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Moser Prize

LITERARY ESSAY PRIZE 2026
We are happy to announce that António Pedro Barreiro is the winner of the 2026 Mello Moser Prize for his essay, “A voz que clama no deserto: O tempo e a eternidade em T. S. Eliot.”
António Pedro Barreiro holds both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in political science and international relations from the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, where he also completed an integrated master’s degree in theology. He currently serves as an adviser to the President's Office of the Assembly of the Republic. He is also pursuing an Executive MBA at AESE Business School. He has received several literary and academic awards. In 2025, he was awarded the Memoshoá Yvette Davidoff Research Prize for his study “A flor e o fogo: O grupo Weiße Rose e o papel das consciências na resistência ao nazismo.” He has published articles in the Observador and The Hedgehog Review, among others.
The jury for the 2026 edition of the prize comprised 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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LITERARY ESSAY PRIZE
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.

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