Every novel to win the Rómulo Gallegos Prize
The top 3 according to 1 vote: Terra Nostra – Carlos Fuentes (1977) · La casa verde – Mario Vargas Llosa (1967) · Cien años de soledad – Gabriel García Márquez (1972). (Updated Sep 17, 2026.)
Created in Venezuela in 1964 and first awarded in 1967 to Vargas Llosa's The Green House, the Rómulo Gallegos International Novel Prize later went to One Hundred Years of Solitude, Terra Nostra and The Savage Detectives. These are all its winning novels, with author and country. Argentina and Colombia have five wins each.
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Top 21
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Terra Nostra – Carlos Fuentes (1977)
Edition III. Mexico.
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La casa verde – Mario Vargas Llosa (1967)
Edition I. Peru. The first edition of the prize.
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Cien años de soledad – Gabriel García Márquez (1972)
Edition II. Colombia. The quintessential novel of magical realism.
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Palinuro de México – Fernando del Paso (1982)
Edition IV. Mexico.
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Los perros del paraíso – Abel Posse (1987)
Edition V. Argentina.
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La casa de las dos palmas – Manuel Mejía Vallejo (1989)
Edition VI. Colombia.
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La visita en el tiempo – Arturo Uslar Pietri (1991)
Edition VII. Venezuela.
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Santo oficio de la memoria – Mempo Giardinelli (1993)
Edition VIII. Argentina.
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9
Mañana en la batalla piensa en mí – Javier Marías (1995)
Edition IX. Spain.
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10
Mal de amores – Ángeles Mastretta (1997)
Edition X. Mexico.
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Los detectives salvajes – Roberto Bolaño (1999)
Edition XI. Chile. Bolaño's great novel about the "visceral realist" poets.
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12
El viaje vertical – Enrique Vila-Matas (2001)
Edition XII. Spain.
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El desbarrancadero – Fernando Vallejo (2003)
Edition XIII. Colombia.
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14
El vano ayer – Isaac Rosa (2005)
Edition XIV. Spain.
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El tren pasa primero – Elena Poniatowska (2007)
Edition XV. Mexico.
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El país de la canela – William Ospina (2009)
Edition XVI. Colombia.
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Blanco nocturno – Ricardo Piglia (2011)
Edition XVII. Argentina.
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18
Simone – Eduardo Lalo (2013)
Edition XVIII. Puerto Rico.
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Tríptico de la infamia – Pablo Montoya (2015)
Edition XIX. Colombia.
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El país del diablo – Perla Suez (2020)
Edition XX. Argentina.
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El simulacro de los espejos – Vicente Battista (2025)
Edition XXI. Argentina.
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