Portugal’s PEN Awards’ winners announced: Teresa Noronha, José Manuel de Vasconcelos and Pedro Cabral

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Portugal’s PEN Awards’ winners announced: Teresa Noronha, José Manuel de Vasconcelos and Pedro Cabral

4:01 CAT | 10 Oct 2022

Authors Teresa Noronha, José Manuel de Vasconcelos and Pedro Cabral are the winners of the 2022 PEN awards for narrative, poetry and essays, it was announced today. Teresa Noronha is a Mozambican writer.

In a statement, the PEN Club Português announces that the jury has awarded the narrative prize to “Tornado”, by Teresa Noronha, the poetry prize to “Os Grande Lagos da Noite”, by José Manuel de Vasconcelos, and the essay prize to “O paradoxo do Cérebro”, by Pedro Cabral.

The note also announces that: “The Jury for the First Book Prize of the 2022 PEN Awards considered that, among the various works in the competition, none met the necessary requirements for the attribution of this Award.”

The prize award ceremony will take place on October 25, at Galeria Carlos Paredes, Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores, in Lisbon, Portugal.

The PEN Clube Português Awards initiative is supported by the Portuguese Directorate-General for Books, Archives and Libraries (DGLAB).

Portugal has been a member of PEN International since 1979. PEN, the largest and oldest organisation of writers worldwide, was founded in 1921, its name an acronym for ‘Poets, Essayists and Novelists’ (later broadened to ‘Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists’).

The original PEN was founded in London in 1921 by the English novelist John Galsworthy, and has since grown to include writers worldwide.

International PEN promotes international intellectual exchanges and goodwill among writers. It promotes freedom of expression for all writers regardless of their nationality, race, or religion, or of the political system under which they live. PEN is especially active in defending and supporting writers who are being harassed, persecuted or oppressed by their government. The organisation also bestows literary awards, sponsors translations of works written in obscure or neglected languages, holds conferences on current politico-literary topics, and publishes pamphlets and newsletters. To become a member of PEN an author must usually have published at least two books, one of which shows considerable literary distinction.

PEN is headquartered in London, with more than 80 branches in about 60 countries worldwide.

Source: RTP