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.