title: José Saramago Prize
text: # José Saramago Prize
  
  The José Saramago Literary Prize has been awarded since 1999 by the Círculo de Leitores Foundation to a literary work written in Portuguese by a young author in which the first edition was published in a Lusophone country. It celebrates the attribution of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998 to the Portuguese writer José Saramago. The prize has a biannual periodicity, and a monetary value of €25,000. The jury is composed of between five and ten members holding distinguished cultural roles.
  
  ## Laureates
  
  | Year | Author | Work | Country |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | 1999 | Paulo José Miranda | Natureza Morta | Portugal |
  | 2001 | José Luís Peixoto | Nenhum Olhar | Portugal |
  | 2003 | Adriana Lisboa | Sinfonia em Branco | Brazil |
  | 2005 | Gonçalo M. Tavares | Jerusalém | Portugal |
  | 2007 | Valter hugo mãe | o remorso de baltazar serapião | Portugal |
  | 2009 | João Tordo | As Três Vidas | Portugal |
  | 2011 | Andréa del Fuego | Os Malaquias | Brazil |
  | 2013 | Ondjaki | Os Transparentes | Angola |
  | 2015 | Bruno Vieira Amaral | As Primeiras Coisas | Portugal |
  | 2017 | Julián Fuks | A Resistência | Brazil |
  | 2019 | Afonso Reis Cabral | Pão de Açúcar | Portugal |
  