NEWS
The Fundação Biblioteca Nacional
has announced a new Brazil Literature Translation Grant until 2020. It now consists of
grants ranging from US$ 2.000 to US$ 8.000 and includes reeditions. For more information, please contact us
or the Fundação Biblioteca Nacional:
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 ceremony
will be held in Coimbra on 4 February.
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
As festival
showings of José and Pilar,
Portugal’s entry for the category best foreign-language film at the Oscars,
will take place this month in the US, director Miguel
Gonçalves Mendes has spoken with the New York
Times of his motivations to make a film
about the life of the great Nobel laureate, showing us José Saramago as a human
being.
http://carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.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).
Nicole Witt is invited to talk about Latin American
Literature in translation at the Hay Festival
2012 in Cartagena, Colombia, which will take place from January 26 to 29.
Among
the participants are Argentinean bestselling author Claudia
Piñeiro and
other renowned writers like David Grossman, Carlos Fuentes, Nélida Piñon,
Jonathan Franzen, Evelio Rosero, Felipe González, Janne Teller and Sergio
Pitol.
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.
On 16 November, José Saramago’s
birthday will be
celebrated with the launching of his novel Claraboia (“Skylight”) in Lisbon. Among the participants
will be the Nobel laureate’s wife Pilar del Río, his editor Zeferino
Coelho and renowned writers like Lídia Jorge, Gonçalo M. Tavares
and Baptista-Bastos.
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”).
On 7 November, moderator Maya Jaggi, translator Margaret
Jull Costa and Ali Smith
are going to commemorate the great Nobel
laureate in José Saramago: a celebration in
the Europe House in London, remembering his
genius as both writer and man, his humble upbringing and his way to the top.
In the USA Publishers Weekly has chosen Cain
as one of their top 100 books of 2011.
Nicole Witt has been invited to participate
at this year’s Fórum das Letras in Ouro Preto, Brazil, which will take place from
11 to 15 November 2011. Lídia
Jorge, Cecília
Boal, Arthur Dapieve and Miguel Sanches Neto
will also be present.
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.
The Portuguese language is Guest of Honour at this year's Belgrad Book Fair.
Among others, José E. Agualusa, Lídia Jorge, Pedro Rosa
Mendes, Ondjaki, Pepetela, Gonçalo M. Tavares, Luandino
Vieira and Rui Zink have been invited to share their literature.
The
film José & Pilar,
candidate for the Oscars 2012, will be promoted profusely in New York next week. Also, an event dedicated to the Nobel Laureate will take
place at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).
Pedro Rosa Mendes has
just won the prestigious Prémio PEN Clube narrativa with
his novel Peregrinação de Enmanuel
Jhesus (“The Pilgrimage of Enmanuel
Jhesus”) for his skilful use of the Portuguese
language and his homage to it.
Mia Couto has
unanimously been awarded the renowned Prémio Eduardo Lourenço for broadening the horizons of the
Portuguese language and the Iberian culture. The prize consists of
10.000 Euro and is organised by the Centre for Iberian Studies (CEI).
Gonçalo M. Tavares
is the winner of the distinguished Prémio Literário
Fernando Namora with his novel Uma viagem
à Índia (“A Voyage to India”). The prize consists of
25.000 Euro.
José Eduardo Agualusa has been nominated for the prestigious Prix Courrier
International with Barroco Tropical (“Tropical Baroque”) in the category Best Foreign
Novel. The prize distinguishes those books that best show the human condition
in any region of the world. The winner will be announced on 20 October.
http://www.courrierinternational.com
Brazil has selected the movie Tropa
da Elite 2 (“The Elite Squad 2”)
as its entry for the category Best Foreign Movie
at the Oscar
2012. The winner will be announced on 26 February 2012. Elite da Tropa 1 won the
Golden Bear at the Berlinale 2008.
Gonçalo
M. Tavares and Pedro Rosa Mendes
are among the five finalists for the distinguished Prémio Literário Fernando Namora.
The prize consists of 25.000 Euro and will be handed to the winner on 2
October.
Portugal
selected the film "José and Pilar" as its entry for the
Oscar in
the category foreign-language
film. U.S. and Canada rights of
this co-production by Fernando Meirelles have been sold
to Outsider Pictures. The 84th Academy Awards will be held Feb. 26.
The
Prêmio Moacyr
Scliar de Literatura has been founded in honour of the great
contemporary writer Moacyr Scliar,
who passed away this year.
Consisting
of 64.000 Euro, it will be given alternately to the best books in the
categories poems and short stories.
To
read more, please visit:
Richard Zimler has been deservedly called
an American Umberto Eco by the San Francisco Chronicle:
The Warsaw
Anagrams is equal parts riveting, heartbreaking, inspiring and
intelligent. Also, the Forward gave Zimler the moniker The Jewish Dan Brown.
To
read the whole articles, please visit:
The
latest novel by the award-winning Spanish author Manuel Rivas,
Todo es silencio
("All Is Silence"), is going to be adapted for the movies. Directed by José Luis Cuerda, the
shooting starts in late August. The film will be released in 2012.