Gothenburg Book Fair 

More info: bokmassan.se/
Friday, 29th September: 10.00-10.45 am

EUNIC Seminar “Att ge röst åt de fördrivna” (Trans: Giving a voice to the displaced): Irena Brežná, José Eduardo Agualusa, Nasia Dionysiou.
Moderated by Henrik C. Enbohm, writer and former board member of Swedish PEN.

Language: English.

Friday, 29th September: 16:30-16:50

“Drömmars förmåga att väcka oss: José Eduardo Agualusa" (Trans..The ability of dreams to wake us up): Karavan/Nätverkstan Kulturtidskrifter.
Moderated by Birgitta Wallin, Karavan editor.

Language: English.

Stockholm

Sunday, October 1st: 19.00

A conversation with José Eduardo Agualusa
Karavan: Timmermansgården, Timmermansgatan 46-48 (Södra Station)
Moderated by: Stefan Helgesson, Literature Professor, English Department at Stockholm University.
Reading in Swedish by Gert Lundstedt, reporter, editor and translator.

Language: English, Portuguese and Swedish.

About the writer:
José Eduardo Agualusa was born in Huambo in 1960 and is considered one of Africa’s most important writers. He studied in Lisbon and currently lives in Mozambique. Both as a novelist and a reporter Agualusa has become an important voice of his country. He has a weekly column in the prestigious Brazilian newspaper O Globo.

In 2007, Agualusa was awarded the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and in 2013 the Fernando Namora Prize and a translation grant of the English PEN in 2014. His novel A GENERAL THEORY OF OBLIVION was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2016 and was awarded the International Dublin Literary Award 2017. José Eduardo Agualusa is the winner of the National Prize for Culture and Arts in Angola 2019 in the area of literature. The jury underlined his contribution “to the emergence of the emancipated reader” and “to the strengthening of citizenship and freedom of expression”.