| Año | Ganador |
| 1973 | Jorge Luis Borges |
| 1974 | Marcel Bataillon |
| 1975 | Alejo Carpentier |
| 1976 | André Malraux |
| 1977 | Jorge Guillén |
| 1978 | James W. Robb |
| 1979 | Carlos Fuentes |
| 1980 | Ernesto Mejía Sánchez |
| 1981 | Jacques Soustelle |
| 1982 | José Luis Martínez |
| 1983 | Paulette Patout |
| 1984 | Rubén Bonifaz Nuño |
| 1985 | Octavio Paz |
| 1986 | Alí Chumacero |
| 1987 | Gutierre Tibón |
| 1988 | Ramón Xirau |
| 1989 | Laurette Sejourné |
| 1990 | Adolfo Bioy Casares |
| 1991 | Andrés Henestrosa |
| 1992 | Arnaldo Orfila Reynal |
| 1993 | Joaquín Diez Canedo |
| 1994 | Germán Arciniegas |
| 1995 | Juan José Arreola |
| 2000 | Arturo Uslar Pietri |
| 2001 | Miguel León-Portilla |
| 2002 | Rafael Gutiérrez Girardot |
| 2003 | Harold Bloom |
| 2004 | José Emilio Pacheco |
| 2005 | Antonio Candido |
| 2006 | Margit Frenk |
| 2007 | George Steiner |
| 2008 | Ernesto de la Peña |
| 2009 | Alfonso Rangel Guerra |
| 2010 | Mario Vargas Llosa |
| 2011 | Eduardo Lizalde |
| 2012 | Ignacio Bosque |
| 2013 | Fernando del Paso |
| 2014 | Ida Vitale |
| 2015 | Sergio Pitol |
| 2016 | |
| 2017 | Alberto Manuel |
| 2018 | Adolfo Castañon |
| 2019 | Héctor Manuel Perea Enríquez |
| 2020 | Carlos García Gual |
| 2021 | Liliana Weinberg |
| 2022 | Malva Flores |
| 2023 | Elsa Cross |
| 2024 | Alberto Enríquez Perea |
