RECENT PORTUGUESE PUBLICATIONS
BULLETIN 50

February 2006

 
PART XX:

Children's Books

 
See also items 152 & 169.

174. MANGAS, Francisco Duarte. O gato Karl. Manuela Bacelar, illus. Lisbon: Caminho, 2005. Folio (30.5 x 20.3 cm.), publ. illus. bds. (32) pp., profusely illus. in color. ISBN: 972-21-1757-2. $20.00

The author's first work of fiction was the novella Diário de Link, originally published in 1993. It won the Prémio Carlos de Oliveira. Born in Rossas, Vieira do Minho, 1960, Mangas has worked as a journalist for the Diário de Notícias, and has published a number of other books, including several volumes of poetry. His novel Geografia do medo (1997) was awarded the Prémio Eixo Atlântico de Narrativa Galaico-Portuguesa.

 
175. TAVARES, Gonçalo M. O Senhor Kraus. Rachel Caiano, illus. Lisbon: Caminho, 2005. Cadernos de Gonçalo M. Tavares, 17. 8°, publ. illus. bds. 116 pp., (4 ll.), illus. ISBN: 972-21-1758-0. $28.00

Born in 1970, the author published his first work, Livro da dança, in 2001. His Senhor Valéry (2002) was awarded the Prémio Branquinho da Fonseca by the weekly newspaper Expresso and the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. Investigações, Novalis, poesia (2002) was awarded the Prémio Revelação de Poesia APE / IPLG, 1999. A volume of poems, O homem ou é tonto ou é mulher (2002), was adapted for the stage at the Teatro Aberto during the "encontro do Novíssimo Teatro de Expressão Portuguesa e Alemã" by the Artistas Unidos n' A Capital. His poetry has appeared in anthologies in Portugal, the Netherlands, and Belgium, as well as in English and American reviews, while his prose has been translated into Italian, Hungarian, Spanish and French. He has also been published in Brazil.