List of Spanish Nobel laureates

Since 1904, seven people born in Spain and one naturalized citizen of Spain have been awarded the Nobel Prize - six in the field of literature and two in medicine.[1] Severo Ochoa was born in Spain, but he renounced his Spanish citizenship years before receiving the Nobel prize, to become an American citizen. The latest winner, Mario Vargas Llosa, is a Peruvian-Spanish dual national (he was not born in Spain, but he acquired Spanish citizenship in 1993). To date, only one Spanish citizen has received the Nobel prize in a scientific discipline (Santiago Ramon y Cajal, Medicine, 1906).

Laureates

YearImageWinnerFieldContribution
1904 José Echegaray Literature "in recognition of the numerous and brilliant compositions which, in an individual and original manner, have revived the great traditions of the Spanish drama"
1906 Santiago Ramón y Cajal Medicine "in recognition of their work on the structure of the nervous system"
1922 Jacinto Benavente Literature "for the happy manner in which he has continued the illustrious traditions of the Spanish drama"
1956 Juan Ramón Jiménez Literature "for his lyrical poetry, which in Spanish language constitutes an example of high spirit and artistical purity"
1959 Severo Ochoa Medicine "for their discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid"
1977 Vicente Aleixandre Literature "for a creative poetic writing which illuminates man's condition in the cosmos and in present-day society, at the same time representing the great renewal of the traditions of Spanish poetry between the wars"
1989 Camilo José Cela Literature "for a rich and intensive prose, which with restrained compassion forms a challenging vision of man's vulnerability"
2010 Mario Vargas Llosa Literature "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat"

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Nobel Laureates and Country of Birth". www.nobelprize.org. Archived from the original on 2013-09-17.
  2. ↑ Saramago, José (1999). Tore Frängsmyr (ed.). "Nobel Prize in Literature 1998". NobelPrize.org. Stockholm: Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 12 May 2026. In consequence of the Portuguese government censorship of The Gospel According to Jesus Christ (1991), vetoing its presentation for the European Literary Prize under the pretext that the book was offensive to Catholics, my wife and I transferred our residence to the island of Lanzarote in the Canaries.
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