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16 unusual facts about Konex Award


Adolfo Bioy Casares

Bioy won several awards, including the Gran Premio de Honor of SADE (the Argentine Society of Writers, 1975), the French Legion of Honour (1981), the Diamond Konex Award of Literature (1994) the title of Illustrious Citizen of Buenos Aires (1986), and the Miguel de Cervantes Prize (awarded to him in 1991 in Alcalá de Henares).

Adrián Iaies

This was followed by the release of Las Cosas Tienen Movimiento ("Things Move"), in 2003, and a 2005 Konex Award for his first decade in jazz.

Alejandro Kuropatwa

In 2002, Kuropatwa won the Konex Award as the most influential Argentine photographer of the nineties.

Carlos Escudé

In 1981 he earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale; in 1984 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship; in 1986 he was decorated with the Order of Bernardo O’Higgins for promoting peace and friendship between Argentina and Chile; in 1996 he received the Konex Award, and in 2003 he was appointed 2003-2004 Ashley Fellow by Trent University (Canada), nominated as “likely the most distinguished political theorist in Latin America”.

Guillermo Jaim Etcheverry

Among other distinctions, he was nominated for the 2003 Konex Award on Science and Technology.

Guillermo Roux

This was followed by, among other honors, the Konex Award (the highest prize in the Argentine cultural realm), in 1982.

Horacio Salgán

In 2005 Konex Foundation from Argentina granted him the Diamond Konex Award, one of the most prestigious awards im Argentina, as the most important personality in the Popular Music of his country in the last decade.

Hugo Miguel Arrambide

Arrambide represented his country at the 1964, 1968 and 1972 Olympic Games, and received the 1980 Konex Merit Diploma for horsemanship.

Jorge Cumbo

Cumbo has performed all over the world, mainly in Europe, South America and Japan, and was nominated for a Konex Award for the title of best instrumentalist in the decade from 1985 to 1995, along with Jaime Torres and Eduardo Lagos.

Konex Award

Thus far, two Konex Decorations have been granted: Yehudi Menuhin in 1994 and Mstislav Rostropovich in 2002.

Leonardo Moledo

Moledo was honored a Konex Award (the highest in the Argentine cultural realm) in 1994 as the Best Writer in Argentine Science Fiction, and in 1997 as the Man of the Decade in Argentine Journalism.

Luis Felipe Noé

In 2002 Konex Foundation from Argentina, granted him the Diamond Konex Award for Visual Arts as the most important artist in the last decade in his country.

Pablo Ricardi

Konex Foundation granted him the Platinum Konex Award in 2000 as the most important chess player of the decade.

Pablo Zarnicki

Zarnicki was awarded with the Konex Award as one of the 5 best chess players of the decade in his country.

Ricardo Darín

In 2011 Konex Foundation from Argentina granted him the Diamond Konex Award, one of the most prestigious awards in Argentina, as the most important personality in Entertainment in the last decade in his country.

Sergio Renán

Then, in 1980, he directed and took the lead role in Sentimental, and received his first Konex Award (the highest in the Argentine cultural realm), the following year.


Alejandra Boero

Boero received the Konex Award and the Molière Award, and was also named Illustrious Citizen of Buenos Aires.