Janus Pannonius International Poetry Prize – 2017

The Hungarian PEN Club announces that the Board of Trustees of the Janus Pannonius Foundation has awarded the 2017 Janus Pannonius International Poetry Grand Prize to the Brazilian poet AUGUSTO de CAMPOS.

Also known as the Nobel Prize for Poetry, the €50,000 cash prize has been awarded in recent years to the Persian poet Simin Behbahanian,t he French poet Yves Bonnefoy, the Syrian poet Adonis Ali Ahmad Sa’id Asbar, the American poet Charles Bernstein, the Italian poet Giuseppe Conte and Athe Polish poet Adam Zagajewski. In 2017, Augusto de Campos was awarded the Janus Pannonius Grand Prize for Poetry.

The award ceremony for perhaps the world’s most prestigious poetry prize is held on on 23 September 2017 in Pécs, in the Csontváry Hall of the Janus Pannonius Museum, and on 24 September in Budapest, in the Uránia Film Theatre, with a gala event and book launch, where the winner will sign a book of poems in Hungarian published for the occasion.

Every year, the six-member international jury also awards two prizes for literary translation. In 2017, Hans-Henning Paetzke will receive the prize of €3,000 for translating Hungarian works into foreign languages, and Ádám Nádasdy will receive the prize for translating foreign works into Hungarian.

Budapest, 8 September 2017

Géza Szőcs

President of the Hungarian PEN Club