Angolan writer Ondjaki, winner of the Saramago Award 2013 with the novel “Os Transparentes”, will be at the Pátio de Letras bookstore, in Faro, on Monday, the 25th, for an informal conversation with the public.
The meeting is scheduled for 18:00, a rare opportunity to meet the writer, currently based in Rio de Janeiro.
It is also the second award the writer has received this year, after the National Children's Book Foundation Award.
Ondjaki recently edited “Uma Escuridão Bonita”, illustrated by António Jorge Gonçalves. “There are two young people who are on a balcony in Luanda and there is no light. People think it's metaphorical darkness, but no, it's real darkness. And the whole book is a conversation during that darkness. It's a book of affection, of tenderness and it has a very beautiful illustration”, says Ondjaki.
“Os Transparentes” was published in 2012 and, according to Vasco Graça Moura, is surprising for “the way in which his use of the Portuguese language is not only able to capture with the greatest naturalness the most diverse situations in a social context so different from ours, but it contains in itself the ferments of an innovation that mirrors with strength and realism a daily life lived in its trepidation and also works effectively to restore it on the literary plane”.
The session will be presented by Adriana Nogueira, professor at the University of Algarve.
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