Spain: Translations Grants – Deadline 4th May
Spain will be the Guest of Honour of the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2022. The Spanish Ministry of Culture and Sport has published the 2021 invitation for applications for Foreign [...]
Why We Choose not to See the Old published by PEN Transmissions
Dulce Maria Cardoso // In Why We Choose not to See the Old, renowned Portuguese author Dulce Maria Cardoso reveals her experience as an informal [...]
Crime Leaderboard March and April 2021
Patrícia Melo // Piled Women by Patrícia Melo is voted number 3 in March and number 6 in April on the list of the Crime [...]
Launching of “Vista Chinesa” in Brazil
Tatiana Salem Levy // Vista Chinesa, the latest novel by Tatiana Salem Levy has just been launched at Todavia in Brazil. The media coverage is [...]
Forgotten We’ll Be wins Goya Award 2021 for Best Ibero-American film
Héctor Abad Faciolince // After a strong competition Forgotten We’ll Be, an adaptation of Héctor Abad's acclaimed novel and memoir El olvido que seremos (Oblivion) [...]
The Oblivion Theory wins Berlinale Co-Production Market award
José Eduardo Agualusa // Palestinian filmmaker Annemarie Jacir has won the top prize at the Berlinale Co-Production Market to develop her upcoming feature The Oblivion [...]
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 [...]
Litprom Leaderboard Spring 2021
Germano Almeida and Patrícia Melo // Germano Almeida's The Faithful Dead and Patrícia Melo's Piled Women enter the Litprom Leaderboard Spring 2021 (Bestenliste Weltempfänger). >litprom.de/beste-buecher/weltempfaenger/
Finalist of the PEN Translation Prize 2021
Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida // That Hair (“Esse cabelo”) by Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida, translated into English by Eric M. B. Becker and published at [...]
Rights Sold in China
José Eduardo Agualusa, Lídia Jorge, Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida, Mia Couto // China maintains a strong interest in the fiction of our Portuguese language authors. [...]