Fourteen Portuguese semi-finalist authors of literary award Oceans

ANDm communiqué, the organization of the award states that there are 26 semifinalists in prose and 28 in poetry, with authors from Angola, Brazil, Mozambique and Portugal.

From Portugal, in the prose, there are “The Rain That Launches the Sand of the Sahara”, by Ana Margarida de Carvalho, “Have Ya Got Any Castles, Baby”, by Ana Teresa Pereira, “Matilde”, by H. G. Cancela, “World, stop quiet”, by Ricardo Araújo Pereira, “It’s not yet the panic”, by Rui Nunes, “The Honey Without Bees”, by Judite Canha Fernandes, and “Who Has Fear of the Santos of the House”, by Sara Brandão Duarte.

In the same category, they are semifinalists “Recordations and Andorinhas”, by J. Rentes de Carvalho, “If you don’t want to love me now in winter, when?” by António Cabrita, and “All Happy Families”, by Miguel d’Alte.

Portuguese authors include works by Brazilians such as Milton Hatoum, Bruna Dantas Lobato and Aline Bei, or Mozambicans such as João Paulo Borges Coelho, Énia Lipanga and Lucílio Manjate or Angolan José Eduardo Agualusa.

On the poetry side, the Portuguese “The Hands”, by Rui Teixeira Motta, “Nothing”, by Duarte Drumond Braga, “Bodies of Memory”, by Helder Macedo, and “Terreno”, by Duarte Scott are semifinalists.

The poetry list also includes works by Adriana Lisboa, Danilo Villa, Nina Rizzi or Ivana Fontes, from Brazil, along with Mozambicans Zacharias Nguenha, Ben Jone, Britos Baptista, Pedro Pereira Lopes and Whaskety Fernando.

The next phase of the award is the evaluation of the works by an intermediate jury that, in the prose, is composed by Álvaro Taruma, Mozambique, João Fernando André, Angola, Carola Saavedra and Felipe Munhoz, Brazil, and Sara Figueiredo Costa and José Mário Silva, Portugal.

In poetry, the jury consists of Leopoldina Fekayamãle, from Angola, Francisco Guita Jr., from Mozambique, Fernando Paixão and Natasha Félix, from Brazil, and Maria Antónia Oliveira and Maria João Cantinho, from Portugal.

The jury will select five finalists in each category, which will then be evaluated by international jurors, as explained by the award organization.

The Oceans is dedicated “to literary works written in Portuguese and published anywhere in the world”.