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LITERARY ESSAY PRIZE 2026

We would now like to continue this tribute to the co-founder of the APEAA with an annual prize for an essay by emerging Portuguese scholars focusing on the English-speaking world. The winner will receive a prize of €500 and the essay will be published in the Op. Cit. journal.

Essays should be submitted by 15 February 2026.

According to regulation number 4, the jury will comprise the following members: Adriana Martins (President of the APEAA assembly), Alexandra Cheira (Editor-in-Chief of Op. Cit.), Isabel Alves (President of the APEAA) and Teresa Cid (Guest Member).

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PRIZE I – 2008

The prize was awarded for the first time at the 29th APEAA Meeting in Aveiro, in 2008. The jury unanimously distinguished the essay entitled “O passado em exibição: leituras da época vitoriana em The French Lieutenant’s Woman e Possession”, by Ana Cristina Ferreira Mendes. 

Later, in 2013, the essay was published by Edições Cosmos, with the title O Passado em Exibição: Leituras Pós-modernistas da Época Vitoriana.

PRIZE II – 2009

The second edition of the prize distinguished Andreia Abreu’s essay “Gertrude Stein e o Cubismo Literário”, which was also published by Cosmos in 2013.

PRIZE III – 2013

Given that in 2010, 2011 and 2012 the proposals submitted did not meet the numerical requirements for the prize (four being the minimum required), the 3rd edition of the prize was awarded in 2013. The ceremony took place at the 34th meeting of the APEAA, at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon, on 9-10 May.

The 3rd edition of the prize distinguished Álvaro Seiça‘s essay, entitled “Transdução: Processos de Transferência na Literatura e Artes Digitais“.

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