Livros e leitores, quem devora o quê? breves observações sobre premiar livros imaginando leitores juvenis.

Abstract

This theoretical-reflective work begins by going through and listing the regulations for prizes awarded to Portuguese youth literature in the database of the Direção Geral do Livros, Arquivos e Bibliotecas (DGLAB). Based on the conclusive synthesis of this analysis of the contents that the juries should take into account in their selection, we draw the profile that may contribute to the definition of a literary condition that the ―awarding institution‖ conditions. And we will give our opinion on the importance that is shown to these award-winning characteristics, from the perspective of those who intend to train reading mediators: autonomous, updated and committed to prolonging their literary taste and influence others. Basically, what we can come to consider a ―school of literary readers‖. We will give as an example the case of Afonso Cruz and his Os livros que devoraram o meu pai from our own personal experience as a member of the jury in 2009.