Work on poet Manuel Bandeira wins Joaquim de Carvalho Award

A work “Manuel, Flag of a Language”, by researcher Maria Aparecida Ribeiro, won the Joaquim de Carvalho Award, instituted by the Press of the University of Coimbra (IUC), today announced the institution.

Maria Aparecida Ribeiro, doctor at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and researcher at the University of Coimbra, will receive the award on Thursday.

The jury considered that this work “emphasizes Manuel Bandeira’s poetry [one of the greatest figures in Brazilian literature, deceased in 1968] and the richness of Portuguese as a space of memory, culture and identity, promoting Portuguese-speaking literature and valuing the cultural heritage shared by Portuguese-speaking countries”.

In the synopsis of the work it can be read that “Manuel Bandeira revolutionized the literary language in Brazil, which was very well received in Portugal and in African countries of Portuguese language, where many writers established dialogues and dialogues with their texts”.

“ Extended to other countries of Europe and the Americas, the success caused Flag to be translated into French, German, English, Spanish, which made the poet a flag of the Portuguese language,” he added.

Maria Aparecida Ribeiro is a master and doctor in Portuguese Literature from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and taught at Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro for more than 20 years.

Professor of the University of Coimbra (where it was added), headed the Institute of Brazilian Studies of the Faculty of Letters, coordinated the Tempus project and is an integrated member of the Portuguese Literature Center of the UC of the Interuniversity Centre for Camion Studies.

The Joaquim de Carvalho Award, worth three thousand euros, distinguishes research or scientific dissemination works that were published by the University of Coimbra Press the year immediately before.

Assigned by a multidisciplinary jury, this award “homenageia a unique figure in the history of IUC”, Joaquim de Carvalho, who was a “humanist, republican and demoliberal academic”.

“ He was the last director of the press of UC before the extinction decreed in 1934 by the then Prime Minister António de Oliveira Salazar [IUC would only be reactivated in 1998]”, the institution explained.