Camões Prize
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The Camões Prize (Portuguese, Prémio Camões), named after Luís de Camões (author of the Os Lusíadas), is the most important literary prize for the Portuguese language. It is awarded annually by the Portuguese Fundação Biblioteca Nacional (National Library Foundation) and the Brazilian Departamento Nacional do Livro (National Book Department) to the author of an outstanding work written in Portuguese.
It is often regarded as the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in Literature for works in Portuguese. The monetary award is of 100,000 euros.
The Laureates are:
- 1989 - Miguel Torga (Portugal, 1907-1994)
- 1990 - João Cabral de Melo Neto (Brazil, 1920-1999)
- 1991 - José Craveirinha (Mozambique, 1922-2003)
- 1992 - Vergílio Ferreira (Portugal, 1916-1996)
- 1993 - Rachel de Queiroz (Brazil, 1910-2003)
- 1994 - Jorge Amado (Brazil, 1912-2001)
- 1995 - José Saramago (Portugal, 1922)
- 1996 - Eduardo Lourenço (Portugal, 1923)
- 1997 - "Pepetela" (Artur Carlos Maurício Pestana dos Santos, Angola, 1941)
- 1998 - Antonio Candido (Brazil, 1918)
- 1999 - Sophia de Mello Breyner (Portugal, 1919-2004)
- 2000 - Autran Dourado (Brazil, 1926)
- 2001 - Eugénio de Andrade (Portugal, 1923-2005)
- 2002 - Maria Velho da Costa (Portugal, 1938)
- 2003 - Rubem Fonseca (Brazil, 1925)
- 2004 - Agustina Bessa-Luís (Portugal, 1922)
- 2005 - Lygia Fagundes Telles (Brazil, 1923)
- 2006 - Luandino Vieira, (Angola, 1935, declined)
