:1988 –
Luis Alfredo Arango – (1935–2001) :1989 –
Carlos Solórzano – (born 1922) :1990 –
Otto-Raúl González – (1921–2007) :1991 –
Dante Liano – (born 1948) :1992 –
Enrique Juárez Toledo – (1910–1999) :1993 –
Mario Monteforte Toledo – (1911–2003) :1994 –
Luz Méndez de la Vega – (born 1919) :1995 –
Miguel Ángel Vásquez – (born 1922) :1996 –
Margarita Carrera – (1929–2018) :1997 –
Augusto Monterroso – (1921–2003) :1998 –
Francisco Morales Santos – (born 1940) :1999 –
Mario Alberto Carrera – (born 1945) :2000 –
Ana María Rodas – (born 1937) :2001 –
Isabel de los Ángeles Ruano – (born 1945) :2002 –
Julio Fausto Aguilera – (born 1929) :2003 –
Humberto Ak'abal, declined – (born 1952) :2004 –
Rodrigo Rey Rosa – (born 1958) :2005 –
Carlos Navarrete – (born 1931) :2006 –
Marco Antonio Flores – (born 1937) :2007 –
Mario Roberto Morales – (born 1947) :2008 –
Arturo Arias – (born 1950) :2009 –
Gerardo Guinea Diez – (born 1955) :2010 –
Enrique Noriega – (born 1949) :2011 –
Francisco Pérez de Antón – (born 1940) :2012 –
Humberto López – (born 1954) :2013 –
Víctor Muñoz – (born 1950) :2014 –
David Unger (born 1950) :2015 –
Carmen Matute : 2016 –
Delia Quiñónez (born 1946) :2017 –
Francisco Alejandro Méndez (born 1964) :2018 –
Eduardo Halfon (born 1971) :2019 –
Luis Eduardo Rivera (born 1949) :2020 –
José Luis Perdomo Orellana (born 1958) :2021 –
Rafael Cuevas Molina (born 1954) :2022 –
Gloria Hernández (born 1960) ==References==