QUELUZ, Portugal, April 24 (Reuters) – Brazilian author and musician Chico Buarque acquired on Monday probably the most prestigious literary award for Portuguese-language, with the ceremony occurring 4 years after he gained it on account of an deadlock attributable to former President Jair Bolsonaro.
Buarque was awarded in 2019 the Camoes Prize, which yearly recognises an writer from a Portuguese-speaking nation. It was beforehand given to writers comparable to Portugal’s Jose Saramago and Mozambique’s Paulina Chiziane.
The prize, named after Portuguese poet Luis de Camoes, was created by Portugal and Brazil in 1988. Every nation contributes 50,000 euros ($55,125.00) to the award.
When Buarque gained, Bolsonaro refused to signal the award diploma, delaying the ceremony.
The artist, who’s revered in Brazil as a nationwide hero finest identified for his political songs towards navy dictatorship, is a supporter of present President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and overtly criticised Bolsonaro’s cultural insurance policies.
Far-right Bolsonaro shut down the tradition ministry, decreasing it to an workplace of the tourism ministry.
“4 years of a disastrous authorities lasted without end as a result of time appeared to go backwards,” Buarque mentioned on the ceremony, which befell at a palace in Queluz, close to the Portuguese capital.
“The (Bolsonaro) authorities was defeated on the polls however we won’t be distracted as a result of the fascist menace persists in Brazil and elsewhere,” he added.
The glittering palace room was filled with politicians, well-known writers and different artists, who gave Buarque a standing ovation when he walked in. Buarque’s work consists of prize-winning novels, comparable to Estorvo and Budapest.
Buarque was additionally an opponent of the 2 decade-long navy dictatorship in Brazil that started in 1964.
Lula arrived in Portugal on Friday for a five-day go to, his first to Europe since taking workplace as president, and attended Buarque’s occasion.
“It’s for me a satisfaction to appropriate one of many greatest errors … dedicated towards Brazilian tradition in latest instances,” Lula mentioned. “The assault on tradition … was an necessary dimension of the venture the extreme-right tried to implement in Brazil”
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Reporting by Catarina Demony, Miguel Pereira and Rodrigo Antunes; Modifying by Marguerita Choy
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