Lusophone Voices: A Reading & Conversation with José Eduardo Agualusa
Lusophone Voices: A Reading & Conversation with José Eduardo Agualusa. Moderated by Linda [...]Heywood. At the Boston University Castle. Tuesday, April 12, 2016.
José Eduardo Agualusa [Alves da Cunha] was born 1960 in Huambo and is considered one of Angola’s most important writers. He studied agronomy and forestry in Lisbon before starting his writing career as a poet. His novel Creole was awarded the Portuguese Grand Prize for Literature, and he recently received the U.K.'s Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in the U.K. for The Book of Chameleons. His books have been translated into more than 25 languages.
His most recent novel to be translated into English, A General Theory of Oblivion (from which he reads in this video) tells the story of Angola through Ludo, a woman who bricks herself into her apartment on the eve of Angolan independence. Published by Archipelago Books last year, the book was one of thirteen finalists for the Man Booker International Prize (awarded annually on the basis of the single book) and one of twenty-five finalists for the Best Translated Book Award (by Three Percent) of 2015.
This year's European Voices events are organized in collaboration with the literary journal AGNI and the Goethe-Institut Boston and are taking place as part of a larger project entitled EU Futures, the aim of which is to explore the emerging future in Europe. The EU Futures project is supported by a Getting to Know Europe Grant from the European Commission Delegation in Washington, DC to the Center for the Study of Europe at Boston University.
José Eduardo Agualusa's visit was co-sponsored by the African Studies Center at Boston University and UMASS Lowell.
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