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Awarded each year since 1982 by the Portuguese Writers' Association (APE) to a novel or novella in Portuguese by a Portuguese author, first published the year before; the APE names each prize after that year of publication. From 2012 to 2022 the jury also announced a shortlist of five finalists.
The first award went to José Cardoso Pires for Balada da Praia dos Cães, published in 1982. The prize is worth 15,000 euros. Besides the Directorate-General for Books, Archives and Libraries (DGLAB), named in its title, it is supported by the municipality of Grândola, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Instituto Camões. Publishers submit books, 86 of which were admitted for the 2022 prize, and in recent years a six-member jury has chosen the winner, announced during the following year. Past winners include José Saramago, Vergílio Ferreira, Maria Velho da Costa, Gonçalo M. Tavares and Valter Hugo Mãe. Mário Cláudio has won three times, in 1984, 2014 and 2020. Agustina Bessa-Luís, António Lobo Antunes, Lídia Jorge, Teolinda Gersão and Maria Gabriela Llansol are among those who have won twice.
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APE 2022 · Shortlist
Maremoto
Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida · 39 when first published
Novel · 304 pages · War, Family
AI-generated summary:In Lisbon, Boa Morte da Silva, an old soldier who now parks cars, and a girl from Rua do Loreto become friends like a chance grandfather and granddaughter, while he writes letters to a daughter who is almost a stranger.
APE 2020 · Shortlist
A Visão das Plantas
Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida · 37 when first published
Novel · 304 pages · Historical
AI-generated summary:Captain Celestino, a former pirate who once smothered a revolt of the Africans he was shipping to Brazil, ends his days almost a saint, quietly tending a garden, in a story drawn from a passage in Raul Brandão.
APE 2018 · Shortlist
A Sociedade dos Sonhadores Involuntários
José Eduardo Agualusa · 57 when first published
Novel · 288 pages · Politics, Satire
AI-generated summary:Daniel Benchimol, an Angolan journalist, keeps dreaming of strangers, and dreams draw him together with a Mozambican artist, a Brazilian scientist and a hotelier with a violent past, in a country whose dictatorship is crumbling.
APE 2012 · Shortlist
A Cidade de Ulisses
Teolinda Gersão · 71 when first published
Novel · 197 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:Two people meet and fall in love in Lisbon, and their affair turns into a love story with the city itself, ranging over myth and history, literature and painting, past and present.
APE 2011 · Winner
Uma Viagem à Índia
Gonçalo M. Tavares · 40 when first published
Novel · 410 pages
AI-generated summary:A man sets off for India hoping both to understand and to put things behind him, in a journey of present-day melancholy that rewrites Camões's sixteenth-century epic The Lusiads for our time.
APE 2003 · Winner
O Vento Assobiando nas Gruas
Lídia Jorge · 56 when first published
Novel · 528 pages · Migration, Love
AI-generated summary:In an invented Algarve village, Milene, thirty-four and seeing everything with a child's eyes, stays behind when her relatives go on holiday and lets a group of Cape Verdean immigrants settle in the disused cannery her family owns.
APE 2000 · Winner
Exortação aos Crocodilos
António Lobo Antunes · 57 when first published
Novel · 378 pages · Politics, Crime
AI-generated summary:In Portugal after the 1974 revolution, four women whose men belong to a clandestine far-right group planting bombs tell, each in her own voice, what is going on around them.