Princess of Asturias Awards
The Prince of Asturias Awards (Spanish: Premios Príncipe de Asturias) is a series of annual prizes given in Spain by the Prince of Asturias Foundation (Fundación Príncipe de Asturias) to individuals, entities and/or organizations from around the world who make notable achievements in the sciences, humanities, or public affairs. Established on 24th September 1980,[1] the awards are presented in Oviedo, the capital of the Principality of Asturias at a ceremony presided by Felipe, Prince of Asturias. A sculpture expressly created by Spanish sculptor Joan Miró is presented to the yearly recipients.
Categories
Arts
- 1981: Jesús López Cobos
- 1982: Pablo Serrano Aguilar
- 1983: Eusebio Sempere
- 1984: Orfeón Donostiarra
- 1985: Antonio López García
- 1986: Luis García Berlanga
- 1987: Eduardo Chillida
- 1988: Jorge Oteiza
- 1989: Oscar Niemeyer
- 1990: Antoni Tàpies
- 1991: Alfredo Kraus, José Carreras, Teresa Berganza, Pilar Lorengar, Plácido Domingo, Montserrat Caballé and Victoria de los Ángeles
- 1992: Roberto Matta
- 1993: Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza
- 1994: Alicia de Larrocha
- 1995: Fernando Fernán-Gómez
- 1996: Joaquín Rodrigo
- 1997: Vittorio Gassmann
- 1998: Sebastião Salgado
- 1999: Santiago Calatrava
- 2000: Barbara Hendricks
- 2001: Krzysztof Penderecki
- 2002: Woody Allen
- 2003: Miquel Barceló
- 2004: Paco de Lucía
- 2005: Maya Plisetskaya and Tamara Rojo
- 2006: Pedro Almodóvar
- 2007: Bob Dylan
- 2008: Sistema de Orquesta Juvenil e Infantil de Venezuela
- 2009: Norman Foster
Communications and Humanities
- 1981: María Zambrano
- 1982: Mario Bunge
- 1983: El País newspaper
- 1984: Claudio Sánchez Albornoz
- 1985: José Ferrater Mora
- 1986: O Globo
- 1987: El Espectador newspaper and El Tiempo newspaper
- 1988: Horacio Sáenz Guerrero
- 1989: Fondo de Cultura Económica and Pedro Laín Entralgo
- 1990: José Simeón Cañas University
- 1991: Luis María Anson
- 1992: Emilio García Gómez
- 1993: Revista Vuelta by Octavio Paz
- 1994: Spanish Missions in Rwanda and Burundi
- 1995: José Luis López Aranguren and EFE Agency
- 1996: Indro Montanelli and Julián Marías
- 1997: CNN and Václav Havel
- 1998: Reinhard Mohn and Somaly Mam
- 1999: Instituto Caro y Cuervo
- 2000: Umberto Eco
- 2001: George Steiner
- 2002: Hans Magnus Enzensberger
- 2003: Ryszard Kapuściński and Gustavo Gutiérrez Merino
- 2004: Jean Daniel
- 2005: Alliance française, Società Dante Alighieri, British Council, Goethe-Institut, Instituto Cervantes and Instituto Camões
- 2006: National Geographic Society
- 2007: Nature and Science journals
- 2008: Google
- 2009: National Autonomous University of Mexico
International Cooperation
- 1981: José López Portillo
- 1982: Enrique V. Iglesias
- 1983: Belisario Betancur
- 1984: Contadora Group
- 1985: Raúl Alfonsín
- 1986: Salamanca University and Coimbra University
- 1987: Javier Pérez de Cuéllar
- 1988: Óscar Arias, Fatiha Boudiaf
- 1989: Jacques Delors and Mikhail Gorbachev
- 1990: Hans Dietrich Genscher
- 1991: UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees)
- 1992: Nelson Mandela and Frederik Willem de Klerk
- 1993: United Nations Blue Berets stationed in Ex-Yugoslavia
- 1994: Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin
- 1995: Mário Soares
- 1996: Helmut Kohl
- 1997: Government of Guatemala and Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity
- 1998: Fatiha Boudiaf, Olayinka Koso-Thomas, Graça Machel, Rigoberta Menchú, Fatana Ishaq Gailani, Emma Bonino and Somaly Mam
- 1999: Pedro Duque, John Glenn, Chiaki Mukai and Valery Polyakov
- 2000: Fernando Henrique Cardoso
- 2001: International Space Station
- 2002: The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
- 2003: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
- 2004: The European Union's Erasmus Programme
- 2005: Simone Veil
- 2006: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
- 2007: Al Gore
- 2008: Ifakara Health Research and Development Centre (Tanzania), Malaria Research and Training Centre (Mali), Kintampo Health Research Centre (Ghana) and Manhiça Centre of Health Research (Mozambique)
- 2009: World Health Organization (WHO)
Literature
- 1981: José Hierro
- 1982: Miguel Delibes and Gonzalo Torrente Ballester
- 1983: Juan Rulfo
- 1984: Pablo García Baena
- 1985: Angel González
- 1986: Mario Vargas Llosa and Rafael Lapesa
- 1987: Camilo José Cela
- 1988: José Angel Valente and Carmen Martín Gaite
- 1989: Ricardo Gullón
- 1990: Arturo Uslar Pietri
- 1991: The people of Puerto Rico
