NEWS
Claudia Piñeiro‘s latest novel Un comunista en calzoncillos
(“A Communist in Underpants”) was one of the bestselling books at the Buenos Aires
Book Fair and is now on the bookstore’s bestseller lists in front of Pérez-Reverte and Marcela Serrano!
Ondjaki
and Tatiana
Salem Levy have been awarded the Prize of the National Foundation of
Infantile and Juvenile Books of Brazil! Levy won the category
Revelation Writer with Curupira Pirapora, Ondjaki the category Best Title Destined For
Children and Young Adults with A Bicicleta
que tinha bigodes (“The Bike That Had a Moustache”).
The movie Wakolda,
directed by Lucía
Puenzo, has been selected for this
year’s Cannes
Film Festival for the category “Un Certain Regard”. The homonymous
novel has been translated in a number of languages.
El crimen de los Tepames (“The Crime of Los Tepames”)
by Rogelio Guedea is now among the bestselling books in Mexico’s most important bookstore, Librería
Gandhi, next to Haruki Murakami and Julio Cortázar.
Richard Zimler will be launching
the French
edition of his much-praised novel The Warsaw Anagrams
on May 22 at 6 p.m. at the Librairie Filigranes in Brussels.
The independent
English publishing house And Other Stories would like to invite you
to have a look at three world class authors, recommended by eminent translators
for their next Portuguese(-language) reading group: José Eduardo Agualusa, Ondjaki
and Luandino
Vieira. You can download the English sample translations here:
www.andotherstories.org/author/jose-eduardo-agualusa
www.andotherstories.org/author/ondjaki
www.andotherstories.org/author/jose-luandino-vieira
Literary agent Nicole Witt’s new column can now also be read
in English
in the renowned online magazine Publishing Perspectives.
You can read the whole column here:
In the prestigious Anagrama Award for
Essays, Jorge Carrión has come second
with his book Librerías,
which will be published in September. Librerías is a survey of the
history of book stores all over the world, their relationships with
writers and how they became center pieces of culture
or political resistance.
More than two weeks ago, the famous photographer Daniel Mordzinksi learned that most of his files, which
had been kept in a department of the Le Monde
building in Paris for the past 27 years, had disappeared. Half a lifetime
of pictures of famous authors and artists are irretrievably lost.
Daniel Mordzinski's
portraits are on many occasions the first impression that editors and co-agents
get of our new authors when they browse through our catalogue or have a look at
the agency's homepage. There couldn't be a better introduction than these
insightful and beautiful professional creations that are characteristic of
everything Daniel Mordzinski undertakes, just like
the amicable generosity he has shown us over the years.
Tatiana
Salem Levy and Rafael
Cardoso have been invited to Frankfurt to talk about the Brazilian metropolis Rio de Janeiro. Salem Levy will read from her novel
Dois Rios.
When: Monday,
March 18, 19:30
Where: Zentralbibliothek, Hasengasse 4, Frankfurt am Main
The following 15 of our Brazilian authors have been invited to be part
of the official delegation at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2013:
Adélia Prado
André Sant'Anna
You're welcome to ask for more detailed
information.
We are proud to present a whole host of new authors to you: Julieta Arroquy (Argentina),
Tatiana Salem Levy
(Brazil), Patrícia Melo (Brazil),
Viviana Rivero (Argentina), Carola
Saavedra (Brazil), Camilo
Sánchez
(Argentina), Paulo Scott (Brazil) and our graphic novel Gabo.
More information will soon be available on our homepage and in our
London catalogue.
Literary agent Nicole Witt goes online: In her new column
in the Brazilian online magazine publish news, the head of Literarische Agentur Mertin tells anecdotes of her busy life trying to unite
editors and authors.
You can read the whole column here:
This year’s Best Translated Book Award Fiction Longlist
includes Joseph Walser's Machine by Gonçalo
M. Tavares, translated from the Portuguese by Rhett McNeil (Dalkey Archive Press). Also on the list are Herta Müller, Clarice Lispector, Michel
Houellebecq, Andrés Neumann and Enrique Vila-Matas, among others. The finalists will be announced on
April 10.
The film based on Diego Paszkowski’s
award-winning novel Tesis sobre un homicidio (“Thesis about a Homicide”), has by
now had a
record of almost 900.000 spectators while the book is already hitting the bestseller list!
Starring the famous Argentinean actor Ricardo Darín, this captivating thriller will also be
shown in Germany, France, Spain, Latin America,
South Korea, Turkey and Brazil, while other deals are still in the make.
