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Recognition given to those who develop an outstanding work for the benefit of humanity, which also allows strengthening research or actions in favor of society.

Visual artist, architect, and filmmaker, the work of Alfredo Jaar - National Prize of Plastic Arts 2013 - is characterized by showing the international reality about refugees, immigration conflicts, racism, and pollution, as well as social and geopolitical crises.

Commercial Engineer, PhD in Economics and Master of the University of Chicago, he is recognized both in Chile and abroad for his valuable contribution to the development of economic sciences from a social perspective. Throughout his career, he has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Oxford, Boston, and Complutense of Madrid, and at institutes in Spain, France, Italy, and Sweden.

He completed his doctoral studies at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, and his post-doctoral studies at the University of Wisconsin, United States. His experience as a plant geneticist has enabled him to make important contributions to the strengthening of Indian agriculture and the conservation and improvement of natural resources.

He is a prominent Chilean lawyer expert in Criminal Law, a specialization in which he has stood out throughout his professional career and on which he has written various books, papers, and publications, thus contributing to the scientific and cultural development of the country in the field of criminal sciences.

Considered one of the most important prizes in Latin America, this distinction has been awarded since 2001 by the University to recognize the contribution and career of Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking writers.

Creator of a daring, disturbing and original literary project, Mario Bellatín is considered one of the most emblematic contemporary Latin American experimental writers, characteristics that led UTalca to distinguish his work.

Chilean poet. His work stands out for its rupturist style, which questions existential and social reality, and through which he exposes identity themes linked to lethargy, desolation, and human rights violations. His work has earned him recognitions as the National Prize for Literature and the Pablo Neruda Ibero-American Poetry Prize.

Outstanding Colombian writer whose varied literary production travels through genres such as novel, short story, poem, prose, essay and literary criticism. Part of his work addresses, from a perspective far from sensationalism, the violence and social reality of his native country.

Guatemalan narrator, essayist, and translator, considered one of the most promising figures of Ibero-American writing. He stands out for its exceptional handling of brevity, ellipsis, and open endings.

Based on strong traditions of the Brazilian culture, his country of origin, this poet, novelist, short story writer, and essayist has made significant contributions to Latin American thought and literary creation. Their texts propose an original thought about identities, minority, and gender relations, building bridges between diverse cultural contexts in an integrating perspective.

He was a Chilean writer, chronicler, and plastic artist who achieved great international recognition during his lifetime. His work mainly addresses issues associated with marginality, homosexuality, politics, and discrimination, with some autobiographical references, through a rupturist, tragicomic, and combative style.

Mexican writer and journalist. His work is focused on various topics such as sports, music, film, and literature. He has developed theater scripts, as well as permanent op ed pieces in various media in Latin America.

Nicaraguan writer, lawyer, and journalist, with a prolific career that, to date, adds more than forty writings, including novels, essays, and books, which have been translated into more than 15 languages. The impact achieved by his work led him to receive the Cervantes Prize in 2017.

With a degree in Literature, she is one of the founders of the Art Actions Collective (CADA by its acronym in Spanish). She is recognized as the author of one of the most far-reaching narrative projects of the contemporary Chilean novel, as well as for making a theoretical, aesthetic, social, and political proposal from a new reading perspective.

Belonging to the so-called 'Crack Generation', Mexican literary movement of the late 20th century that broke with 'postmodern literature', the author has developed a literary career that trespasses generic boundaries, using essays, chronicles, journalistic articles, and even scientific language.

Spanish writer, novelist, and editor, whose life has been devoted to literature. Among his works, multiple articles, essays, anthologies, stories, and novels stand out. They have been translated into 40 languages ​​and published in 50 countries .

Cuban poet, narrator, essayist, ethnologist, and politician. He is considered the creator of a new genre, the 'testimonial novel', as reflected in works such as the 'Biography of a Bivouac' ('Biografía de un cimarrón'), 'The Song of Rachel' (La canción de Rachel'), 'Galician' ('Gallego'), and 'The Real Life' ('La vida real').

He is a doctor specialized in Psychiatry. He participated in the last phase of Angola's colonial liberation war, a recurrent theme in many of his books, where there is also an evident criticism of the identity of his country, Portugal, a characteristic that cuts across his entire work. Currently, he is devoted to literature and journalism.

Argentine professor, narrator, literary critic, and screenwriter who gained proficiency in diverse genres and language registers. This talent allowed him to approach Latin American historical experience with the accuracy and knowledge of the essayist, but also with the art and imagination of the narrator.

He was a poet, journalist, chronicler, screenwriter, professor, and translator, who belonged to the so-called 'Generation of 1960' of Peruvian literature. His work, which enabled the renewal of Latin American poetry, gave an account of urban reality, showing the contradictions and difficulties of life in the region.

Chilean writer whose work is framed within the narrative of the Latin American postboom. Her creations -which have been adapted to cinema and also translated into 42 languages- have helped to give room to the female voice that had been marginalized in previous literature, while in the 80s she made a great impact by disseminating an image of Chile opposed to the versions portrayed by the military dictatorship that governed the country during that period.

Argentine academic, narrator and, essayist, whose work stands out for quality, expressive vivacity, grace, and mastery of all literary aspects. In addition, she has publications in the field of popular sentimental literature, history of journalism and mass media, cinema and mass culture in relation to artistic production, as well as the role of intellectuals.

He was a renowned Mexican poet, narrator, essayist, literary critic, translator and journalist whose work stood out for his chronicles, novels, short stories, and poetry. His writing was characterized by a constant questioning of life in the modern world, literature, and his own artistic production.