Overview

• Brazil’s Fundação Biblioteca Nacional announced the decision on Oct. 8, granting €100,000 and a diploma to be signed by the presidents of Brazil and Portugal.
• Jurors praised her “coherent trajectory of aesthetic creation” and a “restoration of poetry’s dignity,” highlighting the anthropological and historical dimension of her work.
• A six-member panel from Brazil, Portugal, Angola and Mozambique selected the laureate in a virtual meeting.
• Brazil’s culture minister and the FBN president welcomed the choice as elevating African and female voices and strengthening cultural ties across the Portuguese-speaking world.
• Tavares, 72, was born in Huíla, studied in Angola and Portugal, holds a doctorate in anthropology, and teaches at the Universidade Católica de Lisboa.