Publisher congratulates Lídia Jorge on winning prestigious Camões Prize

Portuguese publisher Dom Quixote has celebrated writer Lídia Jorge's achievement in winning the 2026 Camões Prize, the highest honor in Portuguese-language literature. The publisher stated that the award confirms and strengthens Jorge's recognition as one of the most significant figures in contemporary Portuguese literature.

The Camões Prize annually honors an author whose career has significantly contributed to the cultural and literary enrichment of the Portuguese language. Dom Quixote emphasized that Jorge's literary output fully meets this criterion. This prestigious award comes shortly after Jorge was announced as the winner of the Austrian State Prize for European Literature, which she will receive in Salzburg on July 27. According to the publisher, these accolades consolidate her position as the most recognized and awarded living Portuguese writer.

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the award... confirms and reinforces the recognition of the author as one of the most relevant figures of contemporary literature in Portugal.

Dom Quixote also highlighted Jorge's extensive list of national and international awards in recent years. These include the French Prix Médicis in 2023, awarded for the first time to a Portuguese-language writer, the Pessoa Prize in 2025, and an honorary doctorate from the University of the Azores in the same year. In 2026, she also received the Archbishop Juan de San Clemente Prize in Galicia and recently attended the operatic adaptation premiere of her novel "Os Memoráveis."

Additionally, the publisher noted the recent release of "O Céu Cairá Sobre Nós," a collection of chronicles Jorge regularly publishes in the Spanish edition of El País newspaper. Lídia Jorge debuted in 1980 with "O Dia dos Prodígios," considered a foundational work in Portuguese literature post-Carnation Revolution. Her prolific career spans novels, short stories, essays, plays, poetry, and chronicles, with notable works including "A Costa dos Murmúrios," "O Vale da Paixão," "O Vento Assobiando nas Gruas," "Os Memoráveis," "Estuário," and "Misericórdia."

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the Premio Camões distinguishes each year an author whose trajectory has contributed to the cultural and literary enrichment of Portuguese, a condition that, she affirmed, the entire literary production of the writer amply fulfills.