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 . The jury is composed of between five and ten members holding distinguished cultural roles.[1]
| Year | Author | Work | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Natureza Morta | |||
| 2001 | Nenhum Olhar | |||
| 2003 | Sinfonia em Branco | |||
| 2005 | Jerusalém | |||
| 2007 | o remorso de baltazar serapião | |||
| 2009 | As Três Vidas | |||
| 2011 | Andréa del Fuego[2] | Os Malaquias | ||
| 2013 | Ondjaki[3] | Os Transparentes | ||
| 2015 | Bruno Vieira Amaral[4] | As Primeiras Coisas | ||
| 2017 | Julián Fuks[5] | A Resistência | ||
| 2019 | Afonso Reis Cabral | Pão de Açúcar |