Prémio Pessoa

The Prémio Pessoa is a Portuguese award instituted in 1987 by the newspaper "Expresso" and the Unisys Company. It is granted annually to the person of Portuguese nationality who during this period, and in the course of previous activity, has distinguished him or herself as a figure in scientific, artistic or literary life.

List of prize winners

* 1987 José Mattoso, historian
* 1988 António Ramos Rosa, poet
* 1989 Maria João Pires, pianist
* 1990 Menez, painter
* 1991 Cláudio Torres, archaeologist
* 1992 António Damásio and Hanna Damásio, neurophysiologists
* 1993 Fernando Gil, philosopher and poet
* 1994 Herberto Helder, poet - refused the award
* 1995 Vasco Graça Moura, essayist
* 1996 João Lobo Antunes, neurosurgeon
* 1997 José Cardoso Pires, writer
* 1998 Eduardo Souto de Moura, architect
* 1999 Manuel Alegre, poet, and José Manuel Rodrigues, photographer
* 2000 Emmanuel Nunes, composer
* 2001 João Bénard da Costa, president of the Cinemateca Portuguesa—Museu do Cinema, and a film historian
* 2002 Manuel Sobrinho Simões, researcher
* 2003 José Gomes Canotilho, constitutionalist
* 2004 Mário Cláudio, writer
* 2005 Luís Miguel Cintra, actor and set designer
* 2006 António Câmara, professor and founder of the YDreams IT firm
* 2007 Irene Pimentel, historian.

"Translated from the Portuguese Wikipedia"

External links

http://www.premiopessoa.pt/