National Poetry Award (Colombia)
# National Poetry Award (Colombia)

The National Poetry Award (Spanish: Premio Nacional de Poesía) is an honor presented by Colombia's Ministry of Culture. In its current format, it is given biennially, in alternating years with the National Novel Award [es]. It rewards excellence in poetic production by a Colombian citizen, living in the country or abroad, for a Spanish-language work published in the preceding two years. It includes a monetary prize of 60 million Colombian pesos (16,027 United States dollars).

Prior to 1997, it was presented by the Colombian Institute of Culture.

## List of winners

* 1985 – Jotamario Arbeláez, for La casa de la memoria
* 1993 – Rómulo Bustos [es], for En el traspatio del cielo
* 1994 – Piedad Bonnett, for El hilo de los días
* 2001 – Juan Felipe Robledo [es], for La música de las horas
* 2004 – Juan Manuel Roca [es], for Las hipótesis de nadie
* 2010 – Martha Carolina Dávila, for Como las catedrales
* 2013 – Horacio Benavides Zúñiga, for La Serena Hierba
* 2015 – Nelson Romero Guzmán [es], for Música lenta
* 2017 – Darío Jaramillo Agudelo [es], for El cuerpo y otra cosa
* 2019 – Rómulo Bustos [es], for De moscas y de ángeles
* 2021 – Eliana Hernández Pachón, for La mata
