Mia Couto wins the 2021 edition of the Manuel de Boaventura Literary Prize
The Braga district council justifies the choice, taken by a majority of the jury, as it is a highly literary maturity narrative that, with particular sensitivity, manages to cross different times of the Mozambican reality, offering the reader an expressive representation of the country in the period colonial and post-colonial.
Since the award was not unanimously awarded, the jury decided to reveal the position of professor Pedro Eiras, who voted for the work “As Telefones”, by Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida, for the creative exploration of the sensitivity of two women, mother, and daughter, who were distanced by distance. and united by the densest intimacy.
In this edition, 104 works from several Portuguese-speaking countries were presented to the competition.
The jury, made up of professors Sérgio Guimarães de Sousa, from the University of Minho, as president, and Pedro Eiras, from the University of Porto, and the librarian Maria Luísa Leite da Silva, from the Esposende City Council, expressed satisfaction at such a high-level number of works in competition.
The Manuel de Boaventura Literary Prize was created by the Municipality of Esposende, in order to honor and publicize this writer and man of culture, born in Vila Chã, Esposende.
With a biennial periodicity and with a monetary value of 7,500 euros, it contemplates the modality of narrative creation of novels or short stories by Portuguese-speaking writers.