- 1992: Francisco Nieva
- 1993: Claudio Rodríguez
- 1994: Carlos Fuentes
- 1995: Carlos Bousoño
- 1996: Francisco Umbral
- 1997: Alvaro Mutis
- 1998: Francisco Ayala
- 1999: Günter Grass
- 2000: Augusto Monterroso
- 2001: Doris Lessing
- 2002: Arthur Miller
- 2003: Fatema Mernissi and Susan Sontag
- 2004: Claudio Magris
- 2005: Nélida Piñon
- 2006: Paul Auster
- 2007: Amos Oz
- 2008: Margaret Atwood
- 2009: Ismail Kadare
Social Sciences
- 1981: Román Perpiñá
- 1982: Antonio Domínguez Ortiz
- 1983: Julio Caro Baroja
- 1984: Eduardo García de Enterría
- 1985: Ramón Carande Thovar
- 1986: José Luis Pinillos
- 1987: Juan José Linz
- 1988: Luis Díez del Corral and Luis Sánchez Agesta
- 1989: Enrique Fuentes Quintana
- 1990: Rodrigo Uría González
- 1991: Miguel Artola Gallego
- 1992: Juan Velarde Fuertes
- 1993: Silvio Zavala
- 1994: Aurelio Menéndez Menéndez
- 1995: Joaquim Veríssimio Serrão
- 1996: John Huxtable Elliott
- 1997: Martín de Riquer Morera
- 1998: Jacques Santer and Pierre Werner
- 1999: Raymond Carr
- 2000: Carlo Maria Martini
- 2001: The Colegio de México and Juan Iglesias Santos
- 2002: Anthony Giddens
- 2003: Jürgen Habermas
- 2004: Paul Krugman
- 2005: Giovanni Sartori
- 2006: Mary Robinson
- 2007: Ralf Dahrendorf
- 2008: Tzvetan Todorov
- 2009: David Attenborough
Sports
- 1987: Sebastian Coe
- 1988: Juan Antonio Samaranch
- 1989: Severiano Ballesteros
- 1990: Alfonso "Sito" Pons
- 1991: Sergey Bubka
- 1992: Miguel Indurain
- 1993: Javier Sotomayor
- 1994: Martina Navratilova
- 1995: Hassiba Boulmerka
- 1996: Carl Lewis
- 1997: Spanish Marathon team
- 1998: Arantxa Sánchez Vicario
- 1999: Steffi Graf
- 2000: Lance Armstrong
- 2001: Manuel Estiarte
- 2002: Brazil national football team
- 2003: The Tour de France
- 2004: Hicham El Guerrouj
- 2005: Fernando Alonso
- 2006: Spanish Basketball Team
- 2007: Michael Schumacher
- 2008: Rafael Nadal
- 2009: Yelena Isinbayeva
Technical and Scientific Research
- 1981: Alberto Sols
- 1982: Manuel Ballester
- 1983: Luis Antonio Santaló
- 1984: Antonio García Bellido
- 1985: Emilio Rosenblueth and David Vázquez Martínez
- 1986: Antonio González González
- 1987: Pablo Rudomín and Jacinto Convit
- 1988: Manuel Cardona and Marcos Moshinsky
- 1989: Guido Münch
- 1990: Salvador Moncada and Santiago Grisolía
- 1991: Francisco Bolívar Zapata
- 1992: Federico García Moliner
- 1993: Amable Liñán
- 1994: Manuel Patarroyo
- 1995: Manuel Losada Villasante and Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad of Costa Rica
- 1996: Valentín Fuster
- 1997: Atapuerca research team
- 1998: Emilio Méndez Pérez and Pedro Miguel Etxenike Landiríbar
- 1999: Ricardo Miledi and Enrique Moreno González
- 2000: Luc Montagnier and Robert Gallo
- 2001: Craig Venter, John Sulston, Hamilton Smith, Francis Collins and Jean Weissenbach
- 2002: Robert E. Kahn, Vinton Cerf, Tim Berners-Lee and Lawrence Roberts
- 2003: Jane Goodall
- 2004: Judah Folkman, Tony Hunter, Joan Massagué Solé, Bert Vogelstein and Robert Weinberg
- 2005: Antonio Damasio
- 2006: Juan Ignacio Cirac
- 2007: Ginés Morata Pérez and Peter Lawrence
- 2008: Sumio Iijima, Shuji Nakamura, Robert Langer, George M. Whitesides and Tobin Marks
- 2009: Martin Cooper and Raymond Tomlinson
Concord
- 1986: Vicaría de la Solidaridad (Chile)
- 1987: Villa El Salvador
- 1988: International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources and World Wild Fund for Nature
- 1989: Stephen Hawking
- 1990: Sephardic Communities
- 1991: Medicus Mundi and Médecins Sans Frontières
- 1992: American Foundation for AIDS Research (AMFAR)
- 1993: Coordinadora Gesto por la Paz in the Basque Country
- 1994: Save the Children, National Movement of Street Children and Messengers of Peace
- 1995: H.M. Hussein I, king of Jordan
- 1996: Adolfo Suárez
- 1997: Yehudi Menuhin and Mstislav Rostropovich
- 1998: Nicolás Castellanos, Vicente Ferrer, Joaquín Sanz Gadea and Muhammad Yunus
- 1999: Caritas Española
- 2000: Royal Spanish Academy and Association of Academies of the Spanish Language
- 2001: World Network of Biosphere Reserves
- 2002: Daniel Barenboim and Edward Said
- 2003: J. K. Rowling
- 2004: The Way of St. James
- 2005: Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul
- 2006: UNICEF
- 2007: Yad Vashem
- 2008: Ingrid Betancourt
- 2009: The City of Berlin
See also
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References
- ^ Prince of Asturias Foundation, official website (in English)
External links
- Prince of Asturias Awards, official website (in English)