Angolan poet and historian Ana Paula Tavares is the winner of the 37th edition of the Camões Prize, the Directorate-General for Books, Archives and Libraries (DGLAB) in Portugal announced on Wednesday (08)..

Tavares thus becomes the first Angolan to win the biggest literary prize in the Portuguese language, which has already been won by Mozambicans José Craveirinha (1991), Mia Couto (2013) and Paulina Chiziane (2021).

By awarding the Camões 2025 Prize to Ana Paula Tavares, "her fruitful and coherent trajectory of aesthetic creation and, in particular, her rescue of the dignity of Poetry," the jury said in a statement released by DGLAB.

"The Jury emphasized that, with the diction of her lyricism without evasive concessions and with the free commitments of production in chronicle and narrative fiction, the work of Ana Paula Tavares also gains a relevant anthropological dimension in historical perspective," reads the statement.

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