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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]