Yesterday, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature to 53-year-old author Han Kang, the first South Korean woman to receive this prestigious award. The academy justified its choice, saying that she deserved the prize for "her intense poetic prose that confronts trauma and exposes the fragility of...
Mozambican writer Paulina Chiziane was recently honored by "Forbes Africa Lusophone" magazine. The tribute comes as a result of her crucial role in the battle for African women's rights, according to "Notícias". By winning the publication's Leadership and Social Responsibility Award, Paulina Chiziane became the second Mozambican woman to be honored by "Forbes" after social activist Graça Machel. Quoted...
The Camões Prize, the most valuable award in the Portuguese language, will be presented today to writer Paulina Chiziane in Lisbon, Portugal. Chiziane won the prize unanimously by the jury in 2021, and will receive the honor from the hands of the Prime Minister of Portugal, António Costa, at the Coach Museum in that European country. The prize was also awarded to...
The writer Paulina Chiziane considers that one of the biggest challenges of the country is to use the knowledge to recover important achievements such as freedom, dignity and humanity that in her opinion are being lost. The most cherished of Mozambican authors received yesterday at the Pedagogical University of Maputo an honorary doctorate in artistic studies,...
"The Place of Women in Literature" is the title of a lecture to be given this afternoon by writer Paulina Chiziane, during the opening ceremony of the second edition of the Beira Book Fair, organized by the Kulemba association and that runs until Saturday. The event of this year proposes to reflect about the relation between...
"La comparsa" (the companion) is the title of the most recent work by the Mozambican writer Amilca Ismael. It is the fourth work, recently released in Italy, where the writer lives since 1986. According to the writer, the novel has as inspiration what certain women feel in their relationships, "when their husbands are distant...