PEN Clube and Literature Without Frontiers Prize
Gonçalo M. Tavares // Gonçalo M. Tavares is one of five finalists of the Prémio PEN Clube with his novel The Woman-Without-a-Head and the Man-With-the-Evil-Eye [...]
Shortlisted for the Jabuti Prize 2018
Joca Reiners Terron // Night Within Night (“Noite dentro da noite”) by Joca Reiners Terron has been shortlisted for the Jabuti Prize 2018 in the [...]
Invitation to Shanghai International Literary Week
Mia Couto // Mia Couto is invited to the Shanghai International Literary Week (SILW) in August in Shanghai, next to Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk. Four [...]
German Science Fiction Award 2018
Marc-Uwe Kling // Marc-Uwe Kling receives the German Science Fiction Award 2018 for his novel QualityLand. According to the jury, QualityLand is the best German genre novel [...]
QualityLand rights acquired by Kawade Shobo Shinsha
Marc-Uwe Kling // Rights to QualityLand by Marc-Uwe Kling have just been acquired by Kawade Shobo Shinsha, one of the most important literary publishing houses [...]
Premi Llibreter 2018
José Eduardo Agualusa // José Eduardo Agualusa has been awarded the Premi Llibreter 2018 in Barcelona for the Catalan translation of his novel Teoria Geral do [...]
Camões Prize 2018
Germano Almeida // Germano Almeida of Cape Verde is the winner of the 2018 Camões Prize for Literature, the most prestigious international award honoring the [...]
Nat Geo Kids develops animated series
Flávia Lins e Silva // Nat Geo Kids has greenlit its first two original productions for children in Latin America, entitled Nat Geo Lab and [...]
In Memoriam: Carlos Heitor Cony
Carlos Heitor Cony * 14 March 1926 - † 5 January 2018 CARLOS HEITOR CONY PASSED AWAY ON 5TH JANUARY 2018. Carlos Heitor Cony is one of Brazil's most [...]
