Camões Prize
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Key facts
- Country
- Lusophone countries
- Presented by
- Direção-Geral do Livro, dos Arquivos e das Biblioteca (Portugal) and, Fundação Biblioteca Nacional (Brazil)
- Reward
- €100,000
- Website
- http://livro.dglab.gov.pt/sites/DGLB/Portugues/premios/PremioCamoes/Paginas/PremioCamoes.aspx
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Prémio Camões
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- literary award
- Named after
- Q590
- Country
- Portugal
- Official website
- livro.dglab.gov.pt/sites/DGLB/Portugues/premios/PremioCamoes/Paginas/PremioCamoes.aspx
- Image
- Camões Prize.png
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- topic's main category
- Category:Prêmio Camões de Literatura
- inception
- 1988-00-00
- Commons category
- Prêmio Camões de Literatura
- category for recipients of this award
- Category:Camões Prize winners
- winner
- Silviano Santiago
- native label
- Prémio Camões
- prize money
- 100000
- start time
- 1989-00-00
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Camões Prize (Portuguese: Prémio Camões, Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈpɾɛmju kaˈmõjʃ]), named after Luís de Camões, is the most prestigious prize for literature in the Portuguese language. The prize was established in 1989 and is supported by the governments of Brazil and Portugal. It is awarded annually to the author of an outstanding body of work written in Portuguese. Winners are selected by a jury and have included writers from Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Mozambique, and Portugal. The monetary award is €100,000, making it among the richest literary prizes in the world. Past winners include Miguel Torga, Vergílio Ferreira, Jorge Amado, José Saramago, Eugénio de Andrade, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, and Chico Buarque.
History
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