Joana Meirim, researcher at the Research Centre for Communication and Culture, Universidade Católica, won the 2022 edition of the Prémio Imprensa Nacional/Vasco Graça Moura with her doctoral thesis in Theory of Literature, entitled Uma Carta à Posteridade - Jorge de Sena e Alexandre O'Neill.

Awarded by the INCM-Imprensa Nacional Casa da Moeda, this prize aims at distinguishing original works in areas in which Vasco Graça Moura was particularly notable, namely in Poetry, Essays and Translation. 

The researcher was also responsible for other works related to Jorge de Sena and Alexandre O'Neill. For example, she was the main researcher of the project Lugares de O'Neill and coordinator of the publication of the works E a minha festa de homenagem? Ensaios para Alexandre O'Neill (2018, Tinta da China) and 'Diz-lhes que estás ocupado': Conversas com Alexandre O'Neill (2021, Tinta da China). She has also co-edited A crítica de Jorge de Sena (2022, Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal), together with Joana Matos Frias.

Sophie Pinto was awarded the 2022 Virgínia Quaresma Prize for best PhD Thesis in Culture Studies, for her thesis Urban Failures & Other Imaginations: Walking, Writing, and Transgressing the Gendered City, undertaken as part of Universidade Católica Portuguesa's PhD programme in Culture Studies, under the supervision of Professors Alexandra Lopes and Mathias Danbolt.

The Virgínia Quaresma International Award in Culture Studies is promoted by Universidade de Aveiro, with the support of the Rede Internacional em Estudos Culturais (RIEC) and the Rede Nacional em Estudos Culturais (RNEC) and has been supported, from its inception, by the Portuguese Direção Regional de Cultura do Centro.

As a result of this award, Sophie Pintos PhD thesis will be published as an ebook.

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