The Prize Vasco Moura-Citizenship Cultural Grace was awarded unanimously, the essayist Eduardo Lourenço, 92, announced on Sunday the Estoril-Sol, which established the award in partnership with Babel publisher.
The prize, which is awarded for the first time, has an annual basis and the cash value of 40,000 euros, having been created to honor the memory of p Oeta, essayist, novelist, playwright, columnist and translator, Vasco Graça Moura who died at age 72, on April 27, 2014, and played for the President of the Centro Cultural de Belém, in Lisbon. It is reserved for a Portuguese national personality, which has been noted for a number of works or an original and innovative work of exceptional value to the cultural citizenship of the country.
The award jury was chaired by Guilherme d’Oliveira Martins, the National Cultural Centre, and, in minutes, that the Lusa had access, it reads that after appreciated the names of several candidates proposed, Eduardo Lourenço collected “unanimity”, according to their “intellectual journey”, which “fully corresponds to the objectives set when creating this award.”
“This is a multi-faceted personality that distinguishes consistency between an independent and open thinking and constant attention to the Portuguese society, its culture, a universal perspective, looming reflection on a Europe open to the world and never closed in any fortress closed in selfishness and prejudice, “reads the same document.
“In times of uncertainty it is a voice of hope, which calls for dialogue and peace, safeguarding of freedom of conscience and critical sense. His heterodoxy remains alive and present on behalf of civic commitment to freedom and joint liability, “said the jury in the minutes. ” Moreover, Vasco Graça Moura expressed in different circumstances expressly his admiration for Eduardo Lourenço personality as an intellectual and citizen, especially when it was the main promoter of the winning candidacy of essayist to the European Prize Charles Veillon test (1988), the purpose of publishing We and Europe or the two reasons. The recognition of a largely devoted personality is like that, and also a tribute to Vasco Graça Moura, who both enjoyed the work and Eduardo Lourenço person “, concludes the jury.
PUBLIC, asserting itself “very honored” with the award Vasco Graça Moura – Cultural Citizenship, Eduardo Lourenço adds that the distinction touched especially by the quality of the jury, chaired by Guilherme d’Oliveira Martins, and the fact that the award be named Vasco Graça Moura, who considered “a person really unusual in his generation and beyond.”
“With my age I’m used to these things, but it is always surprising, because many people in the country who deserve this award as much or more than me. “Lawrence sees the new generations” a dynamism that did not exist “in his.” People who went there out, or even there is, and I do not speak only of the literary domain, but also the arts, ballet, or the many small Damasios we have today. “
The essayist also highlights the case of the cinema, where” a generation ago with a great coherence and an amazing visibility out there that had never existed. ” He concludes, “But if they want to reward an older person, okay”
As these young Portuguese who walked or walk around the world, also the author of The Saudade Labyrinth he spent much of his life abroad, but in a sense never left Portugal, and the country that physically left behind was always obsessively this theme in his work. And this new generation of creators, scientists, academics, which has grown in a globalized world, keep the same rooting when you leave the country in search of better opportunities? Eduardo Lourenço thinks so, and says one of those fulminating paradoxical syntheses as constitutive of his thought: “They take the country with them, because this country is too small for us to be able to leave.”
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