Participants SILA 2011

"Writer" is primarily what defines me by my way of being in the world. One way or another I always try to understand the world and bring this idea to the paper. Lucky that I have in my professional life I have also to write daily reports. But that's another script, are written with clear tape, cold, calculated for a restricted audience. My favorite scripture is one in which I can dip. It's like writing from inside a submarine and take that vision to the world.

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It is also the coordinator of the Rede Lusophone (Portuguese speaking network) of the International Alliance of Independent Publishers

Lalinon Beatrice GBADO is a writer for children. Founded in 1998, the editorial Ruisseaux d'Afrique Editions, which has a catalog with more than 150 titles now.

Her works are aimed at children from infancy through adolescence. He has published books of adventure stories, fiction, literature, poetry and books for all ages. In his work addresses issues such as unhappy childhood, the beauty of African women, emotions, sex education, the art of living in Africa ...

Ruisseaux d'Afrique is based in Cotonou. Its editorial line is to publish books that transmit African culture, heritage and values. She works with authors and illustrators from Benin, West Africa, and some of the North. Their website is: www.ruisseauxd 'afrique.com'

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Boubacar Boris Diop (Dakar, 1946) Senegalese writer. Novelist, essayist, playwright and screenwriter, was editor of the Dakar Matin.

In 1998, he participated with 10 other African writers in a writing project about the genocide in Rwanda, "Rwanda: écrire par devoir de mémoire", product of which was his work Murambi, Le Livre des ossements. Boubacar used French and Wolof in his literary creations. Currently working on several French newspapers, Italian, Swiss and senegaleses.Miembro African Social Forum.

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Celso Muianga, was born in Maputo. He lives in the city of Matola, about 12 km from the capital. He attended elementary and high school in Matola. He currently combines his journalism studies in Linguistics and Literature at the University Eduardo Mondlane.

Since 2000, coordinates the group's cultural activities of the Youth Cultural Horizon, a program of literature, theater, dance, fashion and music. From 2000 to 2005 worked in various channels of public radio station, Radio Mozambique. Radio Citadel served as editor and reporter for child and adolescent programs and later worked in spaces dedicated to Environment and Culture.

In 2002 he created and coordinated the project for the dissemination of culture and literature of Mozambique, Moçambique na Voice Count das Palavras, which included writers such as Mia Couto da Silva Calane, Aldino Muianga, Ba Ka Khosa Ungulani, Juvenal Bucuane and Fernando Pedro. The program ran successfully for three years by various schools of the city and the province of Maputo.