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Bellas Artes Prize for the Best Translation
Gonçalo M. Tavares // After A Girl is Lost in Her Century Looking for Her Father by Gonçalo M. Tavares has already been finalist of the prizes Oceanos (Brazil) and Jean-Monnet (France) and winner of the Tabula Rasa (Portugal) and now the Bellas Artes Prize for [...]
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In Memoriam: Agustina Bessa-Luís
Agustina Bessa-Luís * 5 October 1922 - † 3 June 2019 Agustina Bessa-Luís passed away in Porto on 3rd of June 2019. Born in 1922 in the North of Portugal, Bessa-Luís is considered one of the most important writers of contemporary Portuguese literature. She has novels, stories, plays, and essays [...]
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Mexican Academy of Language
Rogelio Guedea // We're proud to inform that Rogelio Guedea has been admitted to the Mexican Academy of Language, the Mexican equivalent of the Royal Spanish Academy.
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Best Translation Award Japan
José Luís Peixoto // The novel "Galveias" by José Luís Peixoto has won the The Best Translation Award in Japan. > besttranslationaward.com/
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HBO announces QualityLand series
Marc-Uwe Kling // HBO announces QualityLand series. It will be a co-production between HBOand Lionsgate. Mike Judge, screenwriter, producer, and actor, will co-write and executive produce the pilot with Josh Lieb ("Silicon Valley", "The Tonight Show", "The Daily Show"). > hollywoodreporter.com
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Finalist of the Jean Monnet Prize
Gonçalo M. Tavares // Gonçalo M. Tavares is finalist of the Jean Monnet Prize for the best European book published in France with his novel A Girl is Lost in Her Century Looking for Her Father (“Uma menina está perdida no seu século à procura do [...]
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The Invisibles enters list of the Crime Leaderboard
Lucía Puenzo // The Invisibles ("Los invisibles") by Lucía Puenzo enters the February list of the Crime Leaderboard (KrimiBestenliste), a joint project of the FAZ and Deutschlandradio Kultur, as number three. Every month, a list of ten crime novels is compiled by a jury of 19 critics [...]
Casa de las Américas Prize 2019
Adriana Lisboa // With her volume of poetry Small Music (“Uma pequena música”) the Brazilian writer Adriana Lisboa is second in the category “Poetry” of the prestigious Premio Literario Casa de las Américas 2019, one of the most important Latin American literary awards. > escambray.cu/ [...]
