Alex Alexandre Gujamo was declared the Prêmio Literário Carlos Morgado 2025 winner in a ceremony in Maputo, Mozambique, on Wednesday, July 29, 2025.
The Carlos Morgado Foundation implements initiatives in health, education, sports, and other areas of sustainable development in honour of late Mozambican freedom fighter, entrepreneur, and politician Carlos Morgado. The latest of these is Prémio Literário Carlos Morgado (English: Carlos Morgado Literary Prize) in conjunction with Catalogus, a platform for Mozambican authors. It was created to discover and project new voices from Mozambican literature in the short story genre. It is aimed at Mozambican citizens aged 35 years or younger who have not had any work published in newspapers, magazines, websites, blogs, or digital or printed anthologies. Previous winners have been Francisco Panguana Júnior and Alfoi Renato Bernardo Firme.
For 2025, the jury of Marina Morgado (president), Maria da Conceição Siueia, and Mauro Brito selected the semifinalists on Tuesday, July 22, before the finalists and winner were revealed on July 29. The finalists made public on Wednesday were Omar Mahando Antonio, Arquilito Mauricio Andre Silambo, Solange da Graca Inacio Guambe, Zaida Francisco Luis Abacar, Daniel dos Santos Lourenço, Atumane Momade Juma Taibo, Argentina Fernando Guirrugo, Pedro Bele Mucheu, Alex Alexandre Gujamo, and Delton Vasco Lisboa. Their entries will be included in the upcoming collection “Novas Vozes, Novas Estórias 2025” (English: New Voices, New Stories 2025), which promises to highlight the creativity and diversity of contemporary Mozambican literature. They will also receive books by Mozambican authors.
The grand winner, Alex Alexandre Gujamo, a young writer from Inhambane province, Southern Mozambique, took home a certificate of participation and a cash prize of 50,000 meticais.
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