17 June 2004
Luanda — The Sonangol Literature Prize, which until the 2003 edition used to distinguish unpublished works of Angolan, Cape-Verdean and Sao-Tomese writers, will start as from this year to award also Mozambican and East Timor writers, with the intention of turning it into one of the biggest Prizes of the Portuguese speakers literature.
This information was revealed today, in Luanda, by the secretary-general of the Angolan Writers Union (UEA), Adriano Botelho de Vasconcelos, institution in charge of the management of this competition.
Other innovations of the competition are the price of the Award that goes from USD 25,000 to 50,000 and its periodicity that will occur from three to three years and not twice a year, as it used to happen until now.
With this extension, the countries of the Portuguese Speaking Community which do not participate in the competition are Brazil and Portugal.
The Award is sponsored by Angola's oil firm (Sonangol) and it has already awarded writers from Cape-Verde, Carlos Araujo, Amilcar Lima and Vera Duarte.
Writer Carlos Araujo shared the 1999 Award, with Angolan writer Jacques Arlindo, whereas Amilcar Lima won the 2001 edition and Vera Duarte shared the 2003 edition with Angolan Adriano Botelho de Vasconcelos.
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