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The Awards in facts and figures

Upsdated: 25th June 2024

Dates of the Award Ceremonies

Dates of the Award Ceremonies
  • 3 October 1981
  • 2 October 1982
  • 8 October 1983
  • 16 October 1984
  • 5 October 1985
  • 22 November 1986
  • 29 October 1987
  • 15 October 1988
  • 21 October 1989
  • 18 October 1990
  • 18 October 1991
  • 31 October 1992
  • 27 November 1993
  • 24 November 1994
  • 27 October 1995
  • 8 November 1996
  • 24 October 1997
  • 23 October 1998
  • 22 October 1999
  • 27 October 2000
  • 26 October 2001
  • 25 October 2002
  • 24 October 2003
  • 22 October 2004
  • 21 October 2005
  • 20 October 2006
  • 26 October 2007
  • 24 October 2008
  • 23 October 2009
  • 22 October 2010
  • 21 October 2011
  • 26 October 2012
  • 25 October 2013
  • 24 October 2014
  • 23 October 2015
  • 21 October 2016
  • 20 October 2017
  • 19 October 2018
  • 18 October 2019
  • 16 October 2020
  • 22 October 2021
  • 28 October 2022
  • 20 October 2023
  

Number of laureates

Princess of Asturias Award Sculpture

  • 464People and institutions laureates
  • 69Female laureates
  • 286Male laureates
  • 109Institutional laureates
  • 259Awards to individuals
  • 70Shared awards

Countries

Laureates comprising 67 nationalities

Spain 148
United States of America 87
United Kingdom 34
International 27
France 23
Mexico 19
Germany 15
Italy 14
Canada 10
Brazil 8
Colombia 8
Argentina 7
Poland 7
Israel 6
Japan 6
Portugal 5
Russia 5
Guatemala 4
Peru 4
Venezuela 4
Cuba 3
South Africa 3
Algeria 2
Belgium 2
Chile 2
Costa Rica 2
Honduras 2
Irland 2
Kenya 2
Luxembourg 2
Morocco 2
Mozambique 2
Palestine 2
Czech Republic 2
Sweden 2
Turkey 2
Afghanistan 1
Albany 1
Australia 1
Austria 1
Bangladesh 1
Bulgary 1
Cambodia 1
China 1
Congo 1
Ethiopia 1
El Salvador 1
Ghana 1
Hungary 1
India 1
Iran 1
Jordan 1
Denmark 1
Lebanon 1
Mali 1
Niger 1
Nigeria 1
New Zealand 1
Netherlands 1
North Macedonia 1
Panama 1
Puerto Rico 1
Romania 1
Serbia 1
Switzerland 1
Tanzania 1
Ukraine 1
Uruguay 1
Zambia 1
  • > 100
  • 51 - 100
  • 21 - 50
  • 10 - 20
  •  < 10

SpeechesUp to 2023

144 Speeches 13 Languages

  • Albanese 1
  • German 6
  • Czech 1
  • Spanish 65
  • French 11
  • Hebrew 2
  • English 46
  • Italian 4
  • Japanese 1
  • Ladin1
  • Polish 2
  • Portuguese 3
  • Russian 1

Most numerous awards in terms of representatives on the stage

    • 23 Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) and the Academies of the Spanish Language.
    • 16 Spanish health workers on the front line against COVID-19.
    • 13 Spanish National Football Squad.
      Yad Vashem.
      Spanish National Basketball Team.
    • 12 Association for Peace in the Basque Country.
      Sephardic Communities.
    • 9 UN Blue Berets stationed in ex-Yugoslavia.
    • 8 Manhiça Health Research Centre, Ifakara Health Institute in Tanzania, Malaria Research and Training Center and Kintampo Health Research Centre.
      World Network of Biosphere Reserves.
    • 7 Katalin Karikó, Drew Weissman, Philip Felgner, Uğur Şahin, Özlem Türeci, Derrick Rossi and Sarah Gilbert.
      Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul.
      Emma Bonino, Olayinka Koso-Thomas, Graça Machel, Fatiha Boudiaf, Rigoberta Menchú, Fatana Ishaq Gailani and Somaly Mam.
      Tour de France.
      World Health Organization.
    • 6 Wikipedia.
      Fulbright Program.
      Alliance Française, Società Dante Alighieri, British Council, Goethe Institut, Instituto Cervantes and Instituto Camões.
      Spanish Marathon Team.
      Spanish Missions in Rwanda and Burundi.
      Brazilian Football Squad.
      Hospitaller Order of St John of God.
      All Blacks.

Evolution of the stage

The staging for the Awards Ceremony has evolved over the years. The latest changes were made in 2021, when work was carried out to reorder, update and enhance the visual elements that act as signs of identity of the ceremony itself. Moreover, one of the considerations when manufacturing the materials employed was to produce the least possible environmental impact..

Members of the juries
1981 - 2023

Chart with the genders of the jurors of the Princess of Asturias Awards
Jury Members of the Princess of Asturias Awards

Sculpture

Princess of Asturias Award Sculpture

What does the sculpture represent?

The sculpture symbolizes the triumph of the most exalted human values, represented by the recurrent elements of Miró's iconography. .

Artist: Joan Miró

Barcelona 1893 - Palma de Mallorca 1983

Joan Miró is considered one of the leading artists of the 20th century. He experimented with different styles such as fauvism and cubism in his early works. In the 1920s, he moved to Paris, where he became friends with Picasso and was decisively influenced by the Surrealist writers, a concept he subsequently applied to painting. His work evolved, with shapes and figures gradually being reduced to points, lines and abundant expressions of colour that represent his classic iconographic repertory: women, birds, stars, the sun... and so on. In the late 1950s, he began a series of large murals and turned his artistic gaze first towards ceramics and subsequently towards sculpture, with which he once again garnered international recognition, with successive shows in Paris, New York, London, Tokyo and Barcelona. His work can nowadays be found in the world's major art galleries.

Joan Miró with the sculpture of the Princess of Asturias Awards

Why is the sculpture not presented to the laureates at the Awards Ceremony?

The sculpture weighs about eight kilograms, which is the reason why it is subsequently sent to each respective laureate.

Where is it made?

At the Parellada Foundry in Barcelona, at the express wish of Joan Miró. .

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