Ondjaki: Q&A session with the Angolan-Portuguese writer
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- Speaker(s):
- Ondjaki
- Event date:
- Wednesday 20 February 2008
School of Advanced Study, University of London
- Description
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John Coffin Lecture: Ondjaki was born in Luanda in 1977. He completed his degree in Sociology in Lisbon in 2002 with a study on the great Angolan writer Luandino Vieira. A versatile young talent and a most promising writer of the Portuguese language in Africa, he has already had paintings exhibited, given public performances as an actor, as well as published his own poems and novels. Ondjaki has been awarded the Grande Prémio de Conto Camilo Castelo Branco 2008 by the Portuguese Writers' Association for his novel Os da Minha Rua. In 2008 he was distinguished with the Grinzane for Africa award, in category of young writer.