Miguel de Cervantes Prize - Potential Candidates

Potential Candidates

The following is a list of well-known and lesser known writers whose literary work has generated enough verifiable media attention in journals, newspapers and the blogosphere to be potential future Cervantes Prize winners.

This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

1. Francisco Nieva (born December 29, 1924, Spanish)
2. Ernesto Cardenal (born January 20, 1925, Nicaraguan)
3. Gabriel García Márquez (born March 6, 1927, Colombian) (+)
4. Juan Goytisolo (born January 6, 1931, Spanish)
5. Fernando Arrabal (born August 11, 1932, Spanish)
6. Javier Marías (born September 20, 1951, Spanish)

• (+) The writer, declined to be considered for the award.