Mia Couto's award recognizes his long career as one of the leading writers in Portuguese-language literature. Drawing on his background in biology and a distinctive use of local vocabulary, he has explored identity, memory, and the meeting points between cultures.

A writer whose body of work has expanded the linguistic range and imagination of Mozambique.

Mircea Cărtărescu's award recognizes his entire career across poetry, novels, essays, and criticism. Working from Bucharest, he has built an international reputation through large-scale fiction that weaves together dreams, memory, and bodily sensation.

A writer who has pushed the boundaries of reality through both poetry and fiction.

Diamela Eltit's award recognizes her entire career across novels, testimonial writing, and essays. Drawing on Chile's political and social experience, she has used experimental narrative to examine the relationship between the body and power.

A writer who continues to explore the tension between power and the body through experimental narrative.

植民地時代末期のアフリカ（アンゴラ等）を背景に、個人の記憶と歴史の傷痕を描く長篇。植民地的経験と道徳的葛藤を通じてポスト植民地的な問いを投げかける代表作のひとつ。

植民地時代末期のアフリカ（アンゴラ等）を背景に、個人の記憶と歴史の傷痕を描く長篇。

An award honoring David Huerta’s representative poetic achievement.

Premio FIL de Literatura en Lenguas Romances 2018 is a Spanish-language booklet published for Ida Vitale's award year. It presents her poetry through its power to renew tradition, its experience of exile, and its lucid intelligence that makes everyday things appear from a fresh angle.

A booklet that frames Vitale's poetry as a bridge between tradition and modernity in her award year.

実在の事件を素材にしたノンフィクション的長篇で、主人公の偽りの生活とその崩壊を追う。事実と文学的描写を組み合わせ、アイデンティティと欺瞞の問題を深く掘り下げる。

実在の事件を素材にしたノンフィクション的長篇で、主人公の偽りの生活とその崩壊を追う。

A memoir-like work about exile, memory, political repression, and personal dignity. It connects individual experience with twentieth-century Eastern European history and revisits the past through literature.

A work that traces the memory of exile through literature.

A metafiction that traces a lineage of writers who refuse to write. Through layered references to literary history, it reconsiders the impulse to create.

A literary novel about writers who refuse to write.

A landmark poetry collection that explores the relation between image and being, moving through loss, memory, the body, and absence in tightly compressed language. It serves as an early point of departure for Bonnefoy's poetic thought, tracing the outline of the world with quiet intensity.

It measures the shape of loss at the edge of language.

Seen through the eyes of a boy raised in privilege, the novel traces the contradictions and class consciousness of upper-class Peruvian society. Humor and irony let an innocent gaze expose the imbalances of the adult world.

The child’s gaze is innocent, but the society it reveals is startlingly complex and cold.

Set in 1990s Medellín, the novel follows an older narrator whose relationship with a young assassin becomes a dark meditation on violence and loneliness.

A provocative novel about violence in Medellín.

Margo Glantz received the 2010 FIL Literary Award in recognition of her long body of work across experimental prose and criticism.

The prize honors an entire literary trajectory rather than a single book.

Rafael Cadenas is honored for a lifetime of poetry that combines formal rigor with ethical reflection and a deep sensitivity to language.

A lifetime achievement award for a major poetic career.

A lifetime honor for António Lobo Antunes's long career in fiction. His inward monologues and depictions of colonial war, memory, and trauma made him one of the defining Portuguese-language novelists of his generation.

A lifetime honor for António Lobo Antunes's long career in fiction.

A lifetime honor recognizing Fernando del Paso's ambitious fiction and stylistic experimentation. His novels rework Mexican history through layered memory and inventive narration.

A lifetime honor recognizing Fernando del Paso's ambitious fiction and stylistic experimentation.

A lifetime honor for Carlos Monsiváis's essays and cultural criticism. He captured Mexican urban life with wit, political bite, and a broad historical view.

A lifetime honor for Carlos Monsiváis's essays and cultural criticism.

A lifetime honor for Tomas Segovia's poetry, translation, and criticism. His work bridges languages and traditions through lyric precision and intellectual curiosity.

A lifetime honor for Tomas Segovia's poetry, translation, and criticism.

A lifetime honor recognizing Juan Goytisolo's critical and experimental body of work. His fiction and essays brought exile, cultural criticism, and formal invention into a distinctive modern voice.

A lifetime honor recognizing Juan Goytisolo's critical and experimental body of work.

Cintio Vitier's award honors a lifetime devoted to Cuban poetry, criticism, and scholarship on José Martí.

A writer and thinker who linked poetry, criticism, and Cuban intellectual history.

Juan García Ponce's award recognizes a career that crossed novels, essays, and criticism to explore desire, the city, and art.

A key figure in modern Mexican literature who moved between fiction and criticism.

Juan Gelman's award honors a body of poetry shaped by exile, political violence, and family loss.

An Argentine poet who turned exile and memory into poetry.

Sergio Pitol's award recognizes work that moves across novels, travel writing, and translation, shaped by memory and literary self-awareness.

A writer who expanded his literary world through travel and translation.

This lifetime achievement award honors Olga Orozco for poetry rich in dreamlike imagery, surrealism, and mystery.

This lifetime achievement award honors Olga Orozco for poetry rich in dreamlike imagery, surrealism, and mystery.

Juan Marsé's award is a lifetime recognition for novels that probe postwar Barcelona, class, memory, and city life.

A novelist who kept returning to postwar Barcelona.

The award recognized Nélida Piñon's whole body of work in Brazilian Portuguese literature.

Rather than a single book, the prize honors an oeuvre that moves across the Portuguese-speaking world.

Julio Ramón Ribeyro's award recognizes a lifetime body of work centered on short fiction that depicts urban alienation and human frustration.

A major Peruvian short-story writer of urban loneliness and failure.

Eliseo Diego's award recognizes lyrical, memory-laden poetry together with a wide literary practice that included translation and criticism.

A major Cuban poet who wove memory and lyricism into his work.

Juan José Arreola's award honors a body of work spanning short fiction, fables, and essays, marked by a distinctive blend of fantasy and humor.

A writer who refreshed Mexican literature through short fiction and fable.

Nicanor Parra's award recognizes a long career that reshaped Latin American poetry through colloquial verse and antipoetry.

A poet who used colloquial speech and irony to break poetic convention.