Mozambican writer Paulina Chiziane has been in Warsaw, Poland, since yesterday for the inauguration ceremony of a chair established in her honor for her contribution to Mozambican literature and the Portuguese language. Called the "Chair of Paulina Chiziane Studies", it is being developed by the Faculty of Modern Languages at the University of Warsaw and aims to develop studies...
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...
Nineteen female authors will take part in the writing workshop "A Vez das Mulheres", promoted by the Mozambican authors' platform Catalogus, in partnership with the Spanish Embassy in Mozambique and with the support of the Guimarães Rosa Institute, on September 23, 24, 26 and 27, from 4pm to 6pm. "Women's turn" has...
Jazz, Pop & Rock is the musical proposal for the second edition of the Maputo Global Concert, which will take place on Tuesday, September 24 at the Maputo Port Gallery, promising a vibrant evening of global music. The event will feature the special participation of American saxophonist Paul Nicholas Roth, a professor at the University of...
The funeral ceremonies for Mozambican musician Dilon Ndjindji will be held on Saturday in the town of Marracuene, his hometown, according to a family source. Ndjindji lost his life at the age of 97 to illness at dawn yesterday, Wednesday (18), in Maputo, the victim of a lung infection. The musician leaves behind an important musical legacy that...
Mozambican writer, Adelino Albano Luís, was awarded last Thursday (12), as the big winner of the 2nd edition of the Mia Couto Literary Prize, in the prose category. For the prize he received a check for 400,000 meticais from Mia Couto and the Managing Director of Cornelder Mozambique, Jan de Vries, at a ceremony held...
On September 12, at 5:30 p.m., the Camões - Portuguese Cultural Center in Maputo will host the launch of the book Teatro de Marionetes (ou Ensaio sobre a Mecânica Descritiva da Desertificação dos Homens), by Jofredino Faife, published by Imprensa Nacional (Portugal), as a result of his distinction in the 6th edition of the IN/Eugénio Lisboa...
Mozambican writer Mia Couto unanimously won the FIL (Guadalajara International Book Fair) Prize for Literature in Romance Languages 2024 yesterday, the jury announced at a press conference in Mexico. Mia Couto was chosen from 49 authors from 20 countries who write in six languages: Catalan, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese and Romanian....
The book "Crónicas Eleitorais e Direitos Humanos em Moçambique" (Electoral Chronicles and Human Rights in Mozambique) is a collection of ten texts that deal with the electoral scenario in the country, highlighting the human rights violations carried out, for the most part, by the police during the polls. The digital book, to be launched next Wednesday (04) in Maputo by the Bloco 4 Foundation, is...
Mozambican musician DeHermes won two music awards last week at the Shinning Star Africa Awards gala, which took place in Sandton, South Africa. The rising youngster's triumph on the Mozambican music scene was for his song "Aritimoh", in the categories of Breakthrough Artist of the...