FLAD names literary prize for emerging PALOP writers after Mozambican poet Eduardo Costley-White

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FLAD names literary prize for emerging PALOP writers after Mozambican poet Eduardo Costley-White

2:14 CAT | 05 Feb 2016

In file Club of Mozambique / Mozambican poet Eduardo White.

The Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD) and publisher Edições Esgotadas have together launched the Eduardo Costley-White Literary Prize for emerging writers from Portuguese-speaking African countries (PALOPs).

The award takes its name from Eduardo Costley-White, a Mozambican writer who died at age 50 in 2014 and guarantees an Edições Esgotadas edition of the work. The prize money amounts to 10,000 euros.

Writers from Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Guinea and Sao Tome and Principe can submit entries via the FLAD website up to the closing date of 15 April.

“The initiative celebrates the 800th anniversary of the Portuguese language and honours one of the leading exponents of Mozambican poetry,” a FLAD statement sent to Lusa reads.

Eduardo Costley-White was born in Quelimane, Zambézia province, the son of Portuguese mother and English father. He began his published career in 1984 with the work ‘Amar sobre o Índico’ (“Loving over the Indic”).

White belonged to the literary generation who founded the ‘Charrua’ (Plough) Magazine, and was a prominent member of the Association of Mozambican Writers (AEMO).

Costley-White published more than a dozen titles. His works include “Homoíne”, “O País de Mim (My Country),” “Poemas da Ciência de Voar e da Engenharia de Ser Ave (The Science of the Science of Flying and the Engineering of Being a Bird)”, “Desafio à Tristeza (Challenge to Sadness)”, “Os Materiais do Amor” (The Materials Of Love)” , “O Manual das Mãos (The Manual Of Hands)”, “A Mecânica Lunar (Lunar Mechanics)”, “A Escrita Desassossegada (Restless Writing)”.

The Mozambican Press Association voted him literary figure of the year in 2001, and his anthology “O Libreto da Miséria (The Libretto of Hardship)” won the BCI Prize for Literature in 2012.

Eduardo White also won the National Award of Mozambican poetry, the Rui de Noronha Consecration Prize and the José Craveirinha Great Prize for Literature of Mozambique.

Source: Notícias ao Minuto / Lusa / Publico