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                         Helia Correia dedicated Camões Prize to Greece – The Helia Correia writer was awarded this Tuesday in Lisbon, with the Camões Prize, which received from the hands of the Secretary of State for Culture, Jorge Barreto Xavier and the Brazilian Minister of Culture, Juca Ferreira.
 
 The author of works such as “The Dividing the Waters ‘,’ The Eternal House”, “bastard” or “Illness”, joins so the likes of Miguel Torga, Virgil Ferreira, José Saramago, Pepetela, Mia Couto or Jorge Amado . “The weight of these names bend and stronger people than me,” confessed the author to receive the main literary distinction in Portuguese, worth 100 thousand euros. “I am with them, without being among them. And I’m like that, “he added.
 
 The Brazilian Minister of Culture had just defend “planetary affirmation of the Portuguese language, entering the global market of symbolic goods” and, citing Person, recalled that “our country is the Portuguese language ‘. Helia Correia answered: “Love over the language of that country,” clarifying, however, that “it is not a blind love: the language must take the world as blood occupies the heart” to argue that the language of Camões’s claim It can not do by decree, “repression is mechanical, but the language is biological” he argued.
 
 And if the president of the jury, Rita Marnoto, justified the award with the “universal aspect of the author and attention to the real world”, Helia Correia did not hesitate to take the floor to criticize what it sees as a “new age average ‘.
 
 “The dictatorship of the economy, the word is overwhelmed by the number. Mathematics, which began noble, became lackey. “Condemned the writer, lamenting that” we have no poet-kings “.
 
 In turn, Jorge Barreto Xavier, considered that Helia Correia «loves so the literature you receive a distinction for this love is like, for anyone of us to be rewarded by breath” and ended his speech with a poem of the author, degree in Romance Philology, on Greece.
 
 Minutes later, the author said:
 
 “I dedicate this award to Greece, without which we would have nothing. Ζήτω η Ελλάδα -. Long live Greece ‘