The Strength of the Portuguese Language in the World
03 September 2025 - 16:50 | 17:10
In a world dominated by major bestsellers in English, how to give more visibility to literature in Portuguese? This session discusses strategies to reinforce the presence of the Portuguese language in the global book market and to value one of the most spoken languages in the world.
How to project Portuguese-language literature in a world dominated by foreign bestsellers? What strategies are being taken in Europe to counter the hegemony of reading in English and how can we apply them in Portugal?
With approximately 300 million speakers, Portuguese is the 5th most spoken language in the world, the 3rd most spoken in the western hemisphere, and the most spoken in the southern hemisphere of the planet.