RECENT PORTUGUESE PUBLICATIONS
BULLETIN 52
July
2006
PART
XX:
Fiction
See also
items 9, 53, 173, 175, 348, 349, 350, 351, 352, 353, 354,
376 & 377.
262.
ALMEIDA, Germano. Eva,
romance. Lisbon:
Caminho, 2006. Colecção Outras Margens: Autores
Estrangeiros de Língua Portuguesa, 52. 8°, orig. illus.
wrps. 274 pp. ISBN: 972-21-1789-0. $30.00
The
author, a lawyer practicing in the city of Mindelo at the
time this novel appeared, was born on the island of
Boavista, Cabo Verde, 1945. He has published eight previous
works of fiction. Os dois
irmãos, a novel based
on his official prosecution of "Andre" for fratricide in
1976, is set on the island of Santiago, and
O
testamento do Sr. Nepomuceno da Silva Araújo
(1989) was made
into a film. A família
Trago, first
published 1998, had a second edition in
2000.
263.
ALVES, José Lopes. A morte
desceu à praia. Póvoa Santo
Adrião: Europress, 2005. Europavizinha, Narradores, 27.
Tall 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 229 pp. ISBN: 972-559-262-X.
$28.00
The
author has published almost three dozen essays on politics,
strategy, geopolitics, geo-strategy, and military matters.
He has also published two historical
novels.
264.
AMARAL, Fernando Pinto do. Area de
serviço e outras histórias de amor.
Lisbon:
Dom Quixote, 2006. Autores da Língua Portuguesa. 8°, orig.
illus. wrps. 207 pp. ISBN: 972-20-3114-7. $30.00
The
author has published several volumes of poetry, essays (one
volume of which, O mosaico
fluido: modernidade e pós-modernidade na poesia portuguesa
mais recente, 1991, was
awarded the Prémio do Pen Club), and has translated
Baudelaire (1992, Grande Prémio de Tradução da APT e do Pen
Club) and Paul Verlaine. This is his first work of
narrative fiction.
265.
ARAUJO, Manuel António [Teixeira]. E tão cruel
ter memória! Lisbon:
Colibri, 2006. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 114 pp., (1 l.).
ISBN: 972-772-625-9. $20.00
The
author was awarded the Prémio Nacional de Conto by the
Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, freguesia de Santo António dos
Olivais, 1991. In 2001 he won the Prémio Revelação Ensaio,
awarded by APE. In 2004 he received second prize in the
Consurso Nacional de Poesia Agostinho Gomes. He has
published A
emancipação da literatura infantíl (Difil). His
volume of poetry Ruínas
was
published by Ameroes Perfeitos. He is a regular contributor
to Semanário
transmontano.
266.
BALDAQUE, Lourença. A alegria
do bem e do mal. Porto: Campo
das Letras, 2005. Campo de Estreia, 46. 8°, orig. illus.
wrps. 102 pp. ISBN: 989-610-979-5. $25.00
Lourença
Baldaque was born in Porto, 1979. This is her first book, a
novella about the loves, doubts, fears and adventures of
Carolina, a woman bouncing between happiness and
sorrow.
267.
BESSA-LUIS, Agustina. Conversações
com Dmitri e outras fantasias. Lisbon: Relógio
d'Agua, 1992. Ficção Portuguesa, 18. 8°, orig. illus. wrps.
112 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-708-155-X. $20.00
268.
BRANCO, Pedro de Freitas. O segredo
dos Beatles. Queluz de
Baixo: Presença, 2006. Grandes Narrativas, 319. 8°, orig.
illus. wrps. 96 pp., (2 ll. adv.). ISBN: 972-23-3537-5.
$22.00
Humourous
detective novella by an author of children's books, famous
as the co-author with António Avelar de Pinho of the "Super
4" series, who also has one adult novel to his
credit, A vida em
stereo.
269.
BRANDÃO, Raul [Germano (1867-1930)]. El-Rei
Junot. Lisbon:
Arquimedes Livros, 2006. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. (1 l.), 344
pp., (2 ll.), illus. One of 80 copies. ISBN: 972-8917-17-1.
$30.00
Facsimile
reprint of the Lisbon 1912 first edition. On Raul Brandão,
see Alvaro Manuel Machado, Dicionário
de literatura portuguesa, pp. 79-82.
270.
BRUM, Eduardo [Jorge]. Não chores
pela minha morte, romance. Porto: Ambar,
2006. Colecção Literatura Universal, 16. 8°, orig. illus.
wrps. 252 pp., (1 l. adv.). ISBN: 972-43-1052-3.
