The III Cycle Entre Culturas: Artes, Artistas e Intelectuais entre Portugal e África has been organised since 2023 by Lurdes Macedo and Vanessa Ribeiro-Rodrigues (LabCLIP/CICANT), in collaboration with Nuno Bessa Moreira (ULusófona/CUP). This year, 2026, the first session of this cycle will take place on 17 January, at 6:00 p.m., at Livraria do Gato Vadio, and will be dedicated to the life and work of Ana Paula Tavares.
The session follows the congress Viva no tempo e no espanto: homenagem a Ana Paula Tavares, held in October 2023 at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto (FLUP) and the University of Lisbon (FLUL). The congress aimed not only to mark the retirement of the professor from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon, but also to celebrate her literary and academic work. In 2025, Ana Paula Tavares was awarded the Camões Prize, further recognising her outstanding contribution to literature in the Portuguese-speaking world.
In 2024, the volume Viva no tempo e no espanto: homenagem a Ana Paula Tavares was published, organised by Francisco Topa and Vânia Pinheiro Chaves. The book brings together testimonies and essays resulting from the interventions presented at the 2023 congress.
A researcher, essayist, and above all a poet, chronicler, and novelist, Ana Paula Tavares is a central figure in contemporary Angolan literature and across the wider Lusophone space.
This session will feature Francisco Topa (co-editor of the book) and Francisco Soares (author of one of the essays), both researchers at CITCEM and FLUP, who will engage in a conversation with the public about the trajectory and work of an author whose writing moves between desire and memory, shaped by feminine experience and African contexts.