Prémio Camoes

The Prémio Camões ( Portuguese for Camões Prize ) is the most important literary prize in the Portuguese-speaking area . It is named after Luís de Camões , author of the Portuguese national epic The Lusiads .

He is since 1989 annually by the Instituto Camões (the Cultural Institute of the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs) and the Brazilian Ministry of Culture affiliated Fundação Biblioteca Nacional of writers for outstanding works in Portuguese awarded.

The award is endowed with 100,000 euros. This means that it is just as highly endowed as the Prémio LeYa , which, however, does not distinguish the complete work, but always a specific work by a Portuguese-speaking author. The two prizes are the most valuable literary prizes in the Portuguese-speaking area.

Award winners

year	author	Country of origin
1989	Miguel Torga (1907-1995)	Portugal
1990	João Cabral de Melo Neto (1920–1999)	Brazil
1991	José Craveirinha (1922-2003)	Mozambique
1992	Vergílio Ferreira (1916–1996)	Portugal
1993	Rachel de Queiroz (1910-2003)	Brazil
1994	Jorge Amado (1912-2001)	Brazil
1995	José Saramago (1922-2010)	Portugal
1996	Eduardo Lourenço (* 1923)	Portugal
1997	Arthur Pestana (* 1941)	Angola
1998	António Cândido de Mello e Sousa (1918-2017)	Brazil
1999	Sophia de Mello Breyner (1919-2004)	Portugal
2000	Autran Dourado (1926–2012)	Brazil
2001	Eugénio de Andrade (1923-2005)	Portugal
2002	Maria Velho da Costa (* 1938)	Portugal
2003	Rubem Fonseca (1925-2020)	Brazil
2004	Agustina Bessa-Luís (1922–2019)	Portugal
2005	Lygia Fagundes Telles (* 1923)	Brazil
2006	José Luandino Vieira (* 1935) turned down the award	Portugal / Angola
2007	António Lobo Antunes (* 1942)	Portugal
2008	João Ubaldo Ribeiro (1941-2014)	Brazil
2009	Arménio Vieira (* 1941)	Cape Verde
2010	Ferreira Gullar (1930-2016)	Brazil
2011	Manuel António Pina (1943–2012)	Portugal
2012	Dalton Trevisan (* 1925)	Brazil
2013	Mia Couto (born 1955)	Mozambique
2014	Alberto da Costa e Silva (* 1931)	Brazil
2015	Hélia Correia (* 1949)	Portugal
2016	Raduan Nassar (* 1935)	Brazil
2017	Manuel Alegre (* 1936)	Portugal
2018	Germano Almeida (* 1945)	Cape Verde
2019	Chico Buarque (* 1944)	Brazil

Web links

• Instituto Português do Livro e das Bibliotecas (Portuguese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Isabel Lucas: Luandino Vieira recusa Camões por "razões pessoais" ( Memento of February 26, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) , Luandino Vieira rejects Prémio Camões for "personal reasons", Diário de Notícias , May 25, 2006
2. ↑ João Ubaldo Ribeiro receives Prémio Camões , July 26, 2008
3. ^ Poeta cabo-verdiano Arménio Vieira ganha Prêmio Camões ( Memento from December 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), June 2, 2009
4. ↑ Poeta Ferreira Gullar ganha Prêmio de Camões in 2010 , 31 May 2010
5. ↑ Manuel António Pina ganha Prémio Camões 2011 ( Memento of July 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), May 12, 2011
6. ^ Dalton Trevisan distinguido com o Prémio Camões 2012 ( Memento of May 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), May 21, 2012
7. ↑ Escritor Mia Couto ganha Camões Prize , May 27, 2013
8. ↑ Article of June 2, 2014 in the Mozambican newspaper O País , accessed on June 3, 2014
9. ↑ Portuguese Hélia Correia receives Camões Literature Prize ( Memento from July 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), message from WDR from June 18, 2015, accessed on June 27, 2015
10. ↑ Luís Miguel Queirós: Livros. Manuel Alegre é o vencedor do Prémio Camões . In: PÚBLICO . ( publico.pt [accessed May 21, 2018]).
11. ↑ Isabel Lucas: Prémio Camões. O escritor cabo-verdiano Germano Almeida é o Prémio Camões 2018 . In: PÚBLICO . ( publico.pt [accessed May 21, 2018]).
12. ↑ Brazilian Chico Buarque wins Camões Literature Prize