21st Jun  > 5.30pm  >  Casa da Cultura de Loulé

Conference about the Cape Verdean Literature

with José Luiz Tavares and Dina Salústio

José Luiz Tavares was born on 10th June, 1967, in Tarrafal, Santiago Island. He studied literature and philosophy, and has collaborated with newspapers and magazines in Cape Verde, Portugal and Brazil.

Among the various awards he has received, the most notable is the Mário António Poetry Prize 2004, awarded by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation to the best work by an African author in Portuguese and from East Timor published in the three-year period 2001-2003, for his first published book, ‘Paraíso Apagado por um Trovão’.

The poet and writer Dina Salústio was born on the island of Santo Antão (1941). Founding partner of the Association of Cape Verdean Writers, of the Cape Verdean Society of Authors, founding member of the Cape Verdean Academy of Letters and of the PEN Club of Cape Verde, she is also a member of the Sergipana Academy of Letters (Brazil) and Vice-President of the Brazilian Society of Latin Culture for Cape Verde.

She was awarded, among others, with the 1st Prize for Children's and Youth Literature in Cape Verde (1994), the Prize for Children's and Youth Literature from Portuguese-Speaking African Countries (2000), the Rosalia de Castro Prize for Literature in Portuguese – PEN Galicia, Spain (2016), and the RDP Africa Literature Prize for Lusophony (2021). The translation project of his novel ‘A Louca de Serrano’ was awarded the PEN Award England (2018).

Falas Afrikanas

With Raja Litwinoff

Editorial project of African works and authors, a catalogue on the country's literary production will be presented.