$35.00
The author of
this novel, born in 1954, lived five years in the United
States. He is the author of seven previous volumes of
fiction.
271.
BRUNN, Albert von, ed. Carris de
papel: o caminho-de-ferro na literatura
portuguesa. Lisbon:
Caminho, 2006. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 247 pp. ISBN:
972-21-1800-5. $25.00
Brilliantly-conceived
anthology of railway literature, including poetry, fiction,
letters memoirs and essays. Authors represented are Guerra
Junqueiro, Fernando Pessoa, Ruy Cinatti, Luís Veiga Leitão,
Natália Correia, José Viale Moutinho, Eça de Queiroz,
Fialho de Almeida, Vergílio Ferreira, Altino do Tojal,
Alves Redol, Mário Braga, Sérgio Luís de Carvalho,
Alexandre Herculano, Camilo Castelo Branco, António Nobre,
Alberto d'Oliveira, Aquilino Ribeiro, José Rodrigues
Miguéis, Miguel Torga, Vitorino Nemésio, Ruben A., Ilse
Losa, José Jorge Letria, Francisco José Viegas, and
Agustina Bessa-Luís. The editor, born in Switzerland in
1954, has been for some time administrator of the
Portuguese and Brazilian collections at the
Zentralbibliothek, Zürich and professor at the University
of Zürich. He provides an interesting and informative
introduction, which appears not to be a translation, and
never to have been published previously in any language. At
the end of the book is a brief profile of each author (pp.
241-7).
272.
CABRAL, António [Joaquim Magalhães]. O prometeu
agrilhoado hoje, contos. Porto: Campo
das Letras, 2005. Instantes de Leitura, 69. 8°, orig.
illus. wrps. 163 pp., (1 l. adv.). ISBN: 972-610-943-4.
$28.00
The
author's novel, A noiva de
Caná (1995) was
awarded second prize, DN
Jovem, 1995. He also
wrote another novel, Memória
Delta (1990). The
poet, writer of fiction, dramatist and essayist was born in
1931 in Castelo do Douro (? or Castedo, Alijó?), he founded
the literary reviews Setentrião
(1962)
and Tellus
(of
which he was the first editor-in-chief, 1978) and has had
his poems represented in several anthologies. He also
founded the regional monthly Nordeste
Cultural (1980).
See Dicionário
cronológico de autores portugueses, VI,
54-6.
273.
CAMILO [dos Santos], João. Retrato
breve de J.B. 2nd ed.,
revised and augmented. Lisbon: Fenda, 2006. 8°, orig.
illus. wrps. 133 pp., (1 l.), 6 pp. color illus. included
at beginning, included in pagination. ISBN: 989-603-016-2.
$28.00
First
published 1975. The author has been professor of Portuguese
and Brazilian literature at the University of California,
Santa Barbara, and director of the Center for Portuguese
Studies at the same university. He has published one other
volume of fiction, at least ten volumes of poems, at least
one play, several volumes of literary history and
criticism, and has edited collections of
essays.
274.
CARVALHO, Frederico Duarte. Abril
sangrento. Lisbon: Edições
Polvo, 2006. Colecção Polvo - Forma Alguma, 01. 8°, orig.
illus. wrps. 134 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-99793-4-0. $22.00
The
author, born in Porto, 1972, began working as a jounalist
for O primeiro
de Janeiro in 1991. He has
worked in television and has written several controversial
books. The present work is described on the front cover as
a novella; it is very much a political diatribe, bringing
in much about the 25 April 1974 Portuguese revolution, the
independence of Angola, events in the Congo, relations
between Salazar and the USA, the death of Sá Carneiro,
etc., etc., etc.
275.
CARVALHO, Marco. Feijoada no
paraíso: a saga de besouro, o capoeiro.
Preface by
Pires Laranjeira. Porto: Figueirinhas, 2005. Colecção Ocios
do Ofício, 7. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 139 pp., (1 l., 1 l.
adv.). ISBN: 972-661-186-X. $20.00
The
author was born in the bairro of Vila Isabel, Rio de
Janeiro. A humorist of the Pasquim
generation, he
began his professional career in 1975, working for various
publicity firms in his native city. He published cartoons
in Pasquim
and
began to contribute to reviews and newspapers such as
the Jornal do
Brasil,
O
Dia, and
Folha de
São Paulo. This novella
is his first work of fiction.
276.
