Gonçalo M. Tavares receives the Formentor Prize in Mallorca
The ceremony brings the award back to its birthplace and honours the Portuguese writer’s narrative experimentation.
Gonçalo M. Tavares received the 2026 Formentor Prize for Letters on 1 November at the Four Seasons Resort Mallorca in Port de Pollença, Balearic Islands. Announced in March and worth €50,000, the award thus returned to the Mallorcan landscape where it was founded. The jury recognised the originality with which the Portuguese writer challenges narrative conventions and addresses conflict, violence and contemporary uncertainty without predictable solutions. Regional president Marga Prohens attended the ceremony. The presentation reinforces the international dimension of a prize that, through its choice of Tavares, connects formal experimentation with an inquiry into the present and restores Formentor’s historic role as a meeting place for writers and readers.