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Ondjaki
Ndalu de Almeida (born July 5,1977) is a writer born in Angola who uses the pen name Ondjaki. He has written poetry, children's books, short stories, novels, drama and film scripts. Career Ondjaki studied sociology at the University of Lisbon, and wrote his thesis on Angolan writer Luandino Vieira. In 2010, he received his Doctorate in African Studies in Italy. Ondjaki's literary debut came in 2000 with the poetry book ''Actu Sanguíneu'', which was followed up with the childhood memoir ''Bom dia camaradas'' ("Good Morning, Comrades") in 2001. To date (2018) his body of work includes five novels, four collections of short stories, six collections of poetry and six children's books. He has also made a documentary film, ''May Cherries Grow'', about his native city. His books have been translated to French, Spanish, Italian, German, Serbian, English, Polish and Swedish. ''Granma Nineteen and the Soviet's Secrets'' is his most recent book in English (Spring 2014, from Biblioasis). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transparent City
''Transparent City'' ( pt, Os Transparentes) is a romance novel by Angolan writer Ondjaki published in 2012 by Caminho. It won the José Saramago Literary Prize in 2013. The book was translated into English in 2018 by Stephen Henighan under Biblioasis Publishing. It is written as a series of vignettes into the life of the many people who inhabit the Maianga building (a residential building in the Maiainga district of Luanda) in which the protagonist lives, providing perspectives from across age and experience as to the current state of a degraded and modern Luanda. A common thread tying many of these stories together is that the characters are doing what they can to survive in a broken city. This is shown throughout novel but specifically in this moment:Luanda was boiling with people who sold, who bought to sell, who sold themselves to later go out and buy, and people who sold themselves without being able to buy anything.The aftermath of the Angolan Civil War is present throu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Os Transparentes
''Transparent City'' ( pt, Os Transparentes) is a romance novel by Angolan writer Ondjaki published in 2012 by Caminho. It won the José Saramago Literary Prize in 2013. The book was translated into English in 2018 by Stephen Henighan under Biblioasis Publishing. It is written as a series of vignettes into the life of the many people who inhabit the Maianga building (a residential building in the Maiainga district of Luanda) in which the protagonist lives, providing perspectives from across age and experience as to the current state of a degraded and modern Luanda. A common thread tying many of these stories together is that the characters are doing what they can to survive in a broken city. This is shown throughout novel but specifically in this moment:Luanda was boiling with people who sold, who bought to sell, who sold themselves to later go out and buy, and people who sold themselves without being able to buy anything.The aftermath of the Angolan Civil War is present throu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angolan Writers
This is a list of Angolan writers, ordered alphabetically by surname. * Henrique Abranches (1932–2004), poet * Antero Abreu (1927–2017), poet * José Eduardo Agualusa (born 1960), Portuguese journalist and fiction writer * Fernando Costa Andrade (1936–2009), poet * Mário Pinto de Andrade (1928–1990), poet and politician * Mario António (1934–1989), poet * Gabriela Antunes (1937–2004), folklore * Arlindo Barbeitos (born 1940), poet * Geraldo Bessa Victor (1917–1985), poet * Dulce Braga (born 1958), autobiographer * António Cardoso (1933–2006), short story writer * Mendes de Carvalho, writing as ''Uanhenga Xitu'', politician and Africanist writer in Portuguese and Kimbundu * Lisa Castel (born 1955), writer and journalist * Alberto Graves Chakussanga (1978–2010), murdered Angolan radio journalist * Maria João Chipalavela * Tomaz Vieira da Cruz (1900–1960), poet * Viriato da Cruz (1928–1973), poet * Alexandre Dáskalos (born 1924), poet * Maria A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Léonora Miano
Léonora Miano (born 1973, in Douala) is a Cameroonian author. Biography Léonora Miano was born in Douala in Cameroon. She moved to France in 1991, where she first settled in Valenciennes and then in Nanterre to study American Literature. She published her first novel, ''Dark Heart of the Night'', which was well received by French critics, receiving six prizes: Les Lauriers Verts de la Forêt des Livres, Révélation (2005), the Louis Guilloux prize (2006), the Prix du Premier Roman de Femme (2006), the René-Fallet prize (2006), the Bernard-Palissy prize (2006),and the Cameroonian Excellence prize (2007). The ''Lire'' magazine awarded it with the title of the best first French novel in 2005. Her second novel, '' Contours du jour qui vient,'' received the Goncourt des lycéens prize, which was discerned by a jury of young high schoolers between the ages of 15 and 18. In the spring of 2008, Léonora Miano published five novels in the « Étonnants classiques » collection o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
São Paulo Prize For Literature
