O mendigo que sabia de cor os adágios de Erasmo de Rotterdam by Evandro Affonso Ferreira

All entries were first published in Brazil in 2007. The awards ceremony took place on 1 December 2008, and the presenter was the MTV VJ Cazé Peçanha. The initial jury selected five finalists for each category, after which the final jury selected one winner from each category. The initial jury for the inaugural year of the São Paulo Prize for Literature reviewed 146 novels submitted by 55 publishers and 19 independent authors. Nossa Teresa – Vida e morte de uma santa suicidaĢ008 São Paulo Prize for Literature *In 2013 this prize was split to create two new prizes for debut authors under and over 40*īest Book of the Year – Debut Author 40 and Underīest Book of the Year – Debut Author Over 40 The following is a list of the winners since the prize's beginning:

Ten finalists are listed for each award, during the Festival da Mantiqueira, and the winners are announced on the first Monday of August in the Museum of the Portuguese Language.

Every year two prizes of R$200,000 each are awarded-one for the best novel of the year by an established author, and the other for the best novel of the year by a debut author-making the São Paulo Prize the largest prize for a published work in Brazil, and one of the largest literary prizes in the world. This rapid rise in popularity is partly because of the large cash prize. For example, in 2011, there were 221 submissions for the prize. Though not as old as other literary prizes in Brazil, such as the Machado de Assis Prize, the São Paulo Prize has quickly risen in prestige. It was established in 2008 by the Secretary of Culture for the State of São Paulo. The São Paulo Prize for Literature ( Portuguese: Prêmio São Paulo de Literatura) is a Brazilian literary prize for novels written in the Portuguese language and published in Brazil.

O mendigo que sabia de cor os adágios de Erasmo de Rotterdam by Evandro Affonso Ferreira