The Oceanos - Prêmio de Literatura em Língua Portuguesa is Brazil-based but open to any Portuguese-language literature.
Really open: admirably, and like every literary prize should (but far too few do ...), it reveals all the books in the running for the prize -- in this case 592 submissions (warning ! dreaded pdf format !) (putting the Man Booker to shame both in the number of titles considered, and in its openness in admitting what those titles are).
The 100,000 reais (a bit more than US$25,000, currently) prize has a decent track record: winners include Gonçalo M. Tavares (2007, with Jerusalem) and Chico Buarque (2010). They've now announced this year's fourteen finalists (warning ! dreaded pdf format !) (and Buarque again is in the running).
The 100,000 reais (a bit more than US$25,000, currently) prize has a decent track record: winners include Gonçalo M. Tavares (2007, with Jerusalem) and Chico Buarque (2010). They've now announced this year's fourteen finalists (warning ! dreaded pdf format !) (and Buarque again is in the running).