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.

## 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