With this distinction the author received nine million, 51 thousand and 150 kwanzas. The award will also allow the writer to see his work edited and published.
In the award ceremony - promoted by the National Institute of Cultural and Creative Industries of the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Environment and the Dr. António Agostinho Neto Foundation - Francisco Neto explained that the work addresses issues that should be studied by younger generations.
Admitting that it is important to know the past, in order to value the present and improve the future, Francisco Neto said that the work intends to "honor the several anonymous heroes of Angola, and many paid with their lives the price of freedom.
Cited by Angop, the writer said that his work will allow readers to take "various interpretations": the "Festival of Pigs" can be seen with a request for help, by trying to draw the attention of the authorities to look at the Angolan martyrs, and can also remind Angolans who were "barbarously murdered without right to death or komba.
"We are all aware of the spiritual value that both (the death and the komba) have in the Bantu culture," he said, asking if it is no longer time to create a national komba for the martyrs to rest.
Congressman Roberto de Almeida, a writer under the pseudonym Jofre Rocha, admitted that Francisco Neto is a writer who surprises, explaining that young writers generally do not worry about writing about the past.
The prize, was instituted in 1980 in homage posthumously to Agostinho Neto and is a promotion of the National Institute of Cultural Industries and the Foundation Dr. António Agostinho Neto and intends "to encourage the literary creation between the national authors, to unleash, of systematic form, a new wave of discursive legitimation for the knowledge, consolidation and defense of the angolanity.
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