Mozambican writer Paulina Chiziane wins Camões Prize

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Mozambican writer Paulina Chiziane wins Camões Prize
Mozambican writer Paulina Chiziane wins Camões Prize

Africa-PressMozambique. Mozambican writer Paulina Chiziane is the winner of the Camões Prize 2021, in a choice made unanimously, Portuguese Culture Minister Graça Fonseca announced.

“The jury unanimously decided to award the prize to Mozambican writer Paulina Chiziane, highlighting her vast production and critical reception, as well as the academic and institutional recognition of her work”.

The jury also mentioned the importance that she dedicates in her books to the problems of Mozambican and African women. The jury underlined her recent work in reaching out to young people, namely in building bridges between literature and other arts.

Paulina Chiziane “has been translated in many countries and is today one of the best-known voices in African fiction, having received several prizes and decorations”.

Paulina Chiziane was born in Manjacaze, Mozambique, in 1955. She studied linguistics in Maputo. She currently lives and works in Zambezia.

Fiction writer, she has published several short stories in the press.

She published her first novel, “Balada de Amor ao Vento” (1990), after the country’s independence, which is also the first novel by a Mozambican woman.

” Ventos do Apocalipse”, finished in 1991, was published in Maputo, in 1993, by the author and was published in Portugal, by Caminho, in 1999, preceding the publication of “Balada de Amor ao Vento”, in Portugal, by the same publisher, in 2003.

Caminho also has other titles by the author published in Portugal: “Sétimo Juramento” (2000), “Niketche: Uma História de Poligamia” (2002), “O Alegre Canto da Perdiz” (2008).

Her work also includes “As Andorinhas” (2009), “Na mão de Deus” and “Por Quem Vibram os Tambores do Além” (2013), “Ngoma Yethu: O curandeiro e o Novo Testamento” (2015), “O Canto dos Escravos” (2017), “O Curandeiro e o Novo Testamento” (2018).

The jury for the 33rd edition of the Camões Prize was made up of university professors Ana Martinho and Carlos Mendes de Sousa (Portugal), writer and researcher Jorge Alves de Lima and university professor Raul César Fernandes (Brazil), and writers Tony Tcheka (Guinea-Bissau) and Teresa Manjate (Mozambique).

In Brazil, only the work “Niketche: Uma História de Poligamia” has been published.

The Camões Award for literature in Portuguese language was established by Portugal and Brazil, with the purpose of distinguishing an author “whose work contributes to the projection and recognition of the literary and cultural heritage of the common language”.

According to the text of the constituent protocol, signed in Brasilia on 22 June 1988 and published in November of the same year, the award annually honours “a Portuguese-speaking author who, by the intrinsic value of his work, has contributed to the enrichment of the literary and cultural heritage of the common language”.

It was first awarded in 1989 to the writer Miguel Torga.

In 2019, the prize distinguished the Brazilian musician and writer Chico Buarque, author of “Leite Derramado” and “Budapeste”, among other works; in 2020, the Portuguese professor and essayist Vitor Aguiar e Silva

The Camões Prize was awarded to Mozambican writers twice before Paulina Chiziane: José Craveirinha (1991) and Mia Couto (2013).

Camões Prize for Literature

1989

Miguel Torga

1990

João Cabral de Melo Neto

1991

José Craveirinha

1992

Vergílio Ferreira

1993

Rachel de Queiroz

1994

Jorge Amado

1995

José Saramago

1996

Eduardo Lourenço

1997

“Pepetela”-Artur Carlos Maurício Pestana dos Santos

1998

António Cândido de Mello e Sousa

1999

Sophia de Mello Breyner

2000

Autran Dourado

2001

Eugénio de Andrade

2002

Maria Velho da Costa

2003

Rubem Fonseca

2004

Agustina Bessa-Luís

2005

Lygia Fagundes Telles

2006

José Luandino Vieira – refused

2007

António Lobo Antunes

2008

João Ubaldo Ribeiro

2009

Arménio Vieira

2010

Ferreira Gullar

2011

Manuel António Pina

2012

Dalton Trevisan

2013

Mia Couto

2014

Alberto da Costa e Silva

2015

Hélia Correia

2016

Raduan Nassar

2017

Manuel Alegre

2018

Germano Almeida

2019

Chico Buarque

2020

Vítor Manuel de Aguiar e Silva

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