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Inauguration of the Lídia Jorge Chair at the UMass Amherst University
Lídia Jorge // The Lídia Jorge Chair, created and announced by the UMass Amherst University in Massachussets, will be inaugurated on 5th of April in the United States of America, with a ceremony that will count with the presence of the Portuguese writer. A colloquium dedicated [...]
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Finalist of the 2022 Rodolfo Walsh Award
Federico Mastrogiovanni // Federico Mastrogiovanni's This Is Where the Homeland Ends is under the five finalists of the Rodolfo Walsh Award 2022 for the best non-fiction crime novel written in Spanish. It is one of several prizes presented during the Semana Negra in Gijón, Spain. The [...]
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Longlist of the International Booker Prize 2022
Paulo Scott // Phenotypes written by Paulo Scott and translated into English by Daniel Hahn, has been longlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize. The longlist of 13 titles has been selected from 135 submissions. The English edition was published at And Other Stories in January this year. This is [...]
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The New York Times Book Review features “The Wind Whistling in the Cranes”
Lídia Jorge // The Wind Whistling in the Cranes, launched on 8th February by Liveright (Norton), has been featured in the New York Times Book Review. “The novel moves rhythmically.…This is a thrillingly immersive ‘parable about life, about the struggle between rich and poor, between one [...]
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Vogue and Kirkus Reviews on “The Wind Whistling in the Cranes”
Lídia Jorge // The Wind Whistling in the Cranes, launched on 8th February by Liveright (Norton), has already received several excellent reviews. "Jorge delivers a dose of near-contemporary history tempered by a page-turning family saga and romance." Kirkus Review > kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/ "Comparisons have already been drawn [...]
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New York Times Globetrotting list
Paulo Scott // Paulo Scott's "Phenotypes" made it onto the New York Times Globetrotting list which gives us a sneak preview of books in translation coming out in 2022. And Other Stories published the novel on 4th of January, already to great acclaim of the media, such as The Guardian, [...]
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Presentation of Finalists of Casino da Póvoa Award
José Luis Peixoto, Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida, Paulo Scott, Mia Couto, and Gonçalo M. Tavares // We are proud to announce that among the fourteen finalists of the Casino da Póvoa Award, that have been announced on 20 January, there are five of our authors. Autobiography by José Luis Peixoto, [...]
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New York Times Book Review of Gala’s Call Me Cassandra
Marcial Gala // Call Me Cassandra, published at FSG on 11 January, has already received an excellent review in the New York Times. "Dazzling . . . Deftly pushing the boundaries of both realism and first-person perspective . . . Gala constructs sentences and scenes that [...]
