Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize
Encyclopedia
The Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize] (Premio Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz) is a prize awarded to women writers in Spanish
. It is organized by the Guadalajara International Book Fair
, based in Guadalajara, Jalisco
, Mexico
. The prize is worth 100,000 pesos
. The chosen book will also be translated into English for publication.
The prize is in honour of the seventeenth century Mexican writer Juana Inés de la Cruz.
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
. It is organized by the Guadalajara International Book Fair
Guadalajara International Book Fair
The Guadalajara International Book Fair, better known as the FIL is the most important annual event of its kind in the Spanish-speaking world, and the second largest book fair in the world after Frankfurt's. Created in 1987, the FIL is put on by the University of Guadalajara...
, based in Guadalajara, Jalisco
Guadalajara, Jalisco
Guadalajara is the capital of the Mexican state of Jalisco, and the seat of the municipality of Guadalajara. The city is located in the central region of Jalisco in the western-pacific area of Mexico. With a population of 1,564,514 it is Mexico's second most populous municipality...
, Mexico
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
. The prize is worth 100,000 pesos
Mexican peso
The peso is the currency of Mexico. Modern peso and dollar currencies have a common origin in the 15th–19th century Spanish dollar, most continuing to use its sign, "$". The Mexican peso is the 12th most traded currency in the world, the third most traded in the Americas, and by far the most...
. The chosen book will also be translated into English for publication.
The prize is in honour of the seventeenth century Mexican writer Juana Inés de la Cruz.
Winners
- 2010: Claudia Piñeiro (Argentina) Las grietas de Jara
- 2009: Cristina Rivera GarzaCristina Rivera GarzaCristina Rivera Garza is a Mexican writer born in Matamoros, Tamaulipas in 1964. She is the only author to have won the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize twice. First in 2001 for her novel Nadie me verá llorar and again in 2009 for her novel La muerte me da...
(Mexico) La muerte me da - 2008: Gioconda BelliGioconda BelliGioconda Belli is an author, novelist and renowned Nicaraguan poet.-Early life:Gioconda Belli, of Northern Italian descent, was an active participant in the Sandinista struggle against the Somoza dictatorship, and her work for the movement led to her being forced into exile in Mexico in 1975...
(Nicaragua) El Infinito en la palma de la mano - 2007: Tununa Mercado Yo nunca te prometí la eternidad
- 2006: Claudia Amengual Desde las cenizas
- 2005: Paloma Villegas Agosto y fuga (August Escape)
- 2004: Cristina Sánchez-Andrade Ya no pisa la tierra tu rey
- 2003: Margo GlantzMargo GlantzMargo Glantz is a Mexican writer, essayist, critic and academic.- Biography :Margo Glantz's family immigrated to Mexico from Ukraine in the 1920s. Her father, Jacobo Glantz, met her mother, Elizabeth Shapiro in Odessa, where they married...
El rastro - 2002: Ana Gloria MoyaAna Gloria MoyaAna Gloria Moya is an Argentine novelist who has achieved national and international recognition.Her novel Cielo de tambores won the international Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize in 2002...
Cielo de tambores (Sky of Drums) - 2001: Cristina Rivera GarzaCristina Rivera GarzaCristina Rivera Garza is a Mexican writer born in Matamoros, Tamaulipas in 1964. She is the only author to have won the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize twice. First in 2001 for her novel Nadie me verá llorar and again in 2009 for her novel La muerte me da...
Nadie me verá llorar - 1999: Sylvia IparraguirreSylvia IparraguirreSylvia Iparraguirre is an Argentine novelist and human rights activist. Her novel Tierra del Fuego: Una Biografia del Fin del Mundo won the 1999 Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize for women writers in Spanish...
La tierra del fuego - 1998: Silvia Molina El amor que me juraste (The Love You Promised Me)
- 1997: Laura RestrepoLaura RestrepoLaura Restrepo is one of the most skilled writers to emerge from Latin America since the days of the Latin American Boom. She was born in Bogotá, Colombia in 1950 and after about 25 years she began to write her first serious works, mainly political columns. Her first fiction novel, Isle of...
Dulce compañía - 1996: Elena GarroElena GarroElena Garro was a Mexican writer. She was once married to writer Octavio Paz.-Biography:Elena Garro was born to a Spanish father and a Mexican mother on December 11, 1916 in Puebla, Mexico. She spent her childhood in Mexico City but moved to Iguala, Guerrero, during the Cristero War...
Busca mi esquela - 1995: Tatiana LoboTatiana LoboTatiana Lobo is a Costa Rican author.Lobo was born in Puerto Montt, Chile, but has resided in Costa Rica since 1963, and is generally considered a Costa Rican writer. Her published works have crossed over several genres, including plays, short stories and novels...
Asalto al paraíso - 1994: Marcela SerranoMarcela SerranoMarcela Serrano is an award-winning Chilean novelist. In 1994, her first novel won the Literary Prize in Santiago, and her second book won the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize for women writers in Spanish...
Nosotras que nos queremos tanto - 1993: Angelina Muñiz-HubermanAngelina Muñiz-Huberman-External links:...
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