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'An Historic Day': Tbilisi Opens Its UNESCO World Book Capital Year

Constrained by prevailing pandemic conditions in the Republic of Georgia, a small but spirited weekend opens the 2021 chapter in UNESCO’s program.
The World Book Day handover from Kuala Lumpur to Tbilisi took place on World Book Day (April 23). Image: Georgian Publishers and Booksellers Association
Kaladze: ‘A Unique Opportunity’
As is its custom, UNESCO’s World Book Capital program used World Book Day (Friday, April 23) to make its transfer from the 2020 city to the new 2021 designee.
Less than three years after its 2018 Guest of Honor Georgia program at Frankfurter Buchmesse–World Book Capital Tbilisi (2021) has accepted its new designation in a handover ceremony with Kuala Lumpur (2020). Guadalajara has been named the 2022 World Book Capital by UNESCO. ....

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Switzerland's 2020 Jan Michalski Prize Goes to Mia Couto

The jury has praised the “exceptional quality of the writing, which subtly mixes orality and narrative, letters, tales, fables, dreams, and beliefs that are at the heart of a historical reality that of Mozambique in the late 19th century as it grapples with Portuguese colonization.
“The author excels at portraying with great empathy characters faced with the inhumanity of war, offering them an epic inspiration out of the lush natural world of Africa.”
The French edition translated by Elisabeth Monteiro Rodrigues
In winning the award, Couto is the recipient of 50,000 Swiss francs (US$56,222) and a pair of singular sculptures by the Nigerian artist Alimi Adewale, and made of ekki wood at 18 inches in height. ....

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Mozambican author Mia Couto wins the 2020 Jan Michalski Prize for Literature

Mozambican author Mia Couto wins the 2020 Jan Michalski Prize for Literature
Couto will also receive a work of art specially chosen for him. Keystone / Quique Garcia
Couto’s ‘
Sands of the Emperor’ trilogy has won him the Swiss literary prize worth CHF50,000 ($56,382).
This content was published on December 10, 2020 - 16:46
December 10, 2020 - 16:46
swissinfo.ch/ac
‘Sands of the Emperor’ trilogy (
As areias do imperador in the original Portuguese) is set in war-torn Mozambique at the end of the 19th century. The trilogy includes
Woman of the Ashes, The Sword and the Spear and
The Drinker of Horizons.
The jury praised Couto – born in 1955 – for the exceptional quality of his writing and for “portraying with great empathy characters faced with the inhumanity of war, offering them an epic inspiration out of the lush natural world of Africa”. ....

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