Oceanos-Prêmio de Literatura em Língua Portuguesa (until 2014 Portugal Telecom Prize for Literature Portuguese: ''Prêmio Portugal Telecom de Literatura'') is a Brazilian

literary award A literary award or literary prize is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded Literature, literary piece or body of work. It is normally presented to an author. Organizations Most literary awards come with a corresponding award c ...

established in 2003 by

Portugal Telecom Altice Portugal S.A. (formerly known as PT Portugal) is the largest telecommunications service provider in Portugal. Since 2 June 2015 the company has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Altice, a multinational cable and telecommunications company ...

and awarded annually to Brazilian literature. From 2007 onwards,

Portuguese-language Portuguese ( or ) is a Western Romance language of the Indo-European language family originating from the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. It is the official language of Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal and São Tom ...

works from other countries are also eligible. In 2014 Portugal Telecom was bought by the French company Altice. From 2015 on, the prize was named Oceanos- Prêmio de Literatura em Língua Portuguesa (''Oceans- Portuguese Language Literature Prize'') sponsored by

Itaú Cultural Instituto Itaú Cultural is a Brazilian not-for-profit cultural institute owned by Itaú Unibanco Banco Itaú Unibanco S.A. is a Brazilian financial services company headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil. Itaú Unibanco was formed through the ...

foundation.

Winners

References

External links

Official website
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