CARVALHO, Rodrigo Guedes de. Mulher em
Branco, romance. 2nd ed. Lisbon:
Dom Quixote, 2006. Autores da Língua Portuguesa. 8°, orig.
illus. wrps. 295 pp. ISBN: 972-20-2997-5. $30.00
Third
novel by Rodrigo Guedes de Carvalho. This second edition
was published in April 2006; no date is given for the first
edition, but it must have been either earlier in 2006 or
late 2005. The publisher has added a sticker which claims
10,000 copies were sold in the first week (of release of
the first edition?); in any event, this would make the book
a runaway best seller by Portuguese standards. The author
is a journalist, born in Porto, 1963 (according to a
publisher's blurb on the present book; earlier such blurbs
put his date of birth at 1964). His first novel,
Daqui a
nada, originally
published by Contexto, 1992, and reprinted by Dom Quixote
in 2005, was the winner in Portugal of the Prémio Jovens
Talentos, sponsored by the United Nations. His second
novel, A casa
quieta, was published
by Dom Quixote earlier in 2005. In 1997 he received the
Prémio Especial of the Jury for the International Festival
of FIGRA, in France, for investigative reporting about
hospital emergency rooms. His play Os pés no
arame opened in
Lisbon in 2002.
277.
CARVALHO, Sérgio Luís de. Retrato de
S. Jerónimo no seu estúdio. Porto: Campo
das Letras, 2006. Campo da Literatura, 132. 8°, orig.
illus. wrps. 289 pp., (1 l., 1 l. adv.). ISBN:
989-625-031-6. $32.00
The
author of this novel (his fifth), born in Lisbon in 1959,
is a professional historian who has written various volumes
of historical scholarship as well as textbooks. His
Anno Domini
1348 (1990), set in
the fourteenth century, was his first historical novel. It
was awarded the Prémio Literário Ferreira de Castro, 1991.
He has since written at least two other historical
novels, As horas de
Monsaraz (1997), set in
the sixteenth century, and El-Rei
pastor (2000), set in
the thirteenth century. For these see our
Recent
Portuguese Publications Bulletin 26,
items 416 and 417, and our Recent
Portuguese Publications Bulletin 29, at our
website, or the searchable in-print database at the same
website.
278.
CASANOVA, José. Aquela
noite de Natal, romance. Lisbon:
Caminho, 2005. O Campo da Palavra. 8°, orig. illus. wrps.
210 pp. ISBN: 972-21-1736-X. $25.00
The
author has written at least one previous novel,
O caminho
das aves (2002),
published in the same collection.
279.
CASTELO BRANCO, Camílo. Impressão
indelével. Preface by João
Bénard da Costa. Lisbon: Guerra & Paz, 2006. Colecção
Perdidos & Achados. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 124 pp., (2
ll.). ISBN: 989-8014-02-4. $30.00
280.
CASTRO, Fernando Campos de. Com hora
marcada. Porto: Campo
das Letras, 2006. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 199 pp. ISBN:
989-625-055-3. $25.00
This
novella was awarded the Prémio Literário Adolfo Casais
Monteiro. The author, who has previously published three
books, was born in Vila Nova de Gaia, 1952, and is
represented in various poetical anthologies. He has also
written fados and ballads, which have been recorded by
several artists, and has recently devoted himself to the
theater.
281.
CASTRO CALDAS, Miguel. Queres
crescer e depois não cabes na banheira.
Porto: Ambar,
2002. Biblioteca Ambar de Bolso, 2. 8°, orig. illus. wrps.
103 pp. ISBN: 972-43-0559-7. $18.00
The
author was born in Lisbon in 1972. Queres
crescer e depois não cabes na banheira
was
his first "romance". He also published another
novella, As sete
ilhas de Lisboa (2004) in the
same collection.
282.
CLAUDIO, Mário, pseud. [i.e. Rui (Manuel Pinto) Barbot
Costa]. Camilo
Broca, romance. Lisbon: Dom
Quixote, 2006. Autores da Língua Portuguesa. 8°, orig.
illus. wrps. 323 pp. ISBN: 972-20-2976-2. $35.00
The
author, born in Porto, 1941, has published at least 20
volumes of fiction, some of which were awarded literary
prizes, as well as at least 5 volumes of poetry, two each
of theater and criticism, 5 volumes of essays and travels,
a photobiography of António Nobre, and an anthology. He has
also translated William Beckford and Virginia Woolf, and
wrote, under his real name, a book on illiteracy in
Portugal. His work has been translated into English,
Spanish, French, Italian, German, Hungarian, Czech, and
Serbo-Croatian. See Alvaro Manuel Machado in
Dicionário
de literatura portuguesa, pp. 129-31.
283.
