ISSUE  FIVE  •  2000  •  GLENDORA  BOOKS  SUPPLEMENT

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Three laureates share
the Prince Claus
principal  award

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mony  at  the  Royal  palace  In Amsterdam

The  principal  award  recipients  are  the  organisations  - Vitral,

a  Cuban  cultural  magazine  and  Al-Jazecra  a  satellite

nedlan  Mohamed  Fellag,  formerly  a  director  ol  the

The third  is  the

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Myerians  who  contlni

work'  through  tapes  m  Kabyle,  Arabic  and  French.

The  magazine  Vltral,  founded  In  1994 and  based  In Plnai  del
Cuba  is the  private  initiative  of  a  group  of  Independi

man  ( 

relative  protection  ot  the  Ro-
te  while  Al-

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•  ;  ition  in  the  media  cit  the  Arab  world

The  ten  laurei 

I with  the  main  awards  worth

l include  Patrick  Chamoiscau  ot  Fort de  France,  *  >

Professor  Hountondji  on  the stone steps of  Baalbeck,  near
Beirut,  Lebanon,  February  2000

--*!

The Noma award at twenty

• cdcd  the  happy  <«ilm  li l<

publl  ihlnj  and  (he  Afrk  an  woi Id,  II

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ity of Florence on the river Arno

Three laureates

younger  schol
lorallslnc  ' ondltli

creolised  French.  Paulln J.
'lountondji.  notable  African
holar  and  a  rallying  point
for Crenel i and English speak-
ing  philosophers  of  African
descent: Kenneth Yeang, Ma-
ysian  architect  who  con-
•ived  the green skyscraper
'd  whose  architecture
',  avant-garde  technol-
oducing  an  artificial
environment  that  gives  off
lenefitSSUCh  as natural  light-
ii;  natural  .lir  circulation
llccts rainwater as well

Oumar Sissobo, Malian film-
maber. Pepetela the Angolan
writer, Dessalegn  Rahmatoan
Ethiopian 
sociologist,  Tsai

hih  Chung  Chinese  car

poloyist  and  Juana  Marta
Rodu  en  lufta  Isldrej  a  ce-
,< i mk  ,,t  based  in  Paraguay.

The ten awards were pre-
sented  In  December  by  the
Dutch  ambassador  In each
recipients  country  with  a

Paulin  HountondJI  of  Benin
Republic while a citation en-
titled  The  Ever-watchful
Eyelash' was delivered on the
writer Pepetula  by South Af-

Winners in  i W7 and  1998
have included the Zimbabwe
International  Boob  Fair,  the

Yared  ami  Lond
speech  magazine.
Censorship.