Luanda- The Angolan writer Dario de Melo highlighted on Thursday, the need to incorporate the teaching of literature in the school curriculum.
According to the journalist, who was speaking in a conference via zoom organized by the Angolan Academy of Letters, said the intention is to allow children to have an environment with Angolan literature in the early ages since it is in schools where they have the first contact with writing and reading.
"In recent years almost no one talks about children's literature and if they do, it is usually only in the province of Luanda," the writer said.
Dario de Melo was born in Benguela on December 2, 1935. He is a writer, journalist, and teacher and member of the Angolan Journalists Union, the Angolan Writers Union (UEA), of which he was head of the general assembly between 2002 and 2010.
The writer has published several literary works for children and young people that totals 18, among which "The seven lives of a cat" in 2002, with which he won the Portuguese Speaking Countries (PALOP) Award, in 1998, in the children's literature category.