COELHO, João Paulo Borges. Crónica da
Rua 513.2, romance. Lisbon:
Caminho, 2006. Colecção Outras Margens: Autores
Estrangeiros de Língua Portuguesa, 49. 8°, orig. illus.
wrps. 333 pp. ISBN: 972-21-1781-5. $35.00
Born
Porto, 1955, the author has acquired Mozambique
nationality. Historian on the faculty of the Universidade
Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, he has dedicated himself to
investigating the colonial and subsequent civil wars in
Mozambique. He has published various academic texts in
Mozambique, Portugal, the United Kingdom, Spain and Canada.
This novel is his fifth work of fiction.
284.
COSTA, Pedro Freire. O mercador
da galáxia. Vasco Avillez,
illus. Lisbon: Bizâncio, 2006. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 167
pp. ISBN: 972-53-0299-0. $25.00
The
author, born Lisbon, 1950. At the time this juvenile
science fiction novella appeared he was professor of
physiology at the Faculdade de Ciências Médicas at the
Universidade Nova de Lisboa. It is his first work of
fiction for younger readers. Another novella by Freire
Costa, for adults, O tempo da
ceia, was published
by Quetzal in its series Graffiti in 1992.
285.
COUTO, Mia. O outro pé
da sereia, romance. Lisbon:
Caminho, 2006. Colecção Outras Margens: Autores
Estrangeiros de Língua Portuguesa, 55. 8°, orig. illus.
wrps. 382 pp. ISBN: 972-21-1795-5. $35.00
Born
in Beira, Mozambique, in 1955, Mia Couto was editor of the
review Tempo
and
of the newspaper Noticias de
Maputo. His first
novel, Terra
somnambula, appeared in
1991; a second, Estórias
abensonhadas, followed in
1994 (5th ed., 2000). A Varanda
do Frangipani (1996, 5th ed.,
2000), has achieved both critical and commercial success.
He has published several collections of short stories, at
least one of which - Vozes
anoitecidas - was
translated into English and published by Heinemann; his
books have been translated as well into Spanish, French,
Italian, German, Swedish, Norwegian, and Dutch. He has also
published a book of poetry. The Prémio Vergílio Ferreira
was awarded to Mia Couto in 1999 for his work as a whole.
286.
DIREITINHO, José Riço. Um sorriso
inesperado. Porto: Asa,
2005. Pequenos Prazeres. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 100 pp., (2
ll.). ISBN: 972-41-4111-X. $20.00
In
these short stories the author returns to the imaginary
Vilarinho dos Loivos, setting for his novel
Breviário
das más inclinações (1994; 2nd ed.,
1997). Born in Lisbon, 1965, between 1985 and 1991 the
Direitinho contributed more than 100 texts to the "DN
Jovem" supplement of the Diário de
notícias. In 1988 he
was awarded the "Literatura na Universidade" prize by the
Associação de Estudantes da Faculdade de Ciências do Porto.
287.
EVORA, Fernando. Como se de
uma fábula se tratasse: uma novela a propósito do
entendimento da vida. Portimão:
Câmara Municipal, 2006. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 70 pp. ISBN:
989-95012-1-2. $15.00
Awarded
honorable mention in competition for the Prémio Manuel
Teixeira Gomes.
288.
FERNANDO, Luís. Antes do
quarto. Horácio Dá
Mesquita, illus. Luanda: Nzila, 2004. Colecção Mambu, 6 8°,
orig. illus. wrps. 222 pp., (1 l. adv.), illus. ISBN:
972-8823-49-5. $28.00
The
author of this novel was born in the village of Tomessa,
Uige, Angola, 1961. He has published at least two other
novels and a collection of essays.
289.
FERNANDO, Luís. João Kyomba
em Nova Iorque. Luanda: Nzila,
2004. Colecção Letras Angolanas, 29. 8°, orig. illus. wrps.
249 pp., (2 ll. adv.). ISBN: 972-8823-61-4. $30.00
290.
FERRO, Rita. Não me
contes o fim, romance. Lisbon: Dom
Quixote, 2005. Autores da Língua Portuguesa. 8°, orig.
illus. wrps. 241 pp. ISBN: 972-20-2948-7. $30.00
Latest
novel of this popular author.
291.
FONSECA, Catarina. O clube das
encalhadas, romance. Lisbon:
Caminho, 2006. O Campo da Palavra. 8°, orig. illus. wrps.
337 pp., (3 ll. adv.). ISBN: 972-21-1769-6. $35.00
The
author of this novel was awarded the Prémio Inasset for
inéditos de literatura infantil, 1988, and has had
published a number of previous works of fiction for adults.
