The Santiago Municipal Literature Award is one of the oldest and most important literary awards in Chile Created in 1934 by the municipality of Santiago, its first edition awarded the categories of novel, poetry and theater. Two categories were added soon after – essay, in 1941, and short story, in 1954 – and four other more recently, in 2013 – children's and young adult literature, referential, journalistic research and editing. In 2014 it was decided to start awarding children's and young adult literature separately, making it a total of ten categories.