This is the biggest accolade in Portuguese-language literature

Published in 22/5/2019 - 16:37 By Gilberto Costa – B

Brazilian singer, songwriter, playwright, and writer Chico Buarque, 74, is the recipient of the 31ˢᵗ Camões Award. The accolade was granted yesterday (May 21ˢᵗ) and took into account the artist’s whole literary work. Along with it comes a prize of 100 thousand euros.

Regarded as the main decoration in Lusophone literature, the Camões Award was created in 1989 by Brazil and Portugal. Every year, an author is named “whose work contributes to the projection and recognition of the language,” according to the Ministry of Culture of Portugal.

Buarque debuted as a fiction writer in 1974 with the novel Fazenda modelo. He is the 13ᵗʰ Brazilian to receive the award, which has been bagged by writers Raduan Nassar (2016), Ferreira Goulart (2010), Lygia Fagundes Telles (2005), and Jorge Amado (1994), among others.

Translation: Fabrício Ferreira - Edition: Lílian Beraldo / Augusto Queiroz Source: http://agenciabrasil.ebc.com.br/en/geral/noticia/2019-05/chico-buarque-wins-camoes-lifetimeachievement-award. [Adapted]. Accessed on: October

According to Text, select the correct proposition(s).

01. Chico Buarque was the 74ᵗʰ writer to be nominated for the Camões Award.

02. The Camões Award has had 31 editions.

04. The Camões Award prize was awarded on May 21ˢᵗ.

08. A total of 13 Brazilian writers have received the Camões Award.

16. The Camões Award gives money to the writer who wins the prize.

32. Chico Buarque won the award because of a book he wrote in 1974.