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.

[edit] The Laureates are

Year	Author	Country
1989	Miguel Torga (1907 - 1994)	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 -)	Portugal
1996	Eduardo Lourenço (1923 -)	Portugal
1997	"Pepetela"-Artur Carlos Maurício Pestana dos Santos (1941 -)	Angola
1998	António Cândido de Mello e Sousa (1918 -)	Brazil
1999	Sophia de Mello Breyner (1919 - 2004)	Portugal
2000	Autran Dourado (1926 -)	Brazil
2001	Eugénio de Andrade (1923 - 2005)	Portugal
2002	Maria Velho da Costa (1938 -)	Portugal
2003	Rubem Fonseca (1925 -)	Brazil
2004	Agustina Bessa-Luís (1922 -)	Portugal
2005	Lygia Fagundes Telles (1923 -)	Brazil
2006	José Luandino Vieira (1935 -) - refused ^[1]	Portugal/ Angola
2007	António Lobo Antunes (1942 -)	Portugal