Prince of Asturias Awards

The Prince of Asturias Awards (Spanish: "Premios Príncipe de Asturias", Asturian: "Premios Príncipe d'Asturies") is a series of prestigious annual prizes given in Spain by the Fundación Príncipe de Asturias to individuals, entities, organizations or others from around the world who make notable achievements in the sciences, humanities, or public affairs. The awards are presented in Oviedo, the capital of the Principality of Asturias at a ceremony presided by Felipe, Prince of Asturias. The Prince of Asturias Awards were established in 1981. A sculpture expressly created by Spanish sculptor Joan Miró is presented to the yearly recipients.

Categories

Arts

*1981: Jesús López Cobos
*1982: Pablo Serrano
*1983: Eusebio Sempere
*1984: Orfeón Donostiarra
*1985: Antonio López García
*1986: Luis García Berlanga
*1987: Eduardo Chillida
*1988: Jorge Oteiza
*1989: Oscar Niemeyer
*1990: Antonio Tàpies
*1991: Alfredo Kraus, José Carreras, Teresa Berganza, Pilar Lorengar, Plácido Domingo, Montserrat Caballé and Victoria de los Angeles
*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

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"
*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
*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

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
*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)

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

ocial 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

ports

*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

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 National Biodiversity Institute 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

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 Saint James
*2005: The Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul
*2006: UNICEF
*2007: Yad Vashem
*2008: Ingrid Betancourt

ee also

* List of awards
* Prizes named after people

External links

* [http://www.fpa.es/ing/ Prince of Asturias Awards] , official website (in English)
* [http://www.fundacionprincipedeasturias.es/ing/ Prince of Asturias Foundation] , official website (in English)