America Award in Literature

America Award winners[edit]

• 1994 – Aimé Cesaire [Martinique] 1913
• 1995 – Harold Pinter [England] 1930
• 1996 – José Donoso [Chile] 1924-1996 (awarded prior to his death)
• 1997 – Friederike Mayröcker [Austria] 1924
• 1998 – Rafael Alberti [Spain] 1902-1998 (awarded prior to his death)
• 1999 – Jacques Roubaud [France] 1932
• 2000 – Eudora Welty [USA] 1909-2001
• 2001 – Inger Christensen [Denmark] 1935
• 2002 – Peter Handke [Austria] 1942
• 2003 – Adonis [Syria/Lebanon] 1930
• 2004 – José Saramago [Portugal] 1922
• 2005 – Andrea Zanzotto [Italy] 1921-2011
• 2006 – Julien Gracq (Louis Poirier) [France] 1910
• 2007 – Paavo Haavikko [Finland] 1931
• 2008 – John Ashbery [USA] 1927
• 2009 – Günter Kunert [GDR/Germany] 1929
• 2010 – Javier Marías [Spain] 1951
• 2011 – Ko Un [South Korea] 1933
• 2012 – Ivo Michiels [Belgium] 1923
• 2013 – Reiner Kunze [GDR/Germany] 1933
• 2014 – László Krasznahorkai [Hungary] 1954