Suleiman Cassamo wins BCI Literature Award

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Suleiman Cassamo wins BCI Literature Award

8:23 CAT | 09 Feb 2017

RM / Suleiman Cassamo

The writer Suleiman Cassamo’s book “A Carta da Mbona” has won the seventh edition of the BCI Prize for Literature, created to promote and disseminate national literature and recognize the best books published by Mozambican authors.

The winner of the prize, worth 200,000 meticais, was announced in Maputo at the headquarters of Banco Comercial e de Investimentos (BCI), which created the initiative in partnership with the Association of Mozambican Writers (AEMO) in 2010.

The jury chose “Carta a Mbona” ( Letter to Mbona”) because it is a work of literary fiction that marries a constellation of technical-linguistic resources giving the book an excellent literary quality. The work refers us to humanism, rescues pieces from the history of Mozambique and values nature.

In all, according to jury president Jorge de Oliveira, just over 30 works published in 2016 were evaluated, some of them edited, published or printed in Brazil and Portugal.

This is the second substantial prize that Suleiman Cassamo has won for “A Carta da Mbona”, having received the Sonangol Literature Prize in Luanda last year.

A mechanical engineer and university professor, Suleiman Cassamo is one of the authors whose books indelibly affected a generation of writers and readers in the country. A product of Mozambique’s ‘Charrua’ literary generation, Cassano, 54 years of age, also wrote “o Regresso do Morto” (The Return of the Dead Man), “Amor de Baobá” (Baobab Love) and “Palestra para um Morto” (Lecture for a Dead Man) among other works.

In 1994, he won Radio France International’s Guimarães Rosa prize.

Source: Rádio Moçambique