Writer from Minas Gerais Adelia Prado wins the Camões Prize and prepares to release a new book | National newspaper

Writer Adelia Prado won the Minas Gerais Prize Camões Prize, and the most important in the Portuguese language. The award is awarded by the Portuguese and Brazilian governments.

From the house where she lives in Divinopolis, within the state of Minas Gerais, Adelia Prado thanked her for the award in writing, In a simple way.

“It is with great happiness and emotion that I received a phone call on Wednesday (26th) from the Portuguese Minister of Culture informing me that I had been awarded the Camões Prize.”

The poet, short story writer, and novelist began writing at the age of forty. Adelia became known after she recited some poems to the poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade. He was impressed and sent the texts to the publisher.

“He discovered it and today it is the Brazil that was discovered in Adelia Prado, in her work. The triumph of free poetry and the content that represents her loyalty. Loyalty to the woman who is, to the mission of poetry, to Brazil,” says Marco Lucchesi, head of the National Library.

Hey Camões Prize He acknowledges the greatness of Adelia Prado's work; Simplicity, precision of words, and poetry that reveals the feminine perspective of daily life, family, and faith, flowing without haste, in the rhythm of the interior of Minas.

After ten years of not publishing, Adelia Prado, 88, is preparing to release a new book of poetry.

“It is a difficult book for me. It is difficult to write, because the experiences that produced those poems were difficult experiences, but of course there is joy. Because if it is a true poem, there is no poem that does not contain joy,” the writer says.

Although she lives far from the limelight, Adelia Prado recently appeared on social media to read her poems and move us.

“Oh, short and sweet life. The cicada is putting its claws into my heart. I don't understand what it's screaming. I know it's pure hope.”