In 1987 she won the Prémio Revelação APE for
A
herança.
292.
FRANÇA, José-Augusto. José e os
outros: Almada e Pessoa, romance dos anos 20.
Queluz de
Baixo: Presença, 2006. Grandes Narrativas, 315. 8°, orig.
illus. wrps. 191 pp., (2 ll. adv.). ISBN: 972-23-3546-4.
$30.00
José-Augusto
França is one of Portugal's leading art and cultural
historians, as well as an important critic, literary
figure, and intellectual. He was a leader in the
introduction of surrealism to Portugal. After a long
absence, he has recently returned to writing fiction; since
2002 he has produced four new novels or novellas and a
collection of stories, in principle to be followed by two
additional novels and a volume containing two novellas. See
Alvaro Manuel Machado, Dicionário
de literatura portuguesa, pp.
201-2; Dicionário
cronológico de autores portugueses, V, 203-6; and
Fernando J.B. Martinho in Biblos,
II, 677-8.
293.
HAYAT, Faíza. O evangelho
segundo a serpente, romance. Lisbon: Dom
Quixote, 2006. Autores da Língua Portuguesa. 8°, orig.
illus. wrps. 168 pp. ISBN: 972-20-3058-2. $25.00
The
author was born in Lisbon, daughter of a Portuguese
Catholic mother and a Muslim father, from Goa. At the time
this novella appeared she was residing in Barcelona,
preparing a doctorate in anthropology. She has written
essays for the review Xis
titled
"Conversas com o espelho", and has written short stories
which have appeared in various Spanish and Portuguese
reviews. This novella is billed by the publisher as her
first "romance".
294.
JORGE, João Miguel Fernandes. A gravata
ensanguentada. Lisbon: Relógio
d'Agua, 2006. Ficção Portuguesa, 79 [according to the
publisher's 2006 catalogue] or Ficção / Arte [as per the
title page]. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 278 pp., (1 l.), illus.
ISBN: 972-708-875-9. $30.00
The
author, who has published more than 30 volumes of poetry,
won the Prémio José Régio de Poesia in 1975 for
Alguns
círculos and the Prémio
Nicola de Poesia in 1985 for Tronos e
dominações. He has also
published at least 7 volumes of essays on art and at least
7 previous volumes of fiction. He has been a regular
contributor to the newspaper Independente
and
co-director of the review As escadas
não tem degraus. See Fernando
Guimarães in Machado, ed. História de
literatura portuguesa, pp.
249-50.
295.
JORGE, Pedro Luís, pseud. [i.e. Jorge Cordeiro].
Sal-gema.
Porto: Ambar,
2004. Colecção Gin Tonic. Sm. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 113
pp. ISBN: 972-43-0813-8. $20.00
The author of
the present novella is a journalist, born in Porto and
residing there at the time this book appeared. He has
published a volume including short stories and one
novella, Memória dos
ventos (Campo das
Letras, 2001); A
proposta (2003),
published in the same collection as the present novella, is
billed as the author's "primeiro romance".
296.
LEONARDO, José. O vizinho
do lado, narrativas breves. Lisbon: Oficina
do Livro, 2005. Ficção. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 220 pp.
ISBN: 989-555-097-9. $26.00
The author was
born in Odemira in 1971. He published his first story in
the Correio
juvenil at age 13, and
later various texts of his were published in the
DNJovem.
At the time these stories were published, he was directing
the Biblioteca Municipal of Rio Maior. This is his second
book; his first was Estórias de
clausura e outros pequenos espaços (2001).
297.
LETRIA, José Jorge. Histórias
do fundo da noite. Porto: Ambar,
2004. Colecção BAB - Biblioteca Ambar de Bolso, 25. 8°,
orig. illus. wrps. 133 pp., (1 l. adv.). ISBN:
972-43-0781-6. $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. His
historical novella, Morro bem,
salvem a pátria (2005),
published in the same collection, was set around the
assassination of Sidónio Pais at the Rossio Station in
Lisbon, December 1918. Fernando Pessoa, Alvaro de Campos,
Cardinal Cerejeira and Salazar enter as characters in the
narrative. The book's title comes from a phrase said to
have been uttered by Sidónio when dying. From January 1994
until January 2002 the author was Vereador da Cultura for
the Câmara Municipal de Cascais.
298.
LETRIA, José Jorge. O homem que
odiava os domingos e outras histórias.
Porto: Ambar,
2003. Colecção BAB - Biblioteca Ambar de Bolso, 14. 8°,
orig. illus. wrps. 111 pp., (1 p. adv.). ISBN:
972-43-0674-7. $20.00
299.
