We are excited to share that our author Lídia Jorge is the recipient of this year’s Camões Prize!

The Camões Prize is considered the most prestigious literary award in the Portuguese-speaking world. It is awarded for a body of work that contributes to the dissemination and recognition of the Portuguese language. It is awarded annually since 1989 by the National Book, Archives and Libraries Department and the Brazilian National Library Foundation. The winner is chosen by a specially designated jury, with representatives from Portugal, Brazil and Portuguese-speaking African countries (PALOP).

This year’s vote fell unanimously on Lídia Jorge, whose “dense poetic prose” the jury highlighted, as well as her addressing themes such as “the transition to democracy in Portugal, the condition of women, emigration, generational conflicts, social change and the role of collective memory in the construction of contemporary identity.”

Among the former recipients are Miguel Torga, Rachel de Queiroz, Jorge Amado, José Saramago, Pepetela, Sophia de Mello Breyner, Rubem Fonseca, Agustina Bessa-Luís, Lygia Fagundes Telles, António Lobo Antunes, Mia Couto, Hélia Correia, Raduan Nassar, Germano Almeida, Chico Buarque, Paulina Chiziane and Ana Paula Tavares.

The distinction is endowed with €100,000.

> https://www.dn.pt/cultura/escritora-ldia-jorge-vence-prmio-cames-2026

“Less Than One” by Patrícia Melo has been longlisted for the Grand Prix de littérature policière 2026 in the category of best translated novel. It was published in France by Buchet-Chastel and translated by Élodie Dupau.

Founded in 1948 by Maurice-Bernard Endrèbe, the Grand Prix de littérature policière honours two noir/crime novels each year, one in French and one in translation. Past winners in the category of translated novel include Patricia Highsmith, E.V. Cunningham, Mary Higgins Clark, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Elizabeth George, Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Michael Connelly, Camilla Läckberg and Víctor del Árbol. Previous recipients of the Prize who are represented by MertinWitt are Eugenia Almeida and Boris Quercia.

This year’s winners will be announced on September 24th.

> https://actualitte.com/article/132291/prix-litteraires/grand-prix-de-litterature-policiere-2026-les-30-romans-selectionnes

We are proud to announce that Lídia Jorge has been awarded the Austrian State Prize for European Literature 2026 by the Federal Chancellery for Arts, Culture, and Media. Established in 1965, the prize honours the literary oeuvre of European authors with strong international visibility, documented through translations. The distinction is endowed with 25,000 Euros and awarded annually during the Salzburg Festival.

“For many decades, her writing has championed human equality and the value of life in a highly poetic manner. I have the deepest admiration for the author and poet Lídia Jorge. My warmest congratulations!”, states Andreas Babler, Vice-Chancellor and Federal Minister for the Arts and Culture in Austria.

The five-member jury explains that through her polyphonic and testimonial writing, Lídia Jorge leads readers “into the realms of deep uncertainty, where nothing is sublime or symbolic, but everything is significant.”

The most recent recipients of the State Prize are Serhij Zhadan, Joanna Bator, Marie NDiaye, Ali Smith, László Krasznahorkai, Drago Jančar, Michel Houellebecq, Zadie Smith and Karl Ove Knausgård.

For the official press release in German, please click here.

We are pleased to announce that applications are now open for Translating Chile 2027, with the deadline being 31 July 2026, at 23:59 Chile Continental Time. All information, in English and Spanish, are available here. Submissions can be made via the link on this page.

The program provides full or partial funding for projects proposed by foreign publishers for the translation and publication of Chilean literary works, into foreign languages other than Spanish, whether classical or contemporary, fiction or non-fiction, in the following genres: novels, short stories, poetry, essays, graphic narrative, drama, children and youth literature, and memoirs (letters, chronicles, autobiographies, biographies). These works may be published in print and/or digital formats. Applications that intend to publish the translated work exclusively on a print-on-demand basis will not be accepted.

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.

The list of eligible applications will be published on 17 August and the final results will be announced on 12 October 2026.

> https://www.dirac.gob.cl/traducciones

The two most important Portuguese newspapers have listed their Best Books of 2025 and the novel “The End of the United States of America. An Epic” by Gonçalo M. Tavares was ranked 1st place by Público and 2nd place by Expresso.

Both newspapers’ literary sections, Público Ípsilon and A Revista do Expresso, have published cover stories about Gonçalo M. Tavares in their latest issues, including interviews with the author.

Submissions for the European Union's 2026 support programme for translations of European literature are still possible until January 29, 2026.

The CREA-CULT-2026-LIT (Circulation of European literary works) programme supports projects that will translate, publish, distribute and promote European works of fiction, in particular by encouraging translations from lesser used languages into English, German, French, Spanish (Castilian) and Italian.

Proposals must be submitted electronically via the Funding & Tenders Portal Electronic Submission System.

The New York Times has published an extensive feature on Angolan author José Eduardo Agualusa, on occasion of Archipelago Books’ launching of The Living and the Rest in the USA on 27th May, in the English translation of the author’s longtime translator Daniel Hahn.

Agualusa states that his novel is “inspired by the real-life charms of Mozambique Island”, a small island on the northern coast of Mozambique which he has made his home almost ten years ago by marrying a local filmmaker.

Kenyan author Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor is convinced that “Agualusa is one of the prophets of our African ‘marvelous’ complexity”, a complexitiy which Agualusa himself likes to describe as “African realism”. According to Anderson Tepper, reading The Living and the Rest “you have entered Agualusa’s world, where the boundaries between the real and imaginary are porous, and dreams become their own reality.” And indeed, dreams are essential in Agualusa’s life and work. “We must start dreaming again, in a collective way. That’s the only way to transform the world: to dream together”, he says.

You can find the whole article here:

> New York Times Feature

We are delighted to share that Adriana Fernández‘s children’s book “Dear Giant” has been included in the list of ALIJA’s 2024 recommendations. ALIJA is the Argentinian Section of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY). IBBY is a non-profit organization which represents an international network of people from all over the world who are committed to bringing books and children together. It is based in Switzerland. Since its founding in 1953, IBBY has grown in the number of awards and projects it supports and in their geographical spread. All these awards and projects share the goal of encouraging quality children’s literature and upholding the right of every child to become a reader. Every year, ALIJA awards one of the most renowned prizes in Latin America: the ALIJA Highlights, for which a federal and multidisciplinary jury honours the best works for children and young people of the period.

> ALIJA 2024 Recommendations

We are excited to announce that our author Mia Couto will receive the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature at the 2025 PEN America Literary Awards.

At the award ceremony on May 8—called the “Oscars for books”— PEN America will confer the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature to Mozambican author Mia Couto for his body of work. The PEN/Nabokov jury cited him for probing his homeland’s fraught history “as well as essential riddles of identity and existence. Couto has held “a singular place in the landscape of both African and world literature,” the judges wrote.

The PEN America awards are juried by panels of esteemed, award-winning authors, editors, translators, and critics. These authors are committed to recognizing their contemporaries, from promising debut writers to those who have already had a continuous and lasting impact on the literary landscape.

> Press release for the 2025 PEN America Literary Awards