Camoens Prize
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The Camoens Prize (Portuguese, Prémio Camões), named after Camoens (author of the Lusiad), is the most important literary prize for the Portuguese language, are awarded annually by the Fundação Biblioteca Nacional (National Library Foundation) (of Portugal) and by the Departamento Nacional do Livro (National Book Department) (of Brazil) to a writer that developed an outstanding work in Portuguese.
It is often regarded as a type of Nobel Prize in Literature of the Portuguese language. 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 - Virgilio 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)pt:Prémio Camões