San Clemente Literary Prize

San Clemente Literary Prize, complete name Archbishop Xoán de San Clemente Prize, commercially known as San Clemente Rosalía-Abanca Prize , is an award with a financial endowment that is given annually in Santiago de Compostela and distinguishes works of narrative in Galician language, Spanish and other foreign literature.

Delivery of the XIV edition at the Abanca auditorium in Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, on March 20, 2019.

History and characteristics

The jury for this award is made up of high school students from IES Rosalía de Castro in Santiago de Compostela and four other institutes in Galicia, ramdolmly chosen. Sometimes high-schools from other parts of Spain or Portugal have also participated.

It wants to promote reading among young people. The award in 2015 was 9,000 euros for the best novel of the year in each category: Galician novel, Spanish novel, Foreign Language novel.

The first edition of the award was in 1995.

The only writers awarded more than once are Pedro Feijoo (Vigo, Galicia), Javier Cercas (Catalonia) and Colm Tóibín (Ireland).

List of winners

Edition	Year	Galician Language Novel	Spanish Language Novel	Foreign Language Novel
I	1995	Suso de Toro, Tic-Tac	Mario Vargas Llosa, Lituma en los Andes	Tariq Ali, Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree
II	1996	Xurxo Borrazás, Criminal	Javier Marías, Mañana en la batalla piensa en mí	Jostein Gaarder, Sofies verden
III	1997	Miguel Anxo Murado, Ruído Aníbal Malvar, Unha noite con Carla (ex aequo)	Antonio Soler, Los héroes de la frontera	Antonio Tabucchi Sostiene Pereira
IV	1999	Gonzalo Navaza, Erros e Tánatos	Jaime Bayly, Los últimos días de “La Prensa”	José Saramago, Ensaio sobre a cegueira
V	1999	Manuel Rivas, O lapis do carpinteiro	Carmen Martín Gaite, Irse de casa	Alessandro Baricco, Castelli di rabbia
VI	2001	Xelís de Toro, Os saltimbanquis no paraíso	Hernán Rivera Letelier, Fatamorgana con banda de música	Paul Auster, Timbuktu
VII	2003	Bento da Cruz, A Loba	Manuel de Lope La sangre ajena	Milan Kundera, L'ignorance
VIII	2003	Marilar Aleixandre, Teoría do caos	Laura Restrepo, Leopardo al sol	Amélie Nothomb, Méthaphysique des tubes
IX	2004	Rosa Aneiros, Resistencia	Almudena Grandes, Los aires difíciles	Jonathan Coe, The Rotters' Club
X	2005	Pilar Buela, Ácaros verdes	Carlos Fuentes, La silla del águila	Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
XI	2006	Teresa Moure, A xeira das árbores	Álvaro Pombo, Una ventana al norte	Melania G. Mazzucco, Vita
XII	2007	Isidro Novo, Un escuro rumor tralo silencio	Javier Cercas, La velocidad de la luz	Abraham B. Yehoshua, Hakalá hameshajreret
XIII	2009	María Reimóndez , O Club da Calceta	Vicente Molina Foix , El abrecartas	Haruki Murakami, Umibe no Kafuka
XIV	2009	Anxos Sumai, Así nacen as baleas	Luis Landero, Hoy, Júpiter	Julian Barnes, Artur & George
XV	2010	Inma López Silva, Memoria de Cidades sen luz	Ignacio Martínez de Pisón, Dientes de leche	Henning Mankell , Kinesen
XVI	2011	An Alfaya, Areaquente	William Ospina, El país de la canela	Erri De Luca, Il giorno prima della felicità
XVII	2012	Xulia Alonso, Futuro imperfecto	Eduardo Mendoza, Riña de gatos	Colm Tóibín, Brooklyn
XVIII	2013	Xavier Queipo, Extramunde	Marina Mayoral, Deseos	Peter Stamm, Sieben Jahre
XIX	2014	Pedro Feijoo, Os fillos do mar	Arturo Pérez-Reverte,  El tango de la guardia vieja	Petros Márkaris , Pereosi
XX	2015	Carlos G. Reigosa,  A Vitoria do perdedor	Juan Gabriel Vásquez , Las reputaciones	Jöel Dicker , La vérite sur l'affaire Harry Quebert
XXI	2016	Pedro Feijoo, A memoria da choiva	Javier Cercas, El Impostor	Colm Tóibín, The testament of Mary
XXII	2017	Xabier Quiroga, Izan o da saca	Sara Mesa, Cicatriz	Pierre Lemaitre, Irène
XXIII	2018	Xosé Monteagudo, Todo canto fomos	Fernando Aramburu, Patria	Ralf Rothmann, Im Frühling sterben
XXIV	2019	Marcos Calveiro, O xardineiro dos ingleses	Pedro Mairal, La uruguaya	Han Kang, 채식주의자 (A vexetariana)

Other websites

• Award website