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 Brazilian writer, singer and composer Chico Buarque on April 24 this year. Buarque won the Prize in 2019.

When Paulina Chiziane won the prize, the jury said that the wide critical reception of her work, as well as the academic and institutional recognition of her writings, had contributed to her choice.

The jury also highlighted the approaches to Mozambican and African women.

Paulina Chiziane was born in Mandlakazi, in the province of Gaza. In 1990 she was the first Mozambican woman to publish a novel, "Baladas de Amor ao Vento".