LIMA-REIS, José Pedro. A lenda do
cavalo branco e outras histórias médicas.
Porto: Campo
das Letras, 2006. Instantes de Leitura, 74. 8°, orig.
illus. wrps. 124 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 989-625-025-1. $20.00
Collection
of short stories, based on the author's clinical
experience. He wrote two similar collections, both
published in the same series, O estranho
caso do testículo desautorizado e outras histórias
médicas (2003),
and O estranho
caso da mulher assanhada e outras histórias
médicas (2004). At the
time this book appeared the author, born in Barcelos in
1942, was Chief of Endocrinology at the Hospital de São
João, in Porto, Professor at the Faculdade de Ciências de
Nutrição e Alimentação of the Universidade do Porto, and
vice-president of the Sociedade Portuguesa de Ciências da
Nutrição e Alimentação.
300.
LISPECTOR, Clarice. Laços de
familia. Posfácio by
Carlos Mendes de Sousa. Lisbon: Cotovia, 2006. Curso Breve
de Literatura Brasileira, 11. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 157
pp., (1 l.). One of 1,000 copies. ISBN: 972-795-150-3.
$28.00
Eleventh
number in an interesting new collection, Curso Breve de
Literatura Brasileira, under the editorship of Abel
Baptista Barros, presently projected to sixteen volumes.
Pages [125]-48 consist of a substantial "Posfácio" by
Carlos Mendes de Sousa followed by bio-bibliographical
notes about the work and its author.
301.
MANATA, Silvério. No reino
dos nabos. Zé Penicheiro,
illus. Lisbon: Colibri, 2006. Tribuna Livre. 8°, orig.
illus. wrps. 157 pp, (1 l.), illus. ISBN: 972-772-636-4.
$28.00
Short
stories based on the gastronomy and customs of the author's
native hamlet, situated between the hills of Buçaco and
Caramulo.
302.
MARQUES, Raul Malaquias. Alguns
momentos antes. Porto: Ambar,
2005. Colecção Literatura Universal, 5. 8°, orig. illus.
wrps. 132 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-43-0949-5. $25.00
The
author of these stories was born in Praia da Vieira, 1947.
He has previously published two volumes of poetry, one of
short stories, and three of plays (one for children), as
well as a number of poems and short stories in newspapers
and reviews.
303.
MARTINS, Filipe Leandro. A face de
lado: histórias políticas, romance.
Lisbon:
Caminho, 2006. O Campo da Palavra. 8°, orig. illus. wrps.
335 pp. ISBN: 972-21-1802-1. $35.00
304.
MELO, João. O dia que o
Pato Donald comeu pela primeira vez a Margarida: 18
estórias quase pós-modernas. Lisbon:
Caminho, 2006. Colecção Outras Margens: Autores
Estrangeiros de Língua Portuguesa, 47. 8°, orig. illus.
wrps. 182 pp. ISBN: 972-21-1773-4. $25.00
The
author, born in Luanda, 1955, has had published at least
seven volumes of poetry, two volumes of short stories and
one of essays. A journalist, his first book of
fiction, Imitação de
Sartre & Simone de Beauvoir, first
published in Luanda, 1998, was awarded honorable mention
for the Prémio Sonangol de Literatura, 1996. At the time
this book appeared, he was a deputy to the Angolan National
Assembly.
305.
MELO, João de. O mar de
Madrid, romance. 2nd ed. Lisbon:
Dom Quixote, 2006. Autores da Língua Portuguesa. 8°, orig.
illus. wrps. 292 pp. ISBN: 972-20-2931-2. $35.00
First
published January 2006; this second edition appeared in
March. The author of this novel was born on the island of
São Miguel in the Azores (1949). He took part in the
Glacial
literary
movement in Angra between 1969 and 1973. His novel
Gente feliz
com lágrimas (first
published 1988; 18 editions at last count) won the most
important literary prizes for the year 1989, and has seen,
at last count, 15 editions. Melo has published at least 22
volumes, including 5 novels, 6 collections of stories, 1
volume of poetry, two anthologies, 5 collections of essays,
and a travel book about the Azores.
306.
MENDES, Pedro Rosa. Lenin Oil,
romance. Alain Corbel,
illus. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2006. Autores da Língua
Portuguesa. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 157 pp., (1 l.),
numerous attractive half, full, and double page
illustrations. ISBN: 972-20-3133-3. $25.00
The
author's first book, Baía dos
tigres (1999; 4th ed.,
2000), based on his travels from Angola to Mozambique in
1997, was awarded the Prémio de Ficção do P.E.N. Clube, and
the Prémio de literatura Fernão Mendes Pinto by the Câmara
Municipal de Cascais. It was something of a best seller (by
Portuguese standards; more than 13,000 copies sold at one
point), and was translated and published in 20 countries.
