António Carlos Cortez’s book wins the António Gedeão Poetry Prize
‘Jaguar’, by António Carlos Cortez, edited by Don Quixote in 2019, was considered by the jury “an innovative work, a work of prosopoemas made, a poem ‘terrible hunt’, made symbolic and alchemical in an animal physique, not stripped of pulsation emotional, at the same time a critical journey through the western poetic tradition from which the unmistakable uniqueness of this voice emerges “.
António Carlos Cortez, born in Lisbon in 1976, is a professor of Portuguese Literature and a researcher of Modern and Contemporary Literature, at the Center for Portuguese and European Literature and Cultures at the University of Lisbon.
Poet, essayist and literary critic, he is the author of ‘Depois de Dezembro’, ‘O Nome Negro’, ‘Animais Feridos’ and ‘A Dor Concreta’, with which he won the Teixeira de Pascoaes Poetry Prize from the Portuguese Writers Association, in 2018.
Established by Fenprof with the support of the insurance company SABSEG, the Poetry Prize António Gedeão has already distinguished ‘Oblívio‘, by Daniel Jonas, in 2018, ‘A Convergência dos Ventos’, by Nuno Júdice, in 2016, ‘Pequeno Treaty das Figuras’, by Manuel Gusmão, in 2014, and ‘Vozes’, by Ana Luísa Amaral, in 2012.
This award alternates with the Tavares Rodrigues Urban Literary Prize, for fiction works, which was won in 2019 by Luísa Costa Gomes, in 2017 by Isabela Figueiredo, in 2015 by Lídia Jorge, and in 2013 by Ana Cristina Silva.
