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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 [...]
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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, [...]
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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
Passion and Patience
Publishers Weekly talks with German Agent Nicole Witt about the current state of the Spanish-language market > publishersweekly.com
Shortlist of the São Paulo Prize for Literature 2020
Adriana Lisboa, Patrícia Melo, Paulo Scott and Joca Reiners Terron // Adriana Lisboa, Patrícia Melo, Paulo Scott and Joca Reiners Terron are four out of ten finalists of the São Paulo Prize for Literature 2020. The prize is one of the main references for novels in Brazil. The prize consists [...]
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Shortlist of the Oceanos Prize 2020
Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida and José Luís Peixoto // Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida and José Luís Peixoto are two out of ten finalists of the Prêmio Oceanos 2020, one of the main references in the literary scene of Portuguese language. Both authors are participating with their latest novels, de Almeida [...]
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FIL Prize in Romance Languages 2020
Lídia Jorge // Opening and concession ceremony: Saturday 28th November 2020 The International Book Fair (FIL) of Guadalajara has granted the renowned FIL Prize in Romance Languages 2020 to the Portuguese author Lídia Jorge “because of the magnitude of her work, which portrays the way in [...]
