Africa-Press – Angola. Angolan writer Nituecheni Africano won the Best Novel category of the 2nd edition of the WBR International Literary Prize for Latin America, with the work “O Recluso – the principle and end of an injustice”.
The results of the competition, with 46 competitors, of which 25 were finalists, were announced last Sunday by the event organizers.
The information was confirmed, this Monday, by the writer Nituecheni Africano, literary pseudonym of Eugénio Afonso Gaspar, who says he competed in the event, the basis of popular voting on the organization’s website, with another Angolan.
He added that the awards gala will take place on April 14th, in Mexico.
He explained that the book, under the seal of Sachi publisher, with 150 pages, subdivided into 12 chapters, was written in 2015 and published on August 8, 2023 at the headquarters of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP) in Portugal.
The work brings themes about influence peddling, abuse of power, secrets of a defendant and the judge, as well as the wisdom and cunning of a lawyer.
Writer profile
It is recalled that Nituecheni Africano, 33 years old, won, in 2022, the category of Best Novel of the IV edition of the Great Literary Competition of Latin America, with the work entitled “The Immigrant of the Web and His Follies”, which includes 63 pages and edited by the Association of Young Writers of Angola.
The event, the basis for voting, was attended by 192 writers from various countries, particularly Latin America, who competed in several categories, with Nituecheni being African, the only representative of the continent “the cradle of humanity”.
At the beginning of 2023, he was appointed ambassador of literature in five African countries, by the Brazilian magazine Word-Book Revier.
These are Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Sierra Leone and Uganda, through solidarity financing, which began on April 3 of this year.
In October 2023, he was awarded the “Literary Reference” award in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), in an initiative by the Brazilian publisher Publiart.
He is the only Angolan representative recognized in the second edition of the event, considered the second biggest award in the history of the Brazilian literary world, after the “Jabuti Prize”.
He is one of the three Angolans who are among the 50 most outstanding cultural figures on the African continent, according to the French magazine “Le Point”.
To date, he has four literary works, namely “O Prisioneiro do Amor”, with 255, “O Vendedor de Pães As Mos”, with 145 pages, and “O Imigrante da Web e Sua Folices”, with 63 and “Reclusos ”, with 153 pages.
Born in the province of Huambo, on September 12, 1990, writer Eugénio Afonso Gaspar has a degree in IT and Business Administration from the Technical University of Angola (UTANGA).
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