{"id":38574,"date":"2023-07-01T18:06:26","date_gmt":"2023-07-01T18:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/?p=38574"},"modified":"2023-07-01T18:29:14","modified_gmt":"2023-07-01T18:29:14","slug":"jose-luis-mendonca-launches-second-edition-of-as-metamorfoses-do-elefante","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/jose-luis-mendonca-launches-second-edition-of-as-metamorfoses-do-elefante","title":{"rendered":"Jos\u00e9 Lu\u00eds Mendon\u00e7a launches second edition of \u201cAs Metamorfoses do Elefante\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Angola. <\/strong><\/span>The Angolan writer Jose\u0301 Lui\u0301s Mendonc\u0327a, this Friday, in Luanda, relaunched the book \u201cAs Metamorfose do Elefante\u201d, a historical fiction of Angola in the post-colonial period and social current affairs.<\/b><\/p>\n

The book, which features texts from various literary genres, is published by Mayamba Editora and has 200 pages.<\/p>\n

The story wanders through illustrations such as chameleons, hyenas, a black fire cow, flying goats, a hawk with round wings and an elephant that, with different faces, represents power, in a country shaped by the vendetta of the 27th of May 1977, whose heritage greater is inhumane political repression.<\/p>\n

The writer who talks about the adventures that marked a date in the history of independent Angola, based on the personification of an animal, revealed by a dream, underlines that the book is not a reissue of the first published in Portugal, but the same, since the Angolan public, so demanded.<\/p>\n

Jose\u0301 Lui\u0301s Mendonc\u0327a also personifies the Covid-19 pandemic, which turned into an outbreak like laughter, \u201chalf of Luanda has laughter and the other half does not\u201d.<\/p>\n

To readers, the writer, who is marked by the rigor of his publications, promises, in the near future, if there are interested publishers, the publication of the already finished poetry book with the title \u201cEsse Pai\u0301s Chamo Corpo de Mulher\u201d.<\/p>\n

Jose\u0301 Lui\u0301s Mendonc\u0327a was born in 1955, in Golungo Alto, province of Cuanza Norte.<\/p>\n

He is winner of the Sagrada Esperanc\u0327a award, Jogos Florales do Caxinde, Angola Thirty Years, as well as the National Prize for Culture and Arts in the Literature category.<\/p>\n

Jose\u0301 Lui\u0301s Mendonc\u0327a published the books: \u201cO Reino das Casuarinas\u201d, \u201cLuanda Stay Longe and Other Austral Stories\u201d, \u201cAngola, Tell Me Still\u201d, \u201cA Song for Mussuemba\u201d, among others.<\/p>\n

In 2018, after leaving the Union of Angolan Writers and the Angolan Academy of Letters, he founded the Movement of New Intellectuals of Angola, from 1948, to rescue the legacy of the precursors of Angolan Literature.<\/p>\n

In 2021, he won the SADC Journalism Award, in the Press category.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Angola. The Angolan writer Jose\u0301 Lui\u0301s Mendonc\u0327a, this Friday, in Luanda, relaunched the book \u201cAs Metamorfose do Elefante\u201d, a historical fiction of Angola in the post-colonial period and social current affairs. The book, which features texts from various literary genres, is published by Mayamba Editora and has 200 pages. 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