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Grand Prize for Chronicles and Literary Disperses 2022
José Eduardo Agualusa // José Eduardo Agualusa wins the Grand Prize for Chronicles and Literary Disperses with his book The Most Beautiful End of the World, published at Quetzal in 2021. The Prize, established by the Portuguese Writers' Association with the sponsorship of the Loulé Municipal [...]
Critics’ Prize of the Book Foundation in Argentina
Eugenia Almeida // Eugenia Almeida won the Critics' Prize 2019, announced at the International Book Fair of Buenos Aires, with her book of essays Flooding, published by Gabriela Halac of Ediciones DocumentA / Escénicas. The prize highlights the best Argentinean book of literary creation and was awarded for the years [...]
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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, [...]
