Category: Brazil
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Brazilian International Colloquium on Negritude and Literature starts November 5
Colóquio Internacional Negritude e Literatura, celebrating Afro-Brazilian portal Literafro will be hosted in Minas Gerais, Brazil from November 5 – 7, 2024. Literafro, founded by Eduardo de Assis Duarte, is a portal of Afro-Brazilian literature active online since December 13, 2004. Its founders and current managers are professors and researchers from the Federal University of…
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Premio Oceanos 2024 finalists announced
The finalists of Premio Oceanos 2024 were announced in Sao Paulo, Brazil on Tuesday, October 29, 2024. Oceanos-Prêmio de Literatura em Língua Portuguesa (English: Oceanos-Prize for Literature in the Portuguese Language) is a Brazilian literary award for poetry and prose founded in 2003. In the first years, only work by Brazilian writers was eligible for…
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Festa Literária Internacional de Paraty 2024 kicks off October 9
Festa Literária Internacional de Paraty 2024 runs in Paraty, Brazil from October 9 – 13, 2024. The Festa Literária Internacional de Paraty (International Literary Festival of Paraty – FLIP) is a literary festival held annually in Paraty, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil since 2003. It was founded by Bloomsbury Publishing co-founder Liz Calder, who lived in…
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Premio Oceanos 2024 longlist announced
Angolan, Brazilian, Mozambican, and Cape Verdean writers feature on the longlists for Premio Oceanos 2024 announced on Friday, August 23, 2024. Oceanos-Prêmio de Literatura em Língua Portuguesa (English: Oceanos-Prize for Literature in the Portuguese Language) is a Brazilian literary award for poetry and prose founded in 2003. In the first years, only work by Brazilian…
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Book Digest: Biyi Bandele, Shirlene Obuobi, Ana Paula Maia, Munira Hussein
We wrap up book news for our readers in our regular Book Digest segment with books from Biyi Bandele, Shirlene Obuobi, Ana Paula Maia, and an anthology from Nairobi. Seeing Our Sisters: Anthology by Munira Hussein, Resh (Rehema Zuberi), Joanna Cockerline, Ellah Hallets, Hellen Mwololo and Jacque Nzioka (TJ) Publisher: IndependentDate: July 20, 2024Genre: Fiction,…
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Conceição Evaristo to open Brazil’s Festival da Palavra de Curitiba 2024
Conceição Evaristo is the opening act at Festival da Palavra de Curitiba 2024 which runs in Curitiba, Brazil from June 16 – 22, 2024. The festival theme is “Resistance.” Festival da Palavra de Curitiba (English: Curitiba Word Festival) was first hosted in the Brazilian city of Curitiba in 2023. That edition ran from September 27…
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Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize 2024 shortlist announced
The shortlist for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize 2024 was announced on Thursday, May 23, 2024. The Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize is for book-length literary translations into English from any living European language. It aims to honour the translation craft and recognise its cultural importance. It was founded by Lord Weidenfeld and is supported by New College, The…
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Ana Paula Maia wins Republic of Consciousness Prize 2024
Ana Paula Maia’s novel Of Cattle and Men was declared the winner of the Republic of Consciousness Prize 2024 in London, UK on Wednesday, April 17, 2024. The Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses is an annual British literary prize founded by the author Neil Griffiths. It rewards fiction published by UK and…
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Itamar Vieira Junior on International Booker Prize 2024 shortlist.
Itamar Vieira Junior’s novel Crooked Plow is on the shortlist for the International Booker Prize 2024 announced on Tuesday, April 9, 2024. The International Booker Prize is awarded annually for the finest single work of fiction from around the world translated into English and published in the UK and Ireland. David Diop won the award…
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Itamar Vieira Junior wins Prix Montluc Resistance et Liberté 2024
Itamar Vieira Junior’s novel Charrue Tordue won the Prix Montluc Resistance et Liberté 2024 in Lyon, France on Wednesday, April 3, 2024. Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse was given a special mention. Prix Montluc Resistance et Liberté (English: Montluc Resistance and Freedom Prize) is awarded to an author, whether French or foreign, whose work questions current methods…
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Itamar Vieira Junior on International Booker Prize 2024 longlist.
Itamar Vieira Junior’s novel Crooked Plow is on the longlist for the International Booker Prize 2024 announced on Monday, March 11, 2024. The International Booker Prize is awarded annually for the finest single work of fiction from around the world which has been translated into English and published in the UK and Ireland. David Diop…
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Farai Mudzingwa, Ana Paula Maia on Republic of Consciousness Prize 2024 shortlist.
Farai Mudzingwa and Ana Paula Maia are on the shortlist of the Republic of Consciousness Prize 2024 announced on Monday, March 4, 2024. The Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses is an annual British literary prize founded by the author Neil Griffiths. It rewards fiction published by UK and Irish small presses, defined as…
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Conceição Evaristo joins Brazil’s Academia Mineira de Letras
Conceição Evaristo is the newest member of Brazil’s Academia Mineira de Letras on Thursday, February 15, 2024. Academia Mineira de Letras, founded by twelve intellectuals led by Machado Sobrinho in 1909, is the highest literary entity in Minas Gerais State, Brazil. Another eighteen intellectuals from across the state were then elected to join the academy…
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Farai Mudzingwa, Ana Paula Maia on Republic of Consciousness Prize 2024 longlist.
Farai Mudzingwa and Ana Paula Maia are on the longlist for the Republic of Consciousness Prize 2024 announced in Ireland on Monday, February 5, 2024. The Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses is an annual British literary prize founded by the author Neil Griffiths. It rewards fiction published by UK and Irish small presses,…
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LOATAD Black Atlantic Residency 2024 fellows announced
The fellows of the LOATAD Black Atlantic Residency 2024 were announced in Accra, Ghana on Monday, January 29, 2024. The Library of Africa and the African Diaspora (LOATAD) is a private library, archive, writing residency, and museum dedicated to the work of African and Diaspora writers from the late 19th century to the present day.…