Camões Prize [SEP] named after
Camões Prize
The Camões Prize (Portuguese, "Prémio Camões", ), named after Luís de Camões, is the most important prize for literature in the Portuguese language. It is awarded annually by the Portuguese "Direção-Geral do Livro, dos Arquivos e das Biblioteca" (National Book, Archive an Libraries Department) and the Brazilian "Fundação Biblioteca Nacional" (National Library Foundation) to the author of an outstanding oeuvre of work written in Portuguese. The monetary award is of , making it among the richest
, named it " "(...) desconhecida e obscura./ Tuba de alto clangor, lira singela,/ Que tens o trom e o silvo da procela,/ E o arrolo da saudade e da ternura!" ", which roughly translates as "(...) unknown and obscure,/ Tuba of high blare, delicate lyre,/ That holds the frill and the hiss of the tempest/ And the singing of the saudade and of the tenderness!"
Brazil's most significant literary award is the Camões Prize, which it shares with the entire Portuguese sprachraum.