Rui Miguel Tovar wins the Maria Ondina Braga Literature Grand Prize
To this 4th edition of the Maria Ondina Braga Travel Literature Grand Prix, instituted by APE, with the sponsorship of the Braga City Council, works published in 2020 competed.
The jury, made up of Guilherme d’Oliveira Martins, Luísa Mellid-Franco and Paulo Moura, awarded the prize to “Viagens Sem Bola”, edited by Quetzal, by majority vote.
The monetary value of this prize for the distinguished author is 12,500 euros.
In “Viagens sem Bola”, journalist Rui Miguel Tovar talks about games in Qatar, Argentina, Paraguay, Italy, Spain, China, Thailand, Maldives, Vietnam, Chile, among others.
The particularity of these trips is that the author does not write specifically about football, but about everything else around the games, such as cities, food, people, the history of a region, how to reach a certain Chinese village or to a beach soccer match in Thailand, how the fans of an Argentine club behave, the Hollywood actor who is a fan of San Lorenzo (the Pope’s club), or the women who watch, in secret, a game in the Qatar.
Rui Miguel Tovar was born on February 16, 1977 and became a journalist in 1995. He first entered the Record and in January 2009 moved to I newspaper, where he stayed until December 2015, when he decided to pursue a career as a ‘freelancer’ .
