We are happy to announce that our author Boris Quercia has been awarded the 2025 Chilean Academy of Fine Arts Award, in the Agustín Sirén category, presided over by a distinguished group of Chilean artists. He received this distinction for his outstanding and multifaceted artistic career, his extraordinary creative talent, and his cross-disciplinary success across multiple artistic fields, through which he has forged a deep connection with audiences and reflected contemporary Chilean identity and culture. The award ceremony will take place on April 27.

The Chilean Academy of Fine Arts annually grants four awards, which are public recognitions given to individuals who have distinguished themselves as creators in various artistic fields, or to institutions and performers who have worked to promote, in Chile or abroad, the creations of Chilean artists. The awards are honorary in nature and consist of a diploma containing a brief account of the merits and circumstances that justify the distinction, along with a sculpture created by Sergio Castillo Mandiola.

We are delighted to announce that our author Isabel Baboun has been selected as one of the writers for the Finestres Literary Residency. The Finestres Literary Residency, located in Catalonia, Spain, aims to provide an ideal space for imagination, reflection, literary creation, cultural exchange, and contact with nature. Each year, fifteen places are offered for writers to stay and work at the residency. Notable authors who have previously taken part in the residency include Mariana Enríquez, Irene Solà, Horacio Castellanos Moya, Leila Guerriero, and Gabriela Wiener. One of the selected writers this year is also Daniela Catrileo. Isabel Baboun will start the programm in September.

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We are happy to share that Gonçalo M. Tavares has been awarded the 2026 Formentor Prize for Literature, considered a prelude to the Nobel Prize in Literature.

This prize, which began in 1961 with the distinction of Samuel Beckett and Jorge Luis Borges, has in recent years been awarded to authors who, a few years later, received the Nobel Prize, as was very recently the case with Annie Ernaux and László Krasznahorkai.

The impressive list of previous winners includes, among others, Samuel Beckett, Jorge Luis Borges, Saul Bellow, Witold Gombrowicz, Javier Marías, Ricardo Piglia, Roberto Calasso, Mircea Cărtărescu, Annie Ernaux, Cees Nooteboom, César Aira, Liudmila Ulítskaya, Pascal Quignard, and László Krasznahorkai.

The jury praised Tavares’s work “for revealing the unexpected implications of a humanity frightened of itself, for recounting the paradoxical epic of contemporary loss, and for the boldness with which he has constructed a narrative free from the temptations of the obvious. (…) By blurring the strict boundaries that separate traditional literary genres, Tavares has sustained over the past 25 years a body of work marked by a powerful voice, dazzling originality, and vigorous imagination.”

Tavares is the first Portuguese writer to receive this prize, which carries an award of fifty thousand euros.

The Prize was founded by a renowned group of European publishers, including Carlos Barral, Claude Gallimard, Giulio Einaudi, Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt, Barney Rosset and Weidenfeld & Nicolson.

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We would like to inform interested publishers that the application deadline for Translating Chile 2026 has been extended to February 13, 2026, at 23:59 Chile Continental Time.

All other terms and conditions of the call remain unchanged. Applications may still be submitted in English or Spanish, and results will be published on April 17 via www.dirac.gob.cl/

Additionally, a new program is expected to be announced in early March and will run until the end of May.

José Luís Peixoto is the winner of the Vergílio Ferreira Prize 2026, granted by the Universidade de Évora. The jury explained that the author was awarded the prize as he is “one of the most distinctive contemporary voices in the Portuguese language.”

This prize has been awarded since 1997 and honours outstanding Portuguese-language authors in the field of narrative and/or essay.

Former winners include Ondjaki (2023), Ana Luísa Amaral (2021), Nélida Piñon (2019), Gonçalo M. Tavares (2018), Lídia Jorge (2015), Hélia Correia (2013), Mário de Carvalho (2009), Agustina Bessa-Luís (2004), Eduardo Lourenço (2001) and Mia Couto (1999).

