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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/
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Jan Michalski Prize 2020
Mia Couto // Mia Couto wins Jan Michalski Prize 2020 for Literature for his trilogy The Sands of the Emperor (“As Areias do Imperador”). The jury, formed of Jul (Julien Berjeaut), Siri Hustvedt, Benoît Duteurtre, Andreï Kourkov, Alicia Giménez Bartlett, and Tomasz Różycki, hailed the “exceptional quality of the writing, [...]
The Best Books of 2020: Literature in Translation!
Marcial Gala // Marcial Gala's novel The Black Cathedral ("La catedral de los negros") has been included in The 10 Best Books in translation by Steve Donoghue in Open Letters Review. > openlettersreview.com