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By Catarina Demony and Miguel Pereira<\/p>\n

QUELUZ, Portugal (Reuters) – Brazilian writer and musician Chico Buarque received on Monday the most prestigious literary award for Portuguese-language, with the ceremony happening four years after he won it due to an impasse caused by former President Jair Bolsonaro.<\/p>\n

Buarque was awarded in 2019 the Camoes Prize, which every year recognises an author from a Portuguese-speaking nation. It was previously given to writers such as Portugal’s Jose Saramago and Mozambique’s Paulina Chiziane. <\/p>\n

The prize, named after Portuguese poet Luis de Camoes, was created by Portugal and Brazil in 1988. Each country contributes 50,000 euros ($55,125.00) to the award. <\/p>\n

When Buarque won, Bolsonaro refused to sign the award diploma, delaying the ceremony. <\/p>\n

The artist, who is revered in Brazil as a national hero best known for his political songs against military dictatorship, is a supporter of current President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and openly criticised Bolsonaro’s cultural policies.<\/p>\n

Far-right Bolsonaro shut down the culture ministry, reducing it to an office of the tourism ministry. <\/p>\n

“Four years of a disastrous government lasted forever because time seemed to go backwards,” Buarque said at the ceremony, which took place at a palace in Queluz, near the Portuguese capital.<\/p>\n

“The (Bolsonaro) government was defeated at the polls but we can’t be distracted because the fascist threat persists in Brazil and elsewhere,” he added.<\/p>\n

The glittering palace room was packed with politicians, well-known writers and other artists, who gave Buarque a standing ovation when he walked in. Buarque’s work includes prize-winning novels, such as Estorvo and Budapest. <\/p>\n

Buarque was also an opponent of the two decade-long military dictatorship in Brazil that began in 1964.<\/p>\n

Lula arrived in Portugal on Friday for a five-day visit, his first to Europe since taking office as president, and attended Buarque’s event. <\/p>\n

“It is for me a satisfaction to correct one of the biggest mistakes … committed against Brazilian culture in recent times,” Lula said. “The attack on culture … was an important dimension of the project the extreme-right tried to implement in Brazil”<\/p>\n

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(Reporting by Catarina Demony, Miguel Pereira and Rodrigo Antunes; Editing by Marguerita Choy)<\/p>\n

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