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 [...]
Brown and Yellow selected by the English PEN
Paulo Scott // Brown and Yellow (“Marrom e Amarelo”) by Paulo Scott has been selected as one of 19 titles to win the flagship translation [...]
Cannes Film Festival Official Selection
Héctor Abad Faciolince // The artistic director of this year's Cannes Film Festival, Thierry Frémaux, announced a lineup of 56 films meant to represent the [...]
Tierra del Fuego selected by The Guardian
Sylvia Iparraguirre // We're happy to share that Tierra del Fuego by Sylvia Iparraguirre has been selected among 10 of the best novels set in [...]
5 of our authors selected by The Guardian
Richard Zimler, Agustina Bessa-Luís, Lídia Jorge, Dulce Maria Cardoso and Miguel Torga // We're proud to share that The Guardian has published 10 of the best novels set in [...]
Tira preselected for the Platino Awards
Boris Quercia // The TV series Tira, based on the novel Santiago Quiñones, Cop (“Santiago Quiñones, tira”) by Boris Quercia is among the 20 pre-selected [...]
Next Decade: Six names to mark the coming years
Gonçalo M. Tavares // The prestigious Portuguese weekly magazine Expresso has chosen six names to mark the coming years, in Portugal and abroad. A work [...]