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National Prize for Culture and Arts in Angola 2019
José Eduardo Agualusa // We are happy to share with you that José Eduardo Agualusa is the winner of the National Prize for Culture and Arts in Angola 2019 in the area of literature. The jury underlined his contribution "to the emergence of the emancipated reader" [...]
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City of Badajoz Award 2019
Jorge Carrión // Jorge Carrión has won the City of Badajoz Award in the category journalism, endowed with 6.000 Euros. Among over one hundred works submitted, the jury chose his chronicle "Sanmao en Canarias" about the long stay of the famous Chinese writer in Spain. > [...]
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In Memoriam: Jan Jacobs Mulder
Jan Jacobs Mulder * 16 June 1940 - † 13 September 2019 Jan Jacobs Mulder passed away in Haarlem on 13th of September 2019. Born in 1940, he spent his childhood years in a Japanese internment camp and combined his work in the visual arts with his writing. His historical [...]
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Selected for Prix Médicis étranger 2019
Lidia Jorge // Estuary by Lidia Jorge has been selected with 12 other novels for the Prix Médicis étranger 2019. > www.publico.pt
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Bellas Artes Prize for the Best Translation
Gonçalo M. Tavares // After A Girl is Lost in Her Century Looking for Her Father by Gonçalo M. Tavares has already been finalist of the prizes Oceanos (Brazil) and Jean-Monnet (France) and winner of the Tabula Rasa (Portugal) and now the Bellas Artes Prize for [...]
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In Memoriam: Agustina Bessa-Luís
Agustina Bessa-Luís * 5 October 1922 - † 3 June 2019 Agustina Bessa-Luís passed away in Porto on 3rd of June 2019. Born in 1922 in the North of Portugal, Bessa-Luís is considered one of the most important writers of contemporary Portuguese literature. She has novels, stories, plays, and essays [...]
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Mexican Academy of Language
Rogelio Guedea // We're proud to inform that Rogelio Guedea has been admitted to the Mexican Academy of Language, the Mexican equivalent of the Royal Spanish Academy.
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Best Translation Award Japan
José Luís Peixoto // The novel "Galveias" by José Luís Peixoto has won the The Best Translation Award in Japan. > besttranslationaward.com/
