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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 [...]
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 [...]
Oceanos Prize 2021
Luís Cardoso and Gonçalo M. Tavares // Luís Cardoso wins the Oceanos Prize 2021 with his novel The Pumpkin Planter. This is the first time that a book from the Asian continent is among the finalists and winners. The jury highlighted the dexterity and narrative resourcefulness of the author in [...]
“Piled Women” voted on the Crime Leaderboard 2021
Patrícia Melo // Patrícia Melo's Piled Women was ranked 9th on the Crime Leaderboard 2021 of Deutschlandfunk Kultur. The Crime Leaderboard 2021 is a selection from a total of 62 titles that were on the monthly Crime Leaderboards in 2021. > recoil.togohlis.de/