2018-08-22 14:45:43
The winner will be announced on October 12. There will be a formal ceremony for the delivery of the prize to the 09 of December, and subsequently the New Academy will be dissolved.
Writers Haruki Murakami, Kim Thúy, Maryse Condé, and Neil Gaiman are the four finalists for the alternative prize to the Nobel Literature prize, announced this Wednesday the New Academy, responsible for the initiative.
The four writers who are now in the final race to the Prize of Literature of the New Academy, created as a protest against the cancellation of the Nobel Prize, were voted on by the public, from a list of 47 authors from around the world, nominated by librarians and swedes.
Voting opened to the public, on the site of the New Academy, in July and ended on the 14th of August, having been set from the beginning that two of the finalists were women and the other two were men.
The English writer Neil Gaiman, resident in the United States, started his career as a journalist, but would eventually leave the profession, after knowing the success as an author of graphic novels, as is the case of "The Sandman", a series published by the Vertigo that turned him into a author of worship.
Neil Gaiman has received several international awards and is the author of works such as "Coraline", "The Graveyard Book" ("The Strange Life of Nobody Owens") and "The Ocean at the End of the Lane" ("The ocean at the end of the path").
The japanese Haruki Murakami, also a finalist, is known literarily by melding pop culture with a strong magic realism, being an author multipremiado and that has already been repeatedly pointed out as a candidate for the Nobel Prize.
Among his works are books such as "Norwegian Wood," "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" ("a Chronicle of Bird Rope"), "Kafka on the Shore" ("Kafka on the seashore") and "IQ84".
As for the finalists, the vietnamese Kim Thúy -- who grew up in Canada, after having abandoned his country as a refugee for 10 years -- is known for "short stories and elegant" about the condition of the refugee and immigrant, as well as by the colors, scents and flavors emanating from their stories about the Vietnam, without hiding the dangers of exile and the search for identity.
"Ru" (published in Portugal by Alfaguara), "Man", "Vi" are among the works selected for the New Academy.
The fourth finalist is the writer of the French Maryse Condé, feminist and activist, lives in the United States and is considered one of the authors most prominent in the Caribbean, having written around 20 novels and received several prestigious awards.
Known as one of the most important diffusive of african culture in the Caribbean, Maryse Condé has described how colonialism changed the world and how those that are affected to resume their inheritance.
"Desirada", "Safety", "Crossing the Mangrove" and "Who Slashed Celanire's Throat?" are some of the works that he wrote without any editing in Portugal.
The New Academy was founded this year by several figures in the cultural Swedish, among which journalists and authors, as a form of protest to the cancellation of the Nobel Prize by the Swedish Academy.
The winner will be announced on October 12th and there will be a formal ceremony for delivery of the prize on the day 09 of December.
The New Academy will be dissolved after the formal ceremony in December.
Source: DN
2018-06-18 10:36:02
Read the work of José Saramago by Joana Manuel
The auditorium of the FJS
18 June, 18: 30
The month of June 2010 brought us an irreparable loss with the death of José Saramago. Eight years later, we still live José Saramago with his words, his ideas, his ethics of responsibility. The day 18 June is not, therefore, a day of celebration, but a day of remembrance. Indicating the date, we receive two readings of his work.
And as a space that we are open to the world, we received a further discussion of the Access to Culture and the presentation of a book that reflects on migratory processes and artistic practices in a time of war.