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.
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