Longlisted for Oceanos Prize 2021
Gonçalo M. Tavares, Lídia Jorge, José Eduardo Agualusa, Germano Almeida, Mia Couto, and Luís Cardoso // We’re happy to announce that Gonçalo M. Tavares, Lídia Jorge, José Eduardo Agualusa, [...]
Number 1 of Buchkultur’s “The Top Ten Crime Novels of the Season”
Patrícia Melo// Patrícia Melo has been voted Number 1 of Buchkultur's "The Top Ten Crime Novels of the Season", ahead of Giancarlo De Cataldo, Merle [...]
Shortlist of Grand Prize for Novel 2020
Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida // Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida's The Telephones is one out of out of five finalists of the Grand Prize for Novel [...]
Crime Leaderboard March, April, and May 2021
Patrícia Melo // Piled Women by Patrícia Melo was voted number 3 in March and is still part of the April and May lists of [...]
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 [...]
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/
2nd place of the Oceanos Prize 2020
Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida // Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida wins the second place of the Oceanos Prize 2020 with her novel The Vision of Plants ("A Visão das Plantas"). [...]
75 Notable Translations of 2020
Marcial Gala, Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida, Graciliano Ramos // World Literature Today has compiled a list of 75 Notable Translations of 2020. Three of our [...]
The Best Books of 2020: Literature in Translation!
Marcial Gala // Marcial Gala's novel The Black Cathedral ("La catedral de los negros") has been included in The 10 Best Books in translation by [...]
Forgotten We’ll Be Film Premiere
Héctor Abad Faciolince // This year’s San Sebastian Film Festival closed with the international premiere of the Colombian filmmaker Fernando Trueba’s Forgotten We’ll Be, out [...]