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International Literary Agent of the Year 2015
The Literary Agency Mertin has been voted International Literary Agent of the Year 2015 by The London Book Fair, in partnership with the UK Publishers Association! This is a great acknowledgement of our work and above all, it’s a great tribute to our outstanding authors. Christopher MacLehose of MacLehose Press, chairman [...]
Guest of Honour Portugal presents its literature despite cancellation of Leipzig Book Fair – popup book fair
The literary programme of Portugal as Guest of Honour in Leipzig will take place on Thursday, 17 March at Haus des Buches and on Friday, 18 March at Schaubühne Lindenfels both from 6 to 10 pm. The famous Blaue Sofa, organized by Bertelsmann, ZDF (Second German Television), Deutschlandfunk Kultur (German culture-oriented [...]
Spain: Translations Grants – Deadline 4th May
Spain will be Guest of Honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2022. The call for applications for Grants for Translation into Foreign Languages 2022 of the Spanish Ministry of Culture and Sport has been published. Applications may be submitted from March 28th to May 4th 2022. You can consult the text of [...]
New Translation Grant between Portugal and the USA
At a difficult time for authors and publishers, FLAD launched the first open call for the translation of literary works in order to promote Portuguese authors in the U.S. market and support Portuguese publishing companies, helping to enable works by American authors who would not otherwise arrive in Portugal. The next [...]
Yara Nakahanda Monteiro wins the Glória de Sant’Anna Literary Prize 2022
Yara Nakahanda Monteiro // Yara Nakahanda Monteiro wins with her volume of poetry Memories, Apparitions, Arrhythmias the prestigious Glória de Sant’Anna Literary Prize 2022, an award dedicated to the best book of poetry published in Portuguese speaking countries in the last year. The 10th edition of the [...]
Grand Prize for Chronicles and Literary Disperses 2022
José Eduardo Agualusa // José Eduardo Agualusa wins the Grand Prize for Chronicles and Literary Disperses with his book The Most Beautiful End of the World, published at Quetzal in 2021. The Prize, established by the Portuguese Writers' Association with the sponsorship of the Loulé Municipal [...]
Critics’ Prize of the Book Foundation in Argentina
Eugenia Almeida // Eugenia Almeida won the Critics' Prize 2019, announced at the International Book Fair of Buenos Aires, with her book of essays Flooding, published by Gabriela Halac of Ediciones DocumentA / Escénicas. The prize highlights the best Argentinean book of literary creation and was awarded for the years [...]
Inauguration of the Lídia Jorge Chair at the UMass Amherst University
Lídia Jorge // The Lídia Jorge Chair, created and announced by the UMass Amherst University in Massachussets, will be inaugurated on 5th of April in the United States of America, with a ceremony that will count with the presence of the Portuguese writer. A colloquium dedicated [...]