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Prizes, grants and awards

The Calouste Gulbenkian Prize (past winners)

For Portuguese Translation

Before 2002 this prize was named The Teixeira-Gomes Prize

2002 Richard Zenith The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa (Penguin) 2nd: Margaret Jull Costa The Migrant Painter of Birds by Lidia Jorge (Harvill)

1998 Landeg White The Lusídas by Luis Vaz de Camões (OUP)

1995 Giovanni Pontiero The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by Jose Saramago (Harvill)

1992 Margaret Jull Costa The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa (Serpent’s Tail), Nicholas Round Freiluis de Sousa by Almeida Garrett (unpublished)