The Portuguese writer José Luís Peixoto is the winner of the Oceans – Prize for Literature in the Portuguese Language, organized by the Itaú Cultural in Brazil.
it Was with the novel Galveias, released in Portugal by the Guatemalan in October 2014, the Portuguese writer convinced the jury, formed by the professor and essayist Beatriz Resende, by the writers Cristovão Tezza, Joseph Castello and Rodrigo Lacerda and by the poets Heitor Ferraz Mello e Sérgio Alcides.
The title of the book is a tribute to the town of alentejo, where the writer was born 42 years ago. To the jury, is "a dip in the 'Portugal deep' and rural, whose narrative aligns the characters emblematic of the universe archaic from an event (the fall of a meteorite in Galveias)", can be read on the page of the prize. It is this event that gives the plot "a cosmic sense in that community that is extinguished between the rustic violence, desolation, gloom, and the clash with modernity."
The other award winners are all brazilians. The second place was also for a novel, in the case of Julián Fuks, writer on the rise, for the romance The Resistance. It was edited in Portugal this year by Companhia das Letras.
The volume of poetry, The book of the similarities to, Ana Martins Marques, got the third place, and Arthur Brock was placed as the fourth winner, with the tales of Underestimated and other stories.
This is the second edition of the Oceans, which came to substitute the Prize Portugal Telecom. The winner gets 100 thousand reais, about 27 thousand euros to the current exchange rate.
The 10 finalists were chosen by a jury from a list of 50 works semi-finalists, from a group of 740 competing titles, of different genres – poetry, novel, tale, chronicle, and drama. Among the 10 final was the Portuguese writer Gonçalo M. Tavares, with the novel A little girl is lost in her century looking for the father.
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