The Algarve writer Nuno Júdice is the winner of the Maria Amália Vaz de Carvalho Poetry Grand Prix, with the book “Return to a Country Scenery”, announced this Tuesday, 25 May, the Portuguese Association of Writers.
The decision was taken unanimously by the jury consisting of Luís Filipe Castro Mendes, José Manuel de Vasconcelos and Paula Mendes Coelho.
The minutes read: «”Return to a Country Setting” reflects a personal and universal moment, a moment of stopping but not of stagnation. Recovering an empathy with nature, claiming desire and love here and now, guarantees the possibility of an after”.
The Maria Amália Vaz de Carvalho Poetry Grand Prize, instituted by the Portuguese Association of Writers sponsored by the Loures City Council, is intended to annually award a work of poetry each year, in Portuguese and by a Portuguese author, published in full and first. edition.
In this third edition, the works released in the year 2020 competed.
The monetary value of this Grand Prize is, for the distinguished author, 12.500 euros.
In the two previous editions, the Maria Amália Vaz de Carvalho Poetry Grand Prize has already distinguished the poets Gastão Cruz (also from the Algarve) and Fernando Guimarães.
The award ceremony will be announced in due course.
Nuno Júdice was born in Portimão, in 1949. A university professor, in 2009 he took over the direction of the magazine «Colóquio-Letras» of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. He published his first book in 1972 and is one of the most important names in contemporary Portuguese poetry.
He received the most important national and international literary awards, including: Pen Clube (1985), D. Dinis Award from the Casa de Mateus Foundation (1990), from the Portuguese Writers Association (1995), Bordalo from the Casa da Imprensa (1999) ), Cesário Verde and Ana Hatherly (2003) and Fernando Namora (2004) .
In 2013 he received the Reina Sofia Prize for Ibero-American Poetry in Spain, in 2014 in Mexico the Latin World Poetry Prize and in 2015 the Argana Prize from the Maison de la Poésie in Morocco and the Inês de Castro Foundation Literary Prize – Tribute of Consecration. In 2016, he received in Italy the International Poetry Prize Europa in Versi/Carreira Prize.
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