RECENT PORTUGUESE PUBLICATIONS
BULLETIN 49
December
2005
PART
XX:
Children's
Books
192.
CORREIA, Clara Pinto. Vitória,
Vitória. 2nd ed.
Fernanda Fragateiro, illus. Lisbon: Relógio d'Agua, 2005.
Colecção Universos Mágicos, 25. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 55
pp., (3 ll., 1 l. adv., 1 l.), 9 full page color
illustrations. ISBN: 972-708-840-6.
$20.00
First
published by Dom Quixote, 1991. The author, born in Lisbon
in 1960, has published well over 30 titles since 1983,
including fiction, poetry, essays, juvenile literature, and
scientific works addressed to the more intelligent sectors
of the general public. She has done post-doctoral research
in embryology at SUNY Buffalo. See Maria Nazaré Gomes dos
Santos in Machado, ed., Dicionário
de literatura portuguesa, pp. 139-40.
193.
LETRIA, José Jorge. Versos com
gatos. Octavia Monaco,
illus. Lisbon: Horizonte, 2005. Folio (29.9 x 21 cm.),
publ. illus. bds. [14 ll.], profusely illus. in color.
ISBN: 972-24-1395-3.
$20.00
The
author's A dúvida
melódica was awarded the
Prémio de Poesia Cidade da Amadora, 1993. Born in Cascais
in 1951, he has published at least 33 volumes of poetry, a
number of which have also been awarded literary prizes,
including the Prémio Eça de Queiroz-Município de Lisboa
(twice), the Prémio Gulbenkian, and others. See
Machado, Dicionário
de literatura portuguesa, p. 266. From
January 1994 until January 2002 the author was Vereador da
Cultura for the Câmara Municipal de Cascais.
194.
RAWLING, J.K. Harry
Potter e o príncipe misterioso. Lisbon:
Presença, 2005. Estrela do Mar, 83. 8°, orig. illus. wrps.
509 pp., (1 l. adv.) ISBN: 972-23-3445-X.
$35.00