We are pleased to announce that applications are now open for Translating Chile 2027, with the deadline being 30 June 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.

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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 February 2027.

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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.

> https://www.fundacionformentor.es/

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/

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.