Miguel de Cervantes Prize

Miguel de Cervantes Prize
Medal of the Miguel de Cervantes Prize
Country	Spain
Presented by	Ministry of Culture
Reward(s)	€125,000
First awarded	1976

The Miguel de Cervantes Prize (Spanish: Premio de Literatura en Lengua Castellana Miguel de Cervantes) is awarded annually to honour the lifetime achievement of an outstanding writer in the Spanish language.

Established in 1976, the prize rewards authors from any Spanish-speaking nation, and recognizes the recipient's overall body of work. The award is named after Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote.

The candidates are proposed by the Association of Spanish Language Academies, and the prize is awarded by the Ministry of Culture of Spain. The winner receives a monetary award of 125,000 euros, it is one of the richest literary prizes in the world and one of the most prestigious in the Spanish language.

Two winners of the Cervantes Prize, Octavio Paz (Cervantes 1981, Nobel 1990) and Mario Vargas Llosa (Cervantes 1994, Nobel 2010) were awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in subsequent years. Camilo José Cela first received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1989 and was awarded the Cervantes Prize in 1995.

The list of winners is available at the official Premio 'Miguel Cervantes' website.