Spanish feminist group to award three Portuguese women
Lídia Jorge, Maria Antónia Palla and Teresa Salgueiro will receive, on Thursday in Madrid, the Club of 25 Awards, which distinguish six women who have distinguished themselves in the fight for equal opportunities. The 2022 edition of the awards ceremony will be held at the official residence of the Portuguese ambassador in Spain with the presence of several personalities and authorities from the world of politics, culture and art.
Writer and editor Lídia Jorge is one of three Portuguese prize winners, with the Club of 25 stressing that she has “a unique and recognized voice in the panorama of contemporary Portuguese literature”, with many editions of each of her works translated into other languages. The journalist and writer Maria Antónia Palla is another one of those distinguished by the organization, who highlighted the fact that she was part of the first group of women journalists admitted by competition onto the editorial staff of the Spanish daily newspaper Diário Popular and the first woman responsible for the Welfare Fund for Journalists.
Singer and composer Teresa Salgueiro will also be distinguished, with the Club of 25 feminist organization recalling that at the age of 17 Salgueiro was invited to join the founding of the Portuguese group Madredeus, later recording nine albums of original music, created especially for her voice, and that for 20 years, from 1987 to 2007, the group sold more than five million records worldwide, having become “one of the main representatives of Portuguese music”.
The award ceremony for the 25th edition of the Club of 25 Awards will be attended by the Portuguese Ambassador in Spain, João Mira Gomes, personalities from the world of culture, such as Pilar del Rio and political authorities, such as the Spanish minister of equality, Irene Montero, the Spanish minister of defense, Margarita Robles, and the former mayor of Madrid, Manuela Carmena, among others.
The Club of 25 is a feminist association made up of women united by “fighting for real equality, for giving visibility to women in a prominent place in all sectors and for working on issues that particularly affect women, such as gender violence, the pay gap or sexual harassment.”
Two years ago, the association, which has a long history in the feminist movement in Spain, decided to open a new stage of alliances with Atlantic countries, and has now found “a good occasion to inaugurate this new cooperation” with its neighbor, Portugal.