The São Paulo Prize for Literature ( pt, Prêmio São Paulo de Literatura) is a Brazilian literary prize for novels written in the Portuguese language and published in Brazil. It was established in 2008 by the Secretary of Culture for the State of São Paulo. Though not as old as other literary prizes in Brazil, such as the Machado de Assis Prize, the São Paulo Prize has quickly risen in prestige. For example, in 2011, there were 221 submissions for the prize. This rapid rise in popularity is partly because of the large cash prize. Every year two prizes of R$200,000 each are awarded—one for the best novel of the year by an established author, and the other for the best novel of the year by a debut author—making the São Paulo Prize the largest prize for a published work in Brazil, and one of the largest literary prizes in the world. Ten finalists are listed for each award, during the Festival da Mantiqueira, and the winners are announced on the first Monday of August in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Saramago Prize
The José Saramago Literary Prize has been awarded since 1999 by the Círculo de Leitores Foundation to a literary work written in Portuguese by a young author in which the first edition was published in a Lusophone country. It celebrates the attribution of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998 to the Portuguese writer José Saramago José de Sousa Saramago, GColSE ComSE GColCa (; 16 November 1922 – 18 June 2010), was a Portuguese writer and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony ith which hec .... The prize has a biannual periodicity, and a monetary value of . The jury is composed of between five and ten members holding distinguished cultural roles. Laureates References External linksRegulamento {{DEFAULTSORT:Jose Saramago Prize Portuguese-language literary awards Portuguese literary awards Awards established in 1998 Biennial events José Saramago ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Africa39
Africa39 was a collaborative project initiated by the Hay Festival in partnership with Rainbow Book Club, celebrating Port Harcourt: UNESCO World Book Capital 2014 by identifying 39 of the most promising writers under the age of 40 with the potential and talent to define trends in the development of literature from Africa and the African diaspora."Imagine the World" Africa39, Hay Festival. Launched in 2014, Africa39 followed the success of two previous Hay Festival initiatives linked to World Book Capital cities, Bogotá39 (2007) and Beirut39 (2009). The judges for Africa39 were |
Living People
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1977 Births
Events January * January 8 – Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group. * January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). * January 17 ** 49 marines from the and are killed as a result of a collision in Barcelona harbour, Spain. * January 18 ** Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease. ** Australia's worst railway disaster at Granville, a suburb of Sydney, leaves 83 people dead. ** SFR Yugoslavia Prime minister Džemal Bijedić, his wife and 6 others are killed in a plane crash in Bosnia and Herzegovina. * January 19 – An Ejército del Aire CASA C-207C Azor (registration T.7-15) plane crashes into the side of a mountain near Chiva, on approach to Valencia Airport in Spain, killing all 11 people on board. * January 20 – Jimmy Carter is sworn in as the 39th Pres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
Nordic Africa Institute ( sv, Nordiska Afrikainstitutet) serves as a research, documentation and information centre on modern Africa for the Nordic countries. The Institute also encourages research and studies on Africa. The institute was founded in 1962. The institute is financed jointly by the Nordic countries. Administratively, it functions as a Swedish government agency that answers to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. It is located in Uppsala. The Nordic Africa Institute is part of AEGIS, a network of African Studies Centres in Europe, and organized its 4th international conference (ECAS) in 2011. The institute is headed by a Director, and a Programme and Research Council has the task of monitoring and advising the Director. On 18 July 2019, the Swedish government appointed Therése Sjömander Magnusson as new Director of NAI, a position which she took up on 1 October 2019. Previous Directors of NAI The list is partly based on a report to the Nordic Africa Institute's 50 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jabuti Prize
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Folha De S
''Folha de S.Paulo'' (sometimes spelled ''Folha de São Paulo''), also known as simply ''Folha'' (, ''Sheet''), is a Brazilian daily newspaper founded in 1921 under the name ''Folha da Noite'' and published in São Paulo by the Folha da Manhã company. The newspaper is the centerpiece for Grupo Folha, a conglomerate that also controls UOL (Universo Online), the leading Internet portal in Brazil; polling institute Datafolha; publishing house Publifolha; book imprint Três Estrelas; printing company Plural; and, in a joint-venture with the Globo group, the business daily ''Valor'', among other enterprises. It has gone through several phases and has targeted different audiences, such as urban middle classes, rural landowners, and the civil society, but political independence has always been one of its editorial cornerstones. Ever since 1986, ''Folha'' has had the biggest circulation among the largest Brazilian newspapers – according to data by IVC (Instituto Verificador de Circ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
