Mozambican academic Lourenço do Rosário joins Camões Prize jury

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Mozambican academic Lourenço do Rosário joins Camões Prize jury

12:33 CAT | 26 Feb 2016

The Mozambican academic Lourenço do Rosário will join the jury of this year’s Camões Prize, the most important literary award for Portuguese-speaking authors.

According to Notícias, Lourenço do Rosário’s selection comes at the invitation of the Minister of Culture of Portugal, João Soares, and at the suggestion of the Portuguese General Directorate for Books, Archives and Libraries.

Since the Camões prize was inaugurated in 1989, when it was awarded to Portuguese poet and writer Miguel Torga, four authors from African Portuguese speaking countries have been distinguished.

Mozambicans José Craveirinha won the prize in 1991, and Mia Couto in 2013. Angolan Pepetela was honnoured in 1997,and the Cape Verdean author Arménio Vieira in 2009. Angolan author Luandino Vieira declined the honour in 2006.

Between 1989 and 2015 Portuguese authors Vergílio Ferreira (1992), José Saramago (1995), Eduardo Lourenço (1996), Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen (1999), Eugénio de Andrade (2001), Maria Velho da Costa (2002), Agustina Bessa-Luís (2004), António Lobo Antunes (2007) and Manuel António Pina (2011) won the prize

The Brazilian winners include Joao Cabral de Melo Neto (1990), Rachel de Queiroz (1993), Jorge Amado (1994), Antonio Candido (1998), Autran Dourado (2000), Rubem Fonseca (2003), Lygia Fagundes Telles ( 2005), João Ubaldo Ribeiro (2008), Gullar (2010), Dalton Trevisan (2012) and Alberto da Costa e Silva (2014).

Last year’s prize went to Portuguese writer Hélia Correia, author of “Montedemo” (1983), “Lilias Fraser” (2001). Brazilian poet, historian and autobiographer Alberto Costa e Silva won the award in 2014.

The literary prize is named after Luís Vaz de Camões, a renowned 16th century poet who lived in India, Malaca, Hormuz, Macau and the Island of Mozambique and died in abject poverty in Lisbon.

Source: Notícias