Fernanda Ribeiro wins UCCLA-CMLisboa Literary Revelation Award
The winning work of the 9th edition of the UCCLA-CMLisboa Literary Revelation Award – New Talents, New Works in Portuguese Language was attributed to the novel “Cantagalo” written by Fernanda Teixeira Ribeiro, 40 years old, Brazilian nationality and resident in São Paulo , Brazil.
The jury also decided to award two honorable mentions:
- Poetry “Chão de Saibro” by Frederico da Cruz Vieira de Sousa, Brazilian, 42 years old, resident of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil;
- The novel “The Syntax of War” by Joaquim Njungo Jeremias, Angolan, aged 29, was born in Luena, province of Moxico, Angola.
According to the jury, “Cantagalo” is “a family romance, with Praxedes, an obtuse name, at the centre of the fiction. A story of quick adventures, and lively dialogues, what runs through this book like an underground river is not only the female condition and the issue of writing, but the condition of the Book itself as a possibility of escaping an empty, concrete life, made up of meaningless scenes in this place – Cantagalo – which is an allegory of all of Brazil. Everything in authentic diction, a way of making the characters speak that is, in fact, reminiscent of another world.”
Regarding honourable mentions, the jury states that “Chão de Saibro” “takes us back to the graphic experiences of visual poetry, the iconic experimentation of text, transforming it into a true text-plot-tissue of words. It is a book made up of poems where sound and its games override meaning.”
In the novel “The Syntax of War” “Africa sings its pain”, where the protagonists “are allegories of all those who faced the colonial war. It is about discovering in this book of descriptive prose, intense dialogues, photographs of the interiors of various hells…, a way of narrating that articulates the performative… with the social novel where the anti-war message is only the most obvious level of this committed voice.”
9th edition of the award:
This edition was launched on May 7, 2023 and closed on December 3, 2023.
We received 168 applications in this edition from 15 countries: Asia (Timor-Leste), Africa (Portuguese-speaking countries and Senegal), America (Brazil), Europe (Germany, Poland, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Switzerland), and the Middle East ( Israel). It should be noted that Brazil has been the country with the highest number of applications.
The jury for this edition: Domício Proença, Brazil; Germano Almeida, Cape Verde; Hélder Sinbad, Angola; Innocência Mata, São Tomé and Príncipe; Pires Laranjeira, Portugal; Luís Carlos Patraquim, Mozambique; Luís Costa, Timor-Leste; Tony Tcheka, Guinea-Bissau; Yao Jing Ming, Macau; for the Movement 800 years of the Portuguese Language – João Pinto Sousa; from UCCLA – Rui Lourido.
Winners of previous editions:
2023:
First prize ex aequo:
- “Breviário de Medo e Malícia” by Leonel Araújo Barbosa, 38 years old, Portuguese nationality, resident in Lisbon;
- “Sentido Litoral” by André Bazzoni Bueno, 44 years old, Brazilian nationality, resident in Santa Cruz Cabrália, Bhaia;
Honorable mentions in ex aequo:
- “Os Poemas Figurativos” by Paulo Jorge Monteiro Marques, 52 years old, Portuguese nationality, resident in Lisbon;
- “Sete Contos Insensatos” by Emanuel Vasconcelos Barbosa, 56 years old, with dual nationality Portugal/Cape Verde, residing in Estoril, Portugal.
2022:
- 1st Prize – “Caligraphy” by Alexandre Siloto Sign, Brazilian;
- Honourable Mention – “Three Days in February” by Ricardo Ferreira de Almeida, Portuguese;
2021:
- “Amadeu’s Dream” by Leonardo Costa Oliveira, Brazilian;
2020:
- “O Heterónimo de Pedra” by Henrique Reinaldo Castanheira, Portuguese;
2019:
- “Praças” by António Pedro Serrano de Sousa Correia, Portuguese, born in Angola;
2018:
- “Equilíbrio Distante” by Óscar Maldonado, Paraguayan nationality, residing in São Paulo, Brazil;
2017:
- “Dog Diary” by Thiago Rodrigues Braga, Brazilian national, born in Corumbá, Goiás, Brazil;
2016:
- “Once upon a time there was a man” by João Nuno Azambuja, Portuguese nationality.
More information about previous editions
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