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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Top 15 Best Crime Novels of 2021
Patrícia Melo // Patrícia Melo made it into the CrimeMag Top 15 of the best crime novels of the year 2021 with her novel Piled Women. Among the other authors on the list are Colin Niel, Tade Thompson, David Peace, Candice Fox, and Garry Disher. CrimeMag [...]
Writer in Residence at the Literaturhaus Zürich
Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida // Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida will be a guest at the Züricher Literaturhaus as Writer in Residence, starting in February 2022. For five months, Djaimilia will be living in the heart of Europe, with time to focus on her creative work. The [...]