Paulina Chiziane

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Paulina Chiziane
Short stories
Notable works
  • Sétimo juramento,
  • Niketche
Notable awards
  • Prémio José Craveirinha de Literatura
    2003
  • Prémio Camões
    2021

Paulina "Poulli" Chiziane (born 4 June 1955, Manjacaze, southern province of Gaza, Mozambique) is an author of novels and short stories in the Portuguese language.[1][2] She was awarded the 2021 Camões Prize for literature, awarded to writers from Portuguese-speaking countries.

Early life

She studied at

Ronga.[3]

Writing

Chiziane was the first woman in Mozambique to publish a novel.

Frelimo (Liberation Front of Mozambique), her narrative often reflects the social uneasiness of a country ravaged and divided by the war of liberation and the civil conflicts that followed independence. Her novel Niketche: Uma História de Poligamia (translated into English as The First Wife: A Tale of Polygamy) won the José Craveirinha Prize in 2003.[5]

Interpretation

Chiziane's writing has often been defined as political and feminist. Writing for this author is a mission. It is a way to express the difficulties that women encounter when faced with the heterogeneity of Mozambican cultural traditions and the newly developed legal and administrative systems. Chiziane's writing addresses regional differences in cultural and political aspects of gender relations. In her novel Niketche, for instance, she depicts the Mozambican South as dominated by a patriarchal culture, whereas the North is shaped by traditions of matriarchal rule. She also alludes to the fact that

Frelimo itself assumed an ambiguous attitude with regard to polygamy, making it illegal at first, but then tolerating its continuing practice. Throughout her work, Chiziane's attention has focused on broad social issues related to women's rights and concerns, such as monogamy and polygamy, but also on subjective and intimate relationships between individual men and women. Chiziane has stated that, in accordance with the tradition of her land, she considers herself a storyteller rather than a novelist.[citation needed
]

In 2016, she announced that she was retiring from writing.[6]

Novels

  • Balada de Amor ao Vento (1990),
    ISBN 978-972-21-1557-5
  • Ventos do Apocalipse (1996),
    ISBN 972-21-1262-7
  • O Setimo Juramento (2000),
    ISBN 972-21-1329-1
  • ISBN 85-359-0471-9
  • O Alegre Canto da Perdiz (2008) - Caminho,
    ISBN 978-972-21-1976-4
    .
  • As andorinhas (2009) ISBN 978-856-11-9197-9
  • Eu, mulher: por uma nova visão do mundo (2013), ISBN 8561191902
  • Ngoma Yethu: o curandeiro e o Novo Testamento (2015), ISBN 858358043X
  • O canto dos escravizados (2017), ISBN 8583580367

Awards and honours

References

  1. TSF (in Portuguese). 16 July 2003. Archived from the original
    on 16 July 2012. Retrieved 8 November 2010.
  2. ISBN 978-90-420-2580-6
    . Retrieved 8 November 2010.
  3. ^ a b Constenla, Tereixa (17 June 2023). "Paulina Chiziane, voz clave de la literatura en portugués: "En la mente colonial una mujer solo servía para cocinar o para el sexo"" [Paulina Chiziane, a key voice of Lusophone literature: "In the colonial mind, a woman only served to cook or for sex"]. El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 17 June 2023.
  4. ^ Perdigao, Yovanka Paquete (22 December 2015). "Say What! Where are the Black writers from Portuguese Africa?". Afrikult. Archived from the original on 15 July 2020. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
  5. ISBN 978-1-74059-188-1
    . Retrieved 8 November 2010.
  6. ^ "As mulheres que foram orgulho da nação, moçambicana". Retrieved 28 January 2018.
  7. ^ Coutinho, Isabel; Lucas, Isabel (20 October 2021). "Prémio Camões para a escritora moçambicana Paulina Chiziane, uma "caçadora" de histórias". Público. No. Online. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
  8. ^ mozambique. "Mozambique: First African woman writer to win Camões Prize ponders award, work". Mozambique. Retrieved 2023-02-09.
  9. ^ "Paulina Chiziane será Honoris Causa pela UP". Folha de Maputo (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-02-09.
  10. ^ "BBC 100 Women 2023: Who is on the list this year?". BBC News. November 23, 2023. Retrieved 2023-11-24.
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