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 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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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).

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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’re happy to share that Eugenia Almeida has won the 2025 Prix Violeta Negra Occitanie for her novel “Scrapyard”, published in French by Éditions Métailié under the title “La Casse”.

The jury of the Prix Violeta Negra Occitanie is composed of booksellers, librarians, journalists, and members of Toulouse Polars du Sud. The winning novel was announced on October 11, 2025, during the 17th edition of the Toulouse Polars du Sud Festival.

We’re happy to announce that our author Unai Elorriaga has won the 2025 Euskadi Prize for Literature in the category Basque Literature for his novel “About the Five Souls of Francesco Pasquale” (“Francesco Pasqualeren bosgarren arima”), originally published at Susa and recently launched in Spanish (castellano) at Galaxia Gutenberg. Other winners this year include Karmele Mitxelena and Maite Rosende.

Each laureate receives the sum of €18,000.

The award ceremony will take place on November 26th, at the San Telmo Museum in Donostia/San Sebastián.

> https://www.euskadi.eus/gobierno-vasco/-/noticia/2025/unai-elorriaga-karmele-mitxelena-y-maite-rosende-recibiran-premio-euskadi-literatura-2025/