Pedro Rosa Mendes was born in Cernache do Bonjardim, Sertã,
in 1968. Alain Corbel, born 1965 in Brittany, has
illustrated dozens of books in Portugal for authors such as
Lídia Jorge, Luísa Ducla Soares, João Paulo Cotrim, Alvaro
Magalhães, and António Torrado. In 2002 he was awarded the
Prémio Nacional de Ilustração, and in 2005 he won the
Prémio de Melhor Ilustração do Festival da Amadora.
307.
MORAIS, [Manuel Augusto] Fragata de. A prece dos
mal amados. Porto: Campo
das Letras, 2005. Campo da Literatura, 127. 8°, orig.
illus. wrps. 342 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-610-952-3. $38.00
The
author of this novel was born in Uíge, Angola, 1941.
Angolan diplomat and cabinet secretary, he has published
stories and poems in The Netherlands, and is represented in
an anthology of Angolan authors, Angolese
Verhalen (1971). His
books have won literary prizes in
Angola.
308.
MOREIRA, Júlio. Notícias do
labirinto, romance. Porto: Ambar,
2005. Colecção Literatura Universal, 12. 8°, orig. illus.
wrps. 333 pp. ISBN: 972-43-0953-3. $38.00
Born
in Lisbon, 1930, Júlio Moreira has been considered a
vanguard author. His novel, Férias de
verão (Bertrand,
1999), is "without any narrative voice".
A barragem and
O Apóstolo
de si have received
both critical and popular acclaim. Moreira has published
novellas, short stories, poetry and several volumes for
children.
309.
MORGADO, Paulo. Contos de
colarinho branco. 2nd ed. Preface
by Maria José Morgado. Introduction by Sérgio Figueiredo.
Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2005. Colecção Participar. 8°, orig.
illus. wrps. 167 pp. ISBN: 972-20-2954-1. $30.00
First
published in September 2005. This second edition appeared
in November. This volume contains twenty-eight stories
about white-collar crime, said to be entertaining and
sarcastic in tone. Paulo Morgado has worked in consulting,
banking, and "bens de grande consumo". He is the author
of O processo
negocial, and
Cem
argumentos. This appears
to be his first work of fiction.
310.
MOTA, Armor Pires. As vinhas
da memória, contos. Luso: Roble
Azul, 2005. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 125 pp. ISBN:
972-99445-3-9. $25.00
The
author was born in Oliveira do Bairro, 1939. Journalist,
poet and author of fiction, his book Tarrafo
is
said to have been removed from bookstores by the PIDE in
1965. He has written for the Diário de
notícias,Diário
do Norte,Diário
da manhã,
Notícias de
Lourenço Marques, and
O
debate. At the time
this volume appeared he was editor-in-chief of the
Jornal da
Bairrada, and was also
writing for the Jornal de
notícias and
O primeiro
de Janeiro. His volume of
poetry Baga
Baga (1968) was
awarded the Prémio Camilo Pessanha. The present volume is
said to be his 25th book.
311.
MOURÃO, Paulo Reis. O senhor de
fez, e outros. Porto: Ambar,
2002. Colecção Cântico Final, 3. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 142
pp. ISBN: 972-43-0497-3. $25.00
The
author's novella, Os cachos e
as mãos (2005) received
Honorable Mention for the Prémio de Literatura of the Lions
Clube, 2003. Born in Vila Real, 1978, an economist with a
master's degree from the Universidade do Minho, he has
written various books, and has received several prizes in
literary contests held by the Centro Regional de Vila Real.
He has also contributed both to the regional and national
press. O Senhor
de Fez e outros (2001) was
awarded the Prémio Montijo jovem, 2001, for literary works
in prose.
312.
NAVES, Luís. Homens no
fio. Porto: Campo
das Letras, 2006. Campo da Literatura, 130. 8°, orig.
illus. wrps. 79 pp., (1 l., 1 l. adv.). ISBN:
989-625-010-3. $18.00
Luís
Naves was born in Lisbon in 1961. A journalist since 1987,
he has worked for the Diário de
notícias. Prior to this
novella he published two novels.
313.
