La casa pierde" (Short story)
* 2000: Vicente Leñero, for "La inocencia de este mundo" (anthology)
* 2001: Mario Bellatin, for "Flores" (novel)
* 2002
**Juan Bañuelos, for "A paso de hierba" (poetry)
**Hugo Gutiérrez Vega, for "" (poetry)
*2003
**Coral Bracho, for "Ese espacio, ese jardín" (poetry)
**Pedro Ángel Palou García, for "Con la muerte en los puños" (novel)
* 2004: Christopher Domínguez Michael, for "Vida de Fray Servando" (essay)
* 2005: David Huerta, for "Versión" (poetry)
* 2006: Alejandro Rossi, por "Edén. Vida imaginada" (novel)
*2007
**Elsa Cross, for "Cuaderno de Amorgós" (poetry)
**Pura Lopez Colomé, for "y Santo y Seña " (poetry)

External links

* [http://www.literaturainba.com/premios/xavier_villaurrutia.htm El Premio Xavier Villaurrutia, Coordinación Nacional de Literatura] - in Spanish


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