Overview

• Brazil’s National Library Foundation announced the decision on Oct. 8 following a virtual meeting of the six-member multinational jury.
• The award includes €100,000 and a formal diploma to be signed by the presidents of Brazil and Portugal.
• Jurors highlighted her lyricism across poetry, chronicle and fiction, noting anthropological and historical dimensions in her work.
• The 2025 panel comprised José Carlos Seabra Pereira, Ana Mafalda Leite, Francisco Noa, Lucia Santaella, Arno Wehling and Lopito Feijó.
• Tavares, born in Huíla in 1952, has published more than ten books and previously earned the Prémio Mário António de Poesia and Angola’s National Culture and Arts Prize.