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Rights sold for the Nocilla Project
Agustín Fernández Mallo // We are proud to announce that the rights for the Nocilla Project (“Proyecto Nocilla”) by Agustín Fernández Mallo have been sold to The Netherlands, Sweden and Turkey. An English edition has been published at Fitzcarraldo in the UK and at FSG in [...]
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Brown and Yellow selected by the English PEN
Paulo Scott // Brown and Yellow (“Marrom e Amarelo”) by Paulo Scott has been selected as one of 19 titles to win the flagship translation awards of the English PEN. The novel, translated from the Brazilian Portuguese by Daniel Hahn, is forthcoming at And Other Stories in [...]
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Cannes Film Festival Official Selection
Héctor Abad Faciolince // The artistic director of this year's Cannes Film Festival, Thierry Frémaux, announced a lineup of 56 films meant to represent the official Cannes 2020 selection, including Forgotten We’ll Be, directed by Fernando Trueba (Spain) and based on El olvido que seremos, the [...]
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Tierra del Fuego selected by The Guardian
Sylvia Iparraguirre // We're happy to share that Tierra del Fuego by Sylvia Iparraguirre has been selected among 10 of the best novels set in Latin American by The Guardian. > theguardian.com
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5 of our authors selected by The Guardian
Richard Zimler, Agustina Bessa-Luís, Lídia Jorge, Dulce Maria Cardoso and Miguel Torga // We're proud to share that The Guardian has published 10 of the best novels set in Portugal, including 5 of our authors: "Hunting Midnight" by Richard Zimler, stories in "Take Six: Six Portuguese Women Writers" by Agustina [...]
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Plague Diary available in English
Gonçalo M. Tavares // Gonçalo M. Tavares has been writing a daily column for the renowned Portuguese newspaper Expresso tracking the COVID-19 pandemic, entitled Plague Diary (“Diário da Peste”). In the English translation by Daniel Hahn, the first entry went online at Words Without Borders. Several [...]
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Anna Seghers Prize 2020
Hernán Ronsino // We're proud to announce that Hernán Ronsino is one of the two winners of the renowned Anna Seghers Prize 2020. The prize has been awarded since 1986 and is endowed with 12.500 € for each author. Among the former winners are authors like Nino Haratischwili, [...]
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Piled Women: TV rights sold
Patrícia Melo // We are proud to announce that we have just sold the TV rights to Piled Women (“Mulheres empilhadas”), the national bestselling novel by Patrícia Melo.
