Prémio Pessoa
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The Prémio Pessoa is a Portuguese
award instituted in 1987 by the newspaper Expresso
and the IT company Unisys
. It is granted annually to the person of Portuguese nationality who during this period, and in the course of previous activity, has distinguished him or herself as a figure in scientific, artistic or literary life.
Unisys co-founded and sponsored the prize from 1987 to 2007. From 2008 the prize has been sponsored by Caixa Geral de Depósitos
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Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
award instituted in 1987 by the newspaper Expresso
Expresso
Expresso is a common misspelling of the word espresso. The term with an X may also refer to:* eXpresso, a hosted workspace for Microsoft Office communities* Expresso , the flagship publication of the Group IMPRESA...
and the IT company Unisys
Unisys
Unisys Corporation , headquartered in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, United States, and incorporated in Delaware, is a long established business whose core products now involves computing and networking.-History:...
. It is granted annually to the person of Portuguese nationality who during this period, and in the course of previous activity, has distinguished him or herself as a figure in scientific, artistic or literary life.
Unisys co-founded and sponsored the prize from 1987 to 2007. From 2008 the prize has been sponsored by Caixa Geral de Depósitos
Caixa Geral de Depósitos
Caixa Geral de Depósitos is a Portuguese state-owned banking corporation and the largest bank in Portugal.- History :*1876 — Caixa Geral de Depósitos was founded under the aegis of the Junta de Crédito Público....
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List of prize winners
- 1987 José MattosoJosé MattosoJose João da Conceição Gonçalves Mattoso is a Portuguese medievalist historian, and university teacher.Doctorated in medieval history at the Catholic University of Leuven, in Belgium, in 1966 , while he was Benedictine monk at the abbey of Singeverga...
, historian - 1988 António Ramos Rosa, poet
- 1989 Maria João PiresMaria João Pires-Musical studies:Her first recital was at the age of five, and at the age of seven she was already playing Mozart Piano Concertos publicly. Two years later she received Portugal's top prize for young musicians. In the following years, she studied with Professor Campos Coelho at the Lisbon...
, pianist - 1990 Menez, painter
- 1991 Cláudio Torres, archaeologist
- 1992 António DamásioAntonio DamasioAntonio Damasio is David Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Southern California, where he heads USC's Brain and Creativity Institute and Adjunct Professor at the Salk Institute. Prior to taking up his posts at USC, in 2005, Damasio was M.W...
and Hanna DamásioHanna DamásioHanna Damasio is Dana Dornsife Chair in Neuroscience and Professor of Psychology and Neurology at the University of Southern California where she directs the Dornsife Neuroimaging Center. She is also an adjunct professor at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California...
, neurophysiologists - 1993 Fernando Gil, philosopher and poet
- 1994 Herberto HelderHerberto HélderHerberto Hélder de Oliveira is a Portuguese poet. He was born in Funchal, Madeira.- Biography :Herberto Helder was born into a family of Jewish ancestry in the Portuguese Atlantic island of Madeira. In 1946 he traveled to Lisbon to complete his secondary studies and subsequently in 1948 moved to...
, poet - refused the award - 1995 Vasco Graça MouraVasco Graça MouraVasco Navarro da Graça Moura, OSE is a Portuguese lawyer, writer, translator and politician, son of Francisco José da Graça Moura and wife Maria Teresa Amado da Cunha Seixas Navarro de Castro, of Northern Portugal bourgeoisie.He was a Member of the European Parliament for the Social Democratic...
, essayist - 1996 João Lobo AntunesJoão Lobo AntunesJoão Lobo Antunes, MD ; born 4 June 1944) is a Portuguese neurosurgeon.-Life and career:João Lobo Antunes was born in Lisbon as the second of six sons of João Alfredo de Figueiredo Lobo Antunes , prominent Neurologist and Professor, close collaborator of Egas Moniz, Nobel prize of physiology, and...
, neurosurgeon - 1997 José Cardoso PiresJosé Cardoso PiresJosé Cardoso Pires, ComL, GCM was a Portuguese author of short stories, novels, plays, and political satire.-Origins and formative influences:Born in the village of São João do Peso, municipailty of Vila de Rei, Castelo Branco district...
, writer - 1998 Eduardo Souto de MouraEduardo Souto de Moura-Life and career:Souto de Moura was born in Porto, and studied sculpture before switching to architecture at the School of Fine Arts of the University of Porto, the current FAUP - Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto, and receiving his degree in 1980. From 1974 to 1979 he worked with...
, architect - 1999 Manuel AlegreManuel AlegreManuel Alegre de Melo Duarte, GCL , is a Portuguese poet and politician, member of the Socialist Party, and a candidate to the Portuguese presidential election, 2006...
, poet, and José Manuel Rodrigues, photographer - 2000 Emmanuel NunesEmmanuel Nunes-Biography:Nunes was born in Lisbon, where he studied composition, first from 1959 to 1963 at the Academia de Amadores de Música with Francine Benoit, and then with Fernando Lopes Graça at the University . He then attended courses at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse , and in 1964 moved to Paris...
, 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 CâmaraAntónio CâmaraAntónio Câmara is a Professor at the Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa and has been a Visiting Professor at both Cornell University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
, professor and founder of the YDreamsYDreamsYDreams is an interactive technology company headquartered in Lisbon, Portugal, with offices in Barcelona, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and New York City...
IT firm - 2007 Irene Pimentel, historian
- 2008 Carrilho da GraçaCarrilho da GraçaJoão Luís Carrilho da Graça, , graduated from ESBAL in 1977 and lectured at the faculty of architecture of the Technical University of Lisbon between 1977 and 1992....
, architect - 2009 Manuel Clemente, bishop of PortoPortoPorto , also known as Oporto in English, is the second largest city in Portugal and one of the major urban areas in the Iberian Peninsula. Its administrative limits include a population of 237,559 inhabitants distributed within 15 civil parishes...
- 2010 Maria do Carmo Fonseca, scientist and Professor of the School of Medicine of Santa Maria
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