PRINCE OF ASTURIAS AWARDS LAUREATES FOR COMMUNICATION AND HUMANITIES
The award will be bestowed to the individual, institution or group of individuals or institutions whose creative work or research in humanistic activities as a whole or in relation to the social communication media, within the framework of the sciences and disciplines that both activities comprise, represents a significant contribution to universal culture.
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2011
The Royal Society
Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities
The Royal Society is the longest-standing scientific community in existence in the world and the most prestigious institution of human knowledge in the history of Great Britain.
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2010
Alain Touraine and Zygmunt Bauman
Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities
Considered two of the highest representatives of current European thought, Alain Touraine and Zygmunt Bauman have analysed the deep transformations of contemporary social structures.
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2009
The National Autonomous University of Mexico
Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities
Its close to 300.000 students and over 34,000 professors and researchers make the UNAM the largest university in Ibero-America.
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2008
Google
Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities
By instantly and selectively making the enormous flood of information on the Internet available to hundreds of millions of people.
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2007
Journals Nature and Science
Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities
Both weekly publications represent the most reliable channel of communication that the international scientific community has today for reporting.
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2006
National Geographic Society
Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities
has played a crucial role throughout its history in exploring and discovering the Earth
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2005
Big European Cultural Institutes
Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities
Alliance Française (France), Società Dante Alighieri (Italy), British Council (United Kingdom), Goethe Institut (Germany), Instituto Cervantes (Spain) and Instituto Camões (Portugal).
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2004
Jean Daniel
Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities
Jean Daniel is a figurehead of a journalism committed to truthfulness and independence from political pressure
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2003
Ryszard Kapuściński, Gustavo Gutiérrez Merino
Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities
The Jury considers that Gustavo Gutiérrez and Ryszard Kapuscinski are both admirable ethical role-models of tolerance and profound humanism.
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2002
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities
The Jury also values the author´s links with Hispanic culture.
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2001
George Steiner
Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities
Dreams are the neutral ground of contradictions.
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2000
Umberto Eco
Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities
intellectual qualities of Professor Umberto Eco in the field of communication and humanities.
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1999
Instituto Caro y Cuervo
Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities
Which has done outstanding work aimed at knowing, studying and promoting Spanish
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1998
Reinhard Mohn
Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities
His capacity to envision and organise an integrated, participatory business model in the area of communications and the humanities.
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1997
Václav Havel and Cable News Network (CNN)
Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities
Poet, playwright and essayist, has incorporated moral principles into politics while making a steady and practical appeal to civil commitments above ideological ones.
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1996
Indro Montanelli y Julián Marías Aguilera.
Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities
To the clarity and meticulousness of his books and essays, we must also add extensive journalistic work in research and publication.
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1995
EFE Agency and José Luis López Aranguren
Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities
The EFE Agency has established itself as one of the major international news agencies. José Luis López Aranguren has created a broad school of thought and has been able to reach out with his ethical guidance.
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1994
Spanish Missions in Rwanda and Burundi
Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities
Spanish Missions in Rwanda and Burundi have moved public opinion deeply, reporting, at great risk, the tragedy of Rwanda.
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1993
'Vuelta' the Review, headed by Octavio Paz
Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities
The magazine Vuelta now constitutes one of the most genuine and rigorous expressions of both Latin-American and Spanish though and literary creation.
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1992
Emilio García Gómez
Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities
His indisputable influence as a teacher within the world of Arabic.
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1991
Luis María Anson
Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities
Por his important work as editor of the ABC daily newspaper and the hundred-year-old magazine, Blanco y Negro.
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1990
Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas
Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities
These supreme values, in defence of which its teaching staff have borne witness heroically.
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1989
Pedro Laín Entralgo Fondo de Cultura Económica de México
Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities
In granting the Award for Communications to the Mexican Economic Culture Fund they acknowledge the importance.
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1988
Horacio Saénz Guerrero
Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities
He subsequently began his period as a special correspondent. As such he lived in the United States.
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1987
Diario "El Espectador" y Diario "El Tiempo"
Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities
The Jury wishes thus to highlight the role of the media as spokesmen and defenders of the noblest demands of civil society.
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1986
The "O Globo" Communications Group
Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities
The Jury gave full consideration to the important work of communication carried out by this Brazilian organization in the field of press, radio and television in the Latin-American world.
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1985
José Ferrater Mora
Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities
In recognition of his efforts to integrate the world of communications and humanities with that of the clarification and dissemination of philosophical ideas.
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1984
Claudio Sánchez Albornoz
Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities
For an exemplary life completely dedicated to the service of Spain and the Spaniards, from his intellectual commitment to politics.
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1983
Diario El País
Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities
The outstanding qualities of this publication are the comprehensiveness and capacity of interpretation of its reports and comment, the high quality of its cultural works.
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1982
Mario Augusto Bunge
Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities
Has contributed to analysis and laying the theoretical foundations in the field of Natural and Social Sciences with a long series of works.
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1981
María Zambrano Alarcón
Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities
For her long philosophical and literary labours of more than half a century.