RECENT PORTUGUESE PUBLICATIONS
BULLETIN 51
April
2006
PART XX:
Children's
Books
232.
LOURENÇO, Frederico. A Odisseia
de Homero adaptada para jovens. Richard de
Luchi, illus. Lisbon: Cotovia, 2005. 8°, orig. illus. wrps.
328 pp., (2 ll.), illus., double page map in text. ISBN:
972-795-146-5. $35.00
Lourenço's
recent scholarly translation of Homer's Odyssey
has
been acclaimed by specialists and critics. Here he has
adapted the work into prose for juvenile readers. Born in
Lisbon in 1963, Frederico Lourenço spent his childhood in
Oxford. Since 1990 he has been a member of the corpo
docente of the Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa.
He has translated Hipólito
and
Ion,
and has published literary criticism in the reviews
Journal of
Hellenic Studies,
Classical
Quarterly,
Euphrosyne,
Humanitas,
and Colóquio-Letras,
as well as collaborating in the newspapers
Independente,
Expresso,
and Público.
The author's first three works of fiction consist of a
trilogy of novels, based to a great extent on his interests
in the classics and Camões. His first two "romances" in the
series, Pode um
desejo imenso and
O curso das
estrelas, were followed
by À beira do
mundo.