Africa-Press – Cape verde. The cultural coordinator of UCCLA, Rui d ́Ávila Lourido, today called on Cape Verdeans who know how to write to apply for the UCCLA/Lisbon City Council Literary Revelation Award, whose applications for this year’s edition are open and will run until December.
This representative of the Union of Portuguese-Speaking Capital Cities (UCCLA) made this appeal in statements to Inforpress on the sidelines of the extension of the 12th edition of the Meeting of Portuguese-Speaking Writers, which took place this Sunday in the municipality of Tarrafal, in the interior of Santiago.
The literary event, promoted by UCCLA and the Praia City Council, had been taking place since Thursday, the 5th, in Praia, on the theme “Literature, Freedom and Inclusion” and paying tribute to Amílcar Cabral and Luís de Camões.
“I appeal to all Cape Verdeans who know how to write and have the desire to write fiction or any book of literature, poetry or any other literary genre to do so”, he requested.
As he revealed, there are still few Cape Verdeans who participate in this competition, which, he recalled, has no age limit.
“Therefore, I appeal to you to apply for this UCCLA-CMLisboa Literary Revelation Award – New Talents, New Works in Portuguese Language”, insisted this official, who spoke on behalf of UCCLA.
If this happens, he guaranteed that Cape Verdean literature will be enhanced.
The Brazilian Fernanda Teixeira Ribeiro was the winner of the 9th edition of the UCCLA-CMLisboa Literary Revelation Award – New Talents, New Works in Portuguese Language, with the work “Cantagalo”.
This edition also received two honourable mentions, one for the poem “Chão de Saibro” by Brazilian Frederico da Cruz Vieira de Sousa, and the novel “A Sintaxe da Guerra” by Angolan author Joaquim Njungo Jeremias.
In the ninth edition, 168 entries were received from 15 countries, namely Portuguese-speaking African countries (PALOP), including Cape Verde with 11 entries, Portugal, Senegal, East Timor, Brazil, Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and Israel.
The jury included Germano Almeida (Cape Verde), Domício Proença (Brazil), Hélder Simbad (Angola), Inocência Mata (São Tomé and Príncipe), José Pires Laranjeira (Portugal), Luís Carlos Patraquim (Mozambique), Luís Costa (East Timor), Tony Tcheka (Guinea-Bissau), Yao Jing Ming (Macau), Rui Lourido (representative of the UCCLA) and João Pinto de Sousa (representative of the 800 Years of the Portuguese Language Movement).
The winners of the 8th edition of the UCCLA-CML Literary Revelation Award were the Brazilian André Bueno with the work “Sentido Litoral” and the Portuguese Leonel Barbosa with the work “Breviário de Medo e Malícia”.
In the 7th edition, the winners were Brazilian Alexandre Siloto Assine with the poetry text “Caligrafia”, and Portuguese Ricardo Manuel Ferreira de Almeida with the novel “Três dias em Fevereiro”.
As for the winning works, in 2021 it was “O Sonho de Amadeu”, by Brazilian Leonardo Costa Oliveira, in 2020, “O Heterónimo de Pedra”, by Portuguese Henrique Reinaldo Castanheira, and in 2019, “Praças”, by Portuguese native of Angola António Pedro Serrano de Sousa Correia.
In 2018, “Equilíbrio Distante” by Óscar Maldonado, a Paraguayan national living in São Paulo, Brazil; in 2017, “Diário de Cão” by Thiago Rodrigues Braga, a Brazilian national born in Corumbá, Goiás, Brazil; and in 2016, “Era uma vez um Homem” by João Nuno Azambuja, a Portuguese national were the works awarded this prize.
The prize, created in 2015, is an initiative of UCCLA in conjunction with the Movimento 800 anos da Língua Portuguesa (800 Years of the Portuguese Language Movement), and in 2020 it established partnerships with the publisher Guerra e Paz, which will be responsible for publishing the award-winning work, and the Lisbon City Council, within the scope of the Lisbon Literary Festival – 5L.
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