The magazine Radar
from Página/12
called it a cunning
movie about a dark obsession which immediately enthralls
the audience.
Have a look at the trailer: www.youtube.com
The prestigious German magazine Brigitte Woman, a monthly
magazine with a print run of 230.000 copies, features a four-page report about bestselling author Claudia Piñeiro and
her latest novel Betibú this month: A captivating and entertaining novel whose
protagonist has quite a bit in common with its author, above all the courage to
question her own apparently idyllic world. Betibú
isn’t just another whodunnit but focuses on the
background of the crime.
José Saramago’s novel Levantado do chão
(“Raised from the Ground”) has been included in Oprah Winfrey’s much chased-after
list of 16 Must-Read Books for January 2013!
Also on the list are Tracy Chevalier and Jojo Moyes.
Aprender
a Rezar na
Era da Técnica (“Learning to Pray in the Age of Technology”) by Gonçalo
M. Tavares has been nominated for the renowned Dutch Europese Literatuurprijs. The award, now in its third
year, consists of € 10.000 for the author of
the best translated book and € 2.500 for the translator. The winner will be
announced in September. Also on the longlist are Julia Franck, Ian McEwan and Hilary Mantel,
among others.
Luis Sepúlveda's latest book Historia de Mix,
de Max, y de Mex ("The Story of Mix, of
Max, and of Mex") is second on the bestselling list
in Italy since its launching in mid-November, having sold nearly 170,000
copies.
The film based on Diego Paszkowski’s
award-winning novel Tesis sobre un
homicidio (“Thesis about a Homicide”), has
by now had a
record of over 700.000 spectators!
Starring the famous Argentinean actor Ricardo Darín, this captivating thriller will also
be shown in Germany, Turkey and Brazil, while
other deals are still in the make.
The magazine Radar
from Página/12
called it a cunning
movie about a dark obsession which immediately enthralls
the audience.
Have a look at the trailer: www.youtube.com
Nobel laureate José Saramago's novel Levantado do chão
("Raised from the Ground") has finally been translated into English and French
- and received the highest praise from
renowned voices all over the world!
Saramago's truth-telling arises from a rare combination
of intelligence, fierce artistic courage and intense human tenderness.
Ursula K. Le Guin in The Guardian
This book is a chant. Listen to Saramago and this particular language of his, magnificent
and authentic.
L'Express
Saramago himself was “raised from the ground” and
his intimate, particular knowledge of peasant life is one of several reasons
the novel transcends propaganda, by a long shot.
The New York Times
You can take a look at the complete articles here:
The English world rights for renowned Mozambican
author Mia Couto’s latest
novel A
confissão da leoa
(“The Lioness’s Confession”) have been sold to Farrar, Straus & Giroux in
the US. In France, this captivating novel
based on true facts will be published by Métailié.
The prestigious Portuguese magazine Ípsilon
has included the outstanding novels Teoria geral do esquecimento (“A General Theory of Oblivion”) by
José Eduardo Agualusa and
Os transparentes ("The Transparent Ones")
by Ondjaki
among its list of Best Books 2012!
The list also features other famous writers like Herta Müller and Ian McEwan.
João
Paulo Cuenca is among the 15 semi-finalists of Venice's Biennale College Filmlab! The teams behind the 15 projects will
each participate in a 10-day workshop next month, after which up to three finalists will be paired with established
industry professionals to produce a film.
For more information, have a look at: www.hollywoodreporter.com
On 16 November 2012, José Saramago would have been 90 years.
He is present in our hearts and in his books. For his readers all over the world.
The nominations for the highly renowned 2013 International IMPAC Dublin award have just
been released: They include the much-praised novels Rakushisha (“Hut of Fallen Persimmons”) by Adriana Lisboa, Aprender a rezar na Era da Técnica
(“Learning to Pray in the Age of Technology”) by Gonçalo
M. Tavares and The Warsaw
Anagrams by Richard Zimler. Also among the nominees are Julian Barnes,
Umberto Eco, T.C. Boyle, Michel Houllebeqc, Judith
Hermann, Haruki Murakami and Siri
Hustvedt.
The Angolan author Ondjaki
will be presenting his new novel Os transparentes in Frankfurt
on Friday, 9 November 2012, at 20 hs at the Portuguese
Bookshop Buchhandlung TFM, Große
Seestrasse 47. The reading will be in Portuguese and
German together with the translator Michael Kegler.
