Mozambique: Francisco Noa joins the Lisbon Academy of Sciences

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Mozambique: Francisco Noa joins the Lisbon Academy of Sciences

2:47 CAT | 08 Aug 2023

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Professor and literary critic Francisco Noa became a member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences in July.

The Mozambican academic occupies a Lisbon Academy of Sciences seat among other notable foreign corresponding members in the literature class such as José Paulo Cavalcanti, Maria Encarnação Beltrão Sposito, Roberto Vecchi, Michel Dupuis, Allan Williams, Marc Flandreau and James Galbraith.

Noa said he received the invitation to join the Lisbon Academy with a mixture of satisfaction and increased responsibility, saying: “Moreover, I felt deeply honoured and privileged to become part of such a reputable and reputable institution.”

Francisco Noa explained that his entry into the intercontinental Lusophony organisation could mean a greater projection of Mozambican literature, a challenge he takes on jointly with writer Mia Couto and Professor Lourenço de Rosário, who are also members.

Founded more than two centuries ago, in December 1779, the Lisbon Academy of Sciences brings together an enormous intellectual and scientific constellation, with a remarkable diversity of thinkers and scientists, and highlights action in encouraging scientific research and the study of Portuguese language and literature.

Thanks to work carried out by the Academy’s Institute of Lexicology and Lexicography, it was possible in 2001, after 13 years of research and preparation, to publish the “Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa Contemporânea”, the first and most complete work of its kind focusing on the Portuguese lexicon, with about 70,000 entries.

Source: Notícias