Delmar Maia Gonçalves recently visited the city of Quelimane. He was the special guest at a book fair organized by the local municipality. He was no longer a simple participant, he was honored as a crucial figure for the internationalization of Mozambican literature.
Delmar Gonçalves is a Mozambican in the diaspora. He lives in Portugal, where he presides over the Circle of Mozambican Writers in the Diaspora (CEMD). Meanwhile, he was born in Quelimane on July 5, 1969.
He has published more than a dozen books, including “Moçambique Novo o Enigma”, “Afrozambeziando Ninfas e Deusas”, “Mestiço de Corpo Inteiro” and “Entre two rivers with banks”. He has already been awarded the Ferreira de Castro National Youth Literature Prize in Poesia 1987 and Lusofonia 2017, as well as the Africa Today 2006 literary awards; and Kanimambo 2008.
As a way to kick off the fair, at least in terms of conversations, the honoree will give a lecture tomorrow, at Licungo University, entitled “Poetry between utopia and dystopia”.