Also, Ondjaki
is going to participate in the Festival
Berlinda (Festival of Portuguese
Language and Culture) in Berlin:
6 November 2012 at 19 hs
Reading in Portuguese and German, Moderation: Michael Kegler
Embassy of Brazil, Wallstrasse
57, Berlin
8 November 2012 at 19 hs
Presentation of the film directed by Ondjaki Oxalá cresçam pitangas
(Angola, 2007)
Embassy of Brazil, Wallstrasse
57, Berlin
Once more, Gonçalo
M. Tavares, one of the greatest writers of our time, is making
headlines!
After being reviewed in Le
Monde, now The
New Yorker is praising his award-winning novel Jerusalém
to the skies:
[Gonçalo M.
Tavares] is a writer who is unlike any you’ve read before. He has a gift—like Flann O’Brien or Kafka or Beckett—for revealing the ways in
which logic can be as faithful a servant of madness as of reason. His books may
be bleak and unnerving, but they are, for this reason, exhilarating in the way
that only the work of a powerfully original artist can be.
Mark O'Conell, The New Yorker
Héctor
Abad’s book El olvido
que seremos (“Oblivion,
A Memoir”, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2012) is the winner of the 2012 WOLA-Duke
Human Rights Book Award. The judges called Abad’s book “deeply
moving,” “beautiful,” and “original”, stating that it offers us something new and challenging,
something surprising and hard. The ceremony will be held on 28 November.
Dulce Maria Cardoso
has been awarded the insignia of the Order of Arts and Letters of
France by the French Ministry of Culture, one of the most highly
regarded commendations in France, acknowledging the author’s outstanding
writing. Among others, this prize has so far been given to António
Lobo Antunes and Agustina Bessa-Luís.
The Colombian author and director Andrés Burgos
has been awarded the Audience Award of the 21st Latin American Festival of
Biarritz 2012 for his film Sofía
y el terco (“Sofía
and the Blockhead”), based on the homonymous book written by Burgos himself.
The author is one of the 25 Best Kept Secrets revealed at the
Guadalajara/Mexico Book Fair in 2011.
Lídia
Jorge and Dulce
Maria Cardoso have just been shortlisted
for the prestigious Prémio Fernando Namora,
together with three other renowned writers. The winner will be announced on 4 November. Last year, it was awarded to Gonçalo
M. Tavares.
The prestigious French newspaper Le Monde has published an enthusiastic
full-page review of Uma Viagem à Índia (“A Voyage to India”) by multiple award winning
author Gonçalo
M. Tavares: With great beauty and skill, Tavares narrates a fantastic
story. One of the most striking books in recent European
literature. This title has just been nominated for the prestigious Prix Médicis étranger. Among
the nominees are also António Lobo Antunes and Alejandro Zambra. The
shortlist will be announced on 30 October.
The
Guardian has just published an article about Zukiswa Wanner's top five African writers, enthusiastically praising
Angolan writer Ondjaki,
one of the most promising young Portuguese-language writers in Africa: Ondjaki's writing and storylines are deceptively simple but highly
entertaining. One of the most prolific writers I know.
Multiple award winning author Gonçalo
M. Tavares has written an insightful article for the prestigious
German newspaper DIE ZEIT on his views on Germany in times of the crisis of
the Euro. Among the contributors are also John Banville,
Roberto Saviano and Antonio Muñoz Molina.
The movie based
on the book Tuya
(”All Yours”) by Argentinean bestselling author Claudia Piñeiro has been selected for the 1. Forum of European-Latin American Coproduction, among sixteen
other projects. The forum
will be taking place on September 27 and 28
at the Festival
of San Sebastian.
We are delighted to announce that our Brazilian author
João
Paulo Cuenca, together with Vanessa Barbara, has been selected for the very
first ever issue Best of Young Brazilian Novelists of the prestigious
literary magazine Granta, which "introduced the stars
of the future before they become household names", according to Granta.
John Freeman, the Granta editor, said:
I’m very pleased about this Brazilian list, released
in the year of Jorge Amado’s centenary, as Brazil’s economic and cultural
influence is growing. Here are his vibrant offspring, many of them appearing in
English for the first time, proof that one of the great pleasures of reading is
finding the unexpected, the voices we didn’t even know we needed so much.
