Luís da Silva Ribeiro Public Library Public promotes meeting with writer Nuno Camarneiro
The Regional Directorate for Culture, through the Luís da Silva Ribeiro Public Library and Regional Archive, promotes another session under the "Meet the Author" cycle on February 3 and 4. The event will be attended by Nuno Camarneiro, a young Portuguese writer who won the Leya Prize in 2012 with the work "Debaixo de Algum Céu."
The "Meet the Author" is open to the public will be held at the Library premises in Angra do Heroísmo on February 4 at 5 PM; admission is free. It also includes a session directed to secondary school students, which will take place on the previous day at 1:25 PM. The initiative aims to encourage young people's interest in the world of writing and literary creation, focusing on the most recent of that author, entitled "Se Eu Fosse Chão."
The meeting between the writer and young people intends to promote the consolidation of the taste for reading. It includes the reading of short excerpts of the work as well as an informal talk with the public.
The "Meet the Author" cycle aims to ensure a contact area between the readers and the Portuguese literary creation, allowing the public, in general, and young people, in particular, to contact with a contemporary creator and the universes of fiction. They will have the opportunity to know the details and the writer's motives, with special emphasis on the approach to the book as an essential factor in human development.
Nuno Camarneiro is a young writer and university professor. He graduated in Physics Engineering from the University of Coimbra and holds a PhD in Applied Science to Cultural Heritage at the University of Florence in Italy.
In 2011, he published his first novel, titled as "No Meu Peito Não Cabem Pássaros" was the first author chosen by Oeiras Public Library, the Portuguese partner of the initiative, to take part in the Chambéry First Novel Festival in France.
In 2012, he won the Leya Prize with the novel entitled "Debaixo de Algum Céu". In 2015, he published a book of short stories "Se Eu Fosse Chão" and the book titled as "Não Acordem os Pardais,” with illustrations by Rosário Pinheiro; it was its first attempt into children's and youth literature.
Sessions will take place at Luís da Silva Ribeiro Public Library and Regional Archive and will be moderated by Paulo Matos, who teaches Portuguese at Jerónimo Emiliano de Andrade Basic Education and Secondary School.
The Regional Directorate for Culture informs that this and other events may be consulted in the Cultural Agenda of CulturAçores Portal at the following address: www.culturacores.azores.gov.pt.