> https://www.lusa.pt/culture/article/2026-01-29/46450372/universidade-de-%C3%A9vora-distingue-jos%C3%A9-lu%C3%ADs-peixoto-com-pr%C3%A9mio-verg%C3%ADlio-ferreira

We are happy to announce that Andrés Montero has won the 2025 José Nuez Martín Prize for his novel “The Year We Spoke with the Sea”, published by La Pollera. The prize, awarded by the Faculty of Letters of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (one of the two most important universities of the country), together with the José Nuez Martín Foundation, has recognized outstanding contemporary Chilean literature since 1994, alternating between novels and playwriting. This is its 31st edition.

The award ceremony will take place on Thursday, January 22, at 12:00, in the auditorium of the UC Faculty of Letters, San Joaquín Campus, Santiago de Chile.

Previous winners of the José Nuez Martín Prize include Jorge Díaz (1994), Diamela Eltit (1995; Chilean National Prize for Literature in 2018), Marco Antonio de la Parra (1996), Nona Fernández (2014), Francisco Ovando (2015), and Hernán Rivera Letelier (2001;  Chilean National Prize for Literature in 2022).

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We are happy to announce that the prestigious French cultural magazine Transfuge has awarded the Brazilian writer Patrícia Melo the Transfuge Prize for Hispanic Literature 2026 for her novel “Menos que um”, translated into French by Buchet Chastel. As title, they chose “Ceux qui ne sont rien”, explaining “In this urban jungle at the heart of a deeply unequal country, there are the invisible ones, those who are nothing and yet are at the centre of everything. The heroes of this novel, as poetic as it is political, a true Brazilian version of Les Misérables.”

Among the former winners are Eugenia Almeida (2016), Horacio Castellanos Moya (2018), Leonardo Padura (2021), Camila Sosa Villada (2024) and Daniel Saldana (2025).

> https://www.transfuge.fr/2026/01/14/prix-transfuge-rentree-dhiver-2026/

We are very happy to announce that our author Lídia Jorge has won the Pessoa Prize 2025, the most prestigious cultural prize awarded in Portugal. It consists of 70.000€.

This is the first time the prize has been awarded to a novelist. Lídia Jorge is the seventh woman to receive the Pessoa Prize in its 39 editions and the first woman to be honored in the last five years. Among the former winners are José Cardoso Pires (1997), Manuel Alegre (1999), Mário Cláudio (2004), Eduardo Lorenço (2011), Richard Zenith (2012) and João Luís Barreto Guimarães (2022).

The Pessoa Prize was created in 1987 by the Expresso newspaper and the IT company Unisys and is awarded annually to a Portuguese person who has stood out in the artistic, cultural, or scientific life of the country. Its purpose is to recognize outstanding contributions to Portuguese culture and society.

> https://amp.expresso.pt/cultura/2025-12-11-lidia-jorge-e-o-premio-pessoa-de-2025-e203a3d8

We are pleased to announce that applications are now open for Translating Chile 2026, with a deadline on January 30, 2026, at 23:59 Chile Continental Time. Submissions can be made either in English or Spanish. Results will be published on the 17th of April through www.dirac.gob.cl/.

All publishing houses are invited to submit their translation projects for consideration. The program offers funding of up to USD 6,000 per selected project, covering translation and printing costs. To participate, applicants must nominate an experienced translator with a proven track record, and a professional proofreader to ensure the quality and accuracy of the translation.

Selected proposals will contribute to Chile’s growing literary visibility abroad, particularly in anticipation of the participation as Guest of Honor at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2027. To explore the longlist and shortlist of titles from the Chilean delegation, please click here.

Translating Chile supports foreign publishing houses in translating and publishing Chilean literary works—classic or contemporary—into languages other than Spanish. Through this initiative, the aim is to expand the international presence of Chilean literature and strengthen cultural exchange with readers around the world. It's a program of the Division of Cultures, Arts, Heritage and Public Diplomacy (DIRAC) of the Chilean Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Since the programme’s launch, more than 150 of Chile’s finest literary titles have been translated into 27 languages. This year alone, 39 publications supported by the Translating Chile fund will reach shelves in 22 countries all around the globe.

Contact: programadetraduccion@minrel.gob.cl

> https://www.dirac.gob.cl/translating-chile-abre-su-convocatoria-2026-para-editoriales-extranjeras

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