Faro awards the António Ramos Rosa Poetry Grand Prize to AM Pires Cabral

The Faro Municipal Library will host, on September 17th, at 6 pm, the ceremony to award the António Ramos Rosa Grand Poetry Prize to the poet AM Pires Cabral for his book «Na morte de Erato» (Tinta-da-China).

The program includes speeches by the Mayor of Faro, Rogério Bacalhau, the President of the Board of the Portuguese Writers Association, José Manuel Mendes, the jury spokesperson, Ana Isabel Soares and the award winner, AM Pires Cabral.

There will also be a poetry performance by Sara Martins.

The António Ramos Rosa Poetry Grand Prize, organized by the Portuguese Writers Association , is sponsored by Faro City Council and aims to annually award a work of poetry, in Portuguese, published in full and in its first edition.

In this edition, 59 books published in 2024 were admitted.

It should be noted that the monetary value of this Grand Prize is, for the distinguished author, 12,500.00 (twelve thousand and five hundred euros).

About the award-winning poet:

AM Pires Cabral was born in Chacim, Macedo de Cavaleiros, in 1941. He graduated in Germanic Philology. He was a teacher and cultural animator, responsible for Vila Real's participation in the Council of Europe's Project 5.2 ("Cultural Policies in Cities") and co-organizer of the Vila Real Camillian Conferences. He is known primarily as a fiction writer and poet.

In the field of fiction, he has published eight books of short stories and six novels to date, having won the Círculo de Leitores Prize (with «Sancirilo»), the Camilo Castelo Branco Short Story Grand Prize (with «O Porco de Erimanto») and the DST Literature Grand Prize (with «O Cónego»).

In this same collection, he published «O Quartel» and the novel «Feliciano» (2021).

In the field of poetry, he made his debut in 1974 with «Algures a Nordeste» and has published 20 titles to date.

He was awarded the D. Dinis Prize (with «What Train Is This?» and «Douro: Pizzicato and Chula»), the Luís Miguel Nava Prize (with «As Têmporas da Cinza»), the PEN Club (with «Arado»), the SPA Authors Prize 2014 (with «Gaveta do Fundo»), and the João de Deus National Literary Prize 2021 (with «Frentes de Fogo»). In 2022, he was awarded the António Gedeão Poetry Prize and the Ruy Belo Prize.

Photo: Póvoa de Varzim City Council.