The list consists of 20 young Brazilian writers. For more information
please visit:
ww.granta.com/New-Writing/Best-of-Young-Brazilian-Novelists
The Brazilian author José Roberto Torero
has won the Crescer Prize 2012 for the 30 Best Children’s Books of the Year with Branca de neve e as sete versões („Snow White and the Seven Paths“). The book
is part of the Fable Factory collection, the first book of which, Chapeuzinhos Coloridos („Little
Coloured Riding Hoods“) has already sold over 60.000 copies.
revistacrescer.globo.com
On 3 July at 4:30 p.m. British time, Marcelo Figueras’ bestselling novel Kamchatka
will feature on BBC
Radio 4’s A Good Read programme. The
presenter Harriet Gilbert himself has chosen the book for his show, in which each
week, two guests discuss their favourite book. Don’t miss it!
Peter Grandbois has won the
Gold Medal
for Foreword Magazine's Book of the Year Awards with his moving and
beautifully written novel Nahoonkara. Set in nineteenth-century Wisconsin
and Colorado, Nahoonkara
follows the lives of three brothers striving to re-create themselves.
Once again, our bestselling author Claudia Piñeiro is hitting the headlines! This time,
the highly acclaimed Spanish author Rosa Montero says about Claudia’s latest novel "Betibú" in the prestigious Spanish newspaper
El País: So much venom below such a smooth surface. Piñeiro demonstrates an extraordinary narrative skill,
keeping the reader hooked until the very last page.
You can read the whole article here: cultura.elpais.com
The multiple award winning author Gonçalo
M. Tavares is going on a bilingual reading tour in Germany to present his novel Jerusalém
(“Die Versehrten”), which has recently been
launched by the German publishing house DVA:
Tuesday,
12 June at 18 hs in Berlin, Unter den Linden
78
Wednesday, 13 June at 19:30 hs
in Frankfurt,
Hasengasse 4
Thursday, 14 June at 18:00 hs
in Heidelberg, Plöck
57A
For more detailed information, please have a look at:
tfmonline.wordpress.com/goncalo-m-tavares-liest-in-frankfurt
In Cologne, Rostock and
Hamburg, Ondjaki
read from his acclaimed novel Bom
dia camaradas
(“Good Morning, Comrades”), which has already been translated into German,
English, Spanish, Italian, French and Swedish.
In the course of his reading
tour, the Angolan author created a debate at
Cologne University about environmental issues
in the Portuguese-speaking countries.
Reynaldo Sietecase has won the
prestigious Martín
Fierro Award for Best Journalistic Work in
Radio del Plata. The author of the novels ¿A cuántos hay que
matar? (“How many Should
Be Killed?”) and Un crimen argentino (“An
Argentine Crime”) was very candid, stating that the ethic compromise lies in
telling what happens.
Rogelio Guedea’s
enthralling novel 41
has won the Premio Interamericano de Novela Carlos Montemayor 2012.
The award distinguishes the best novel on the whole continent that has been published
between 2010 and 2011.
Adriana Lisboa’s novel Azul-Corvo (“Crow Blue”) has just been sold to Bloomsbury in the UK.
This unusual road-story is already availabe in the
Spanish translation and will soon be published in Portugal and France.
Teresa
Ruiz Rosas has been shortlisted for
the Premio Copé, the
most prestigious award in Perú, with her most recent
novel Nada que declarer
(“Nothing to Declare”).
Gonçalo
M. Tavares’ award-winning novel Jerusalém
has just been launched in Germany by the
prestigious publishing house DVA.
For more information or reading a German extract, see
this page: http://www.perlentaucher.de
The famous Argentinean actor Ricardo Darín will be starring in the film based on Diego Paszkowski’s novel
Tesis sobre un homicidio (“Thesis about a Homicide“),
produced by BD Cine and Haddock Films.
After reading Richard Zimler's novel The Seventh Gate,
the renowned Argentinean author Alberto Manguel said it was not only a superb
thriller but an intelligent and moving novel about the heartbreaking human
condition. And the prestigious Publishers Weekly
stated: Zimler surpasses himself with this epic while La Repubblica called The Warsaw Anagrams a novel of great simplicity and perspicacity.
Mia Couto, one of the the most prominent writers
in Portuguese-speaking Africa, will be launching his new novel in May 2012: A confissão
da leoa (“The Lioness’s Confession”) tells
the captivating story of the hunter Arcanjo, who is
sent to an African village haunted by man-eating lions and slowly discovers its
darkest secrets.
José Eduardo Agualusa, winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2007, is publishing
his latest
novel this Spring: Teoria geral do esquecimento (“A General Theory of Oblivion”)
tells the true story of a Portuguese woman who, horrified by the ongoing events
of the Angolan War of Independence in 1975, bricks herself into her apartment
in Luanda for almost thirty years.
