Pessoa Prize

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
• 2008 – Carrilho da Graça, architect
• 2009 – Manuel Clemente, Catholic Church prelate
• 2010 – Maria do Carmo Fonseca, scientist and Professor of the School of Medicine of Santa Maria
• 2011 – Eduardo Lourenço, essayist
• 2012 – Richard Zenith, writer and translator
• 2013 – Maria Manuel Mota, scientist
• 2014 – Henrique Leitão, Physicist, Professor and researcher in the field of History of Sciences
• 2015 – Rui Chafes, sculptor
• 2016 – Frederico Lourenço, writer and translator
• 2017 – Manuel Aires Mateus, architect
• 2018 – Miguel Bastos Araújo, geographer
• 2019 – Tiago Rodrigues, theatre director