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Casino da Póvoa do Correntes d’Escritas Literary Prize 2020
Pepetela // Pepetela wins the Casino da Póvoa do Correntes d’Escritas Literary Prize 2020 with his novel His Excellency, R.I.P. (“Sua Excelência, de Corpo Presente”). The prize consists of 20.000,00 €. > publico.pt
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Tira preselected for the Platino Awards
Boris Quercia // The TV series Tira, based on the novel Santiago Quiñones, Cop (“Santiago Quiñones, tira”) by Boris Quercia is among the 20 pre-selected series for the Platino Awards with nominations in five categories. The Platino is an important movie award for film projects from [...]
© Daniela Abad
Oblivion adapted by Oscar winning Fernando Trueba
Héctor Abad Faciolince // The bestselling novel and memoir Oblivion / Forgotten We'll Be (“El olvido que seremos”) by the Colombian author Héctor Abad has been adapted as a feature film by Oscar winning film director Fernando Trueba (“Belle Epoque”), starring Javier Cámara (“Talk to Her”). [...]
© Khasraw Hamakarim
Interview in the Los Angeles Review of Books
Bachtyar Ali // In an interview in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Behrouz Boochani appoints Bachtyar Ali as his favorite Kurdish writer next to the poet Sherko Bekas. Boochani is a Kurdish-Iranian journalist, human rights defender, writer and film producer who was held in the Australian-run Manus [...]
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Next Decade: Six names to mark the coming years
Gonçalo M. Tavares // The prestigious Portuguese weekly magazine Expresso has chosen six names to mark the coming years, in Portugal and abroad. A work to read in the special edition dedicated to the next decade. Leaders and references in culture, the fight for the environment, [...]
© Anna Eichenbronner
Writers to Watch Spring 2020 @ Publishers Weekly
Marcial Gala // We're happy to share that The Black Cathedral by our Cuban author Marcial Gala, just published in a beautiful edition at FSG, was included in Publishers Weekly’s "Writers to Watch Spring 2020". > publishersweekly.com Farrar, Straus and Giroux acquired world English rights to [...]
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2nd place of the Oceanos Prize 2019
Dulce Maria Cardoso // Dulce Maria Cardoso wins the second place of the Oceanos Prize 2019 with her novel Eliete - A Normal Life (“Eliete - A vida normal”). The prize consists of 80.000 R$ (approx. 17.270,00 €). > associacaooceanos.pt
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Interviews with El Espectador and the BBC
Héctor Abad Faciolince // Héctor Abad’s new book What Was Present. Diaries (1985-2006) (“Lo que fue presente. Diarios, 1985-2006”) was published at Alfaguara in November 2019. Please find a detailed interview with the author in El Espectador. Héctor Abad in his big BBC interview about his novel Oblivion [...]