Bestselling author of “City of God” Paulo Lins is about to launch his long-awaited new
novel: Desde
que o samba é samba (“Ever Since Samba Has
Been Samba“) depicts a colourful evolution of what
was to become samba as it is known today, starring a multitude of vividly
painted characters in 1920s Rio de Janeiro.
The thriller An Enemy, based on José Saramago‘s novel O homem duplicado (“The
Double”), will probably be starring the famous American actor Jake Gyllenhaal. The film
will be directed by
Denis Villeneuve, who was recently
nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.
Beatriz Bracher, considered one of Brazil’s outstanding contemporary
voices, has been invited
to read from her novel Antonio in
various German
cities in March. In Frankfurt she continues the BrasiLesen series that already starred Leticia Wierzchowski, Adriana Lisboa and Santiago
Nazarian, among others.
The Heritage Film Project has made a documentary
about Brazilian rising star Adriana Lisboa where among other things she talks
about her inspiration for her latest novel Azul-Corvo (“Crow-Blue”), which has already been
translated into French and Spanish.
The Spanish edition
of Nobel laureate José Saramago’s novel Claraboia (“Skylight”), unedited until now, was
presented in Madrid on 1 March.
blogs.elpais.com/papeles-perdidos/
The most important Spanish TV-programme TVE invited bestselling Argentinean author Claudia Piñeiro to an interview
during the main news where her novels Las viudas de los jueves
(“Thursday Night Widows”) and Betibú
were presented. Las viudas de los jueves have sold more than 250.000 copies in Spanish so far.
The award-winning author Gonçalo
M. Tavares has just been given the Prémio Literário Fundação Inês de Castro for his novel Uma Viagem à Índia (“A
Voyage to India”). Among its former winners is Hélia Correia.
The grande dame of
Portuguese literature, Lídia Jorge, gets her own exposition
in Paris: From 28 January to 10 March 2012, a selection of documents
and objects related to her work will be displayed in the Cité
Internationale Univesitaire
de Paris, showing us more of the highly regarded author's life.
http://casaculturaportugal.blogspot.com
The readers of the popular Spanish newspaper 20minutos
voted Fenómenos de circo by Ana Maria Shua among the best
books of the year 2011!
The award-winning novel Jerusalém
by the highly regarded Portuguese author Gonçalo
M. Tavares will be launched by the German publishing house DVA in Spring 2012.
Rising Brazilian star author Marcelo Ferroni’s debut
novel Método
prático da Guerrilha
(“A Practical Guide to Guerrilla Warfare “) is going to be published by Suhrkamp in Autumn 2012.
An English excerpt of Rui
Zink’s O destino
turístico (“The Tourist Destination”) will
appear in the prestigious volume "Best European
Fiction 2012" published by Dalkey Archive,
next to authors like Clemens Meyer (Germany), Marie Darrieussecq
(France), Zsófia Bán
(Hungary) and Lee Rourke (UK).
The bestselling novel O vendedor de passados
(“The Book of Chameleons”) by José Eduardo Agualusa is about to be adapted for the
movies by the prestigious director Lula Buarque de Hollanda with a budget of 2,2
million euro. The film will be released at the end of 2012.
We are happy to announce that Sinfonia
em branco (“Symphony
in White”) by the renowned writer Adriana Lisboa will be published by Aufbau Verlag in Germany as
leading title in Autumn 2013.
Furthermore, the
award-winning debut novel Os Malaquias (“The malaquias”) by the young Brazilian author Andréa del Fuego will be launched as leading title by
the prestigious German publishing house Hanser in 2013 and by Editorial Edhasa in
Spanish language.
Gonçalo
M. Tavares was placed second in this
year’s prestigious Prémio Portugal Telecom de Literatura
with his novel Uma
Viagem à Índia (“A
Voyage to India”), receiving 14.600 Euro. The highly acclaimed author already won
the award in 2007. Marina Colasanti was placed third with her memoir Minha guerra
alheia (“My Foreign
War”).
The young Brazilian author Andréa del Fuego has
been awarded unanimously the prestigious Prémio José Saramago 2011 for her
debut novel Os Malaquias (“The Malaquias”): Andréa del Fuego offers us a read that won’t leave anyone
untouched. Os Malaquias is
harsh, poetic, authentic.
The prize consists of 25.000 Euro and is one of the most important awards of
the Portuguese language.