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Forgotten We’ll Be wins Goya Award 2021 for Best Ibero-American film
Héctor Abad Faciolince // After a strong competition Forgotten We’ll Be, an adaptation of Héctor Abad's acclaimed novel and memoir El olvido que seremos (Oblivion) wins the Goya Award 2021 for Best Ibero-American film. Antonio Banderas hosted the hybrid ceremony in Málaga. The film was directed [...]
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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 Theory, based on José Eduardo Agualusa's novel A General Theory of Oblivion. Please find more information here: > screendaily.com/news/ [...]
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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/
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Finalist of the PEN Translation Prize 2021
Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida // That Hair (“Esse cabelo”) by Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida, translated into English by Eric M. B. Becker and published at Tin House, has been selected as a finalist for the PEN Translation Prize 2021. The novel was chosen from more than [...]
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Rights Sold in China
José Eduardo Agualusa, Lídia Jorge, Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida, Mia Couto // China maintains a strong interest in the fiction of our Portuguese language authors. Latest deals are for Creole Nation (“A nação crioula”) and A Foreigner in Goa (“Um estranho em Goa”) by José Eduardo [...]
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Recommended by Michael Imperioli
Marcial Gala // Michael Imperioli, American actor, writer, and director, known for his role as Christopher Moltisanti in the HBO series "The Sopranos" recommends The Black Cathedral on Instagram: "I am really loving "THE BLACK CATHEDRAL" by the brilliant MARCIAL GALA. It is truly a work [...]
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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"). Almeida won last year's edition with her novel Luanda, Lisbon, Paradise ("Luanda, Lisboa, Paraíso"). Other previous winners are Gonçalo M. Tavares, [...]
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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 authors have made it onto that list: Marcial Gala with his novel The Black Cathedral, trans. by Anna Kushner, Djaimilia Pereira [...]