NORTON, Cristina. A casa do
sal, romance. Lisbon: Dom
Quixote, 2006. Autores da Língua Portuguesa. 8°, orig.
illus. wrps. 162 pp. ISBN: 972-20-3118-X. $25.00
Love
story of Mário, an a native of the Algarve from Tavira
whose family has suffered economic reverses, and his wife,
Irene. The author, a native of Buenos Aires (b. 1948),
began in 1961 to publish stories and poetry in the literary
supplements of various Lisbon journals. Later she settled
in Portugal, studying fine arts and art history, and
adopting Portuguese nationality. Her first novel,
O afinador
de pianos, about a piano
tuner from Madrid whose profession takes him to Galicia at
the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, on to the Lisbon of
Salazar, and later to the Buenos Aires of Juan Peron and
Evita, was published in 1997. In 2002 she published another
work of historical fiction, O segredo
da bastarda (4th ed.,
2003). The principal character of her novella,
O Lázaro do
Porto (2000, 2 eds.),
is João da Foz, later known as Lázaro, bastard son of a
poor baron and a laundress, born during the Napoleonic
invasion of the Iberian Peninsula: the action takes place
during the wars between the absolutist D. Miguel and the
"liberal" D. Pedro I of Brazil (IV of Portugal) on behalf
of his daughter D. Maria II.
314.
NUNES, Rui. O
mensageiro diferido. 2nd ed. Lisbon:
Relógio d'Agua, 2004. Ficção Portuguesa, 73. 8°, orig.
illus. wrps. 100 pp., (1 blank l., 1 l., 2 ll. adv.). ISBN:
972-708-820-1. $25.00
First
published 1981 by Regra do Jogo. The author's
Osculatriz
(1992) was
awarded the Prémio ex aequo in fiction by the Pen Club of
Portugal, 1992. His novella Grito
(1997) was
awarded the Grande Prémio de Romance e Novela APE, 1997.
See Machado, Dicionário
de literatura portuguesa, p. 344.
315.
PAIVA, Vasco. Na outra
margem do tempo. Porto: Campo
das Letras, 2006. Campo da Memória, 16. 8°, orig. illus.
wrps. 127 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-610-784-9. $22.00
Short
pieces, said to be based on true events. The author, a
forestry expert, native of Montisinhos, was 55 years of age
when this volume appeared in April 2006. He became a member
of the Portuguese Communist Party in 1969, and went
underground in 1972, remaining in his clandestine role
until 25 April 1974. He has contributed to a wide variety
of publications; this appears to be his first
book.
316.
PARDAL, Maria João Martins, and Ezequiel Passos
Marinho. A comenda
secreta. Lisbon:
Esquilo, 2005. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 294 pp. ISBN:
972-8605-58-7. $36.00
Historical
novel which, according to a publisher's statement on the
front cover, addresses the question "Que segredos guardam
D. Afonso Henriques e o Mestre Templário Gualdim Pais?".
317.
PAREDES, Margarida. O Tibete de
Africa, romance. Porto: Ambar,
2006. Colecção Literatura Universal, 17. 8°, orig. illus.
wrps. 165 pp., (1 l. adv.). ISBN: 972-43-1039-6. $28.00
The
author of this novella was born in Penedo da Saudade,
Coimbra. In 1974 she abandoned her University studies to
join with the MPLA in the struggle for Angolan
independence. Passing through Brazzaville, she was one of
the first militants coming from the Congo to enter Luanda
after the 25th of April 1974. After independence she quit
the army, working in the Conselho Nacional de Cultura with
the poet António Jacinto. She returned to Portugal in 1981.
This is her first "romance". The narrator is a Portuguese
born in Angola who left as a child, loving the country, and
returned as an adult looking only for business and
investments. The first reaction is negative, but eventually
things change.
318.
PATO, Helena. Saudação,
flausinas, moedas e simones. Porto: Campo
das Letras, 2006. Campo de Estreia, 49. 8°, orig. illus.
wrps. 142 pp. ISBN: 989-625-056-1. $25.00
The
author was born in Mamarrosa, Aveiro, in 1939. An activist
at the Associação da Faculdade de Ciências de Lisboa and
one of the founders of the Movimento Democrático de
Mulheres in the 1960s, she was a political leader of the
CDE from 1969 to 1973. In 1984 she helped found one of the
first teacher's unions in Portugal. This collection of
stories appears to be her first book.
319.
PENNA, Cornélio. A menina
morta. Posfácio by
Roberto Vecchi. Lisbon: Cotovia, 2006. Curso Breve de
Literatura Brasileira, 9. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 557 pp., (1
l.). One of 1,000 copies. ISBN: 972-795-149-X. $50.00
Ninth
number in an interesting new collection, Curso Breve de
Literatura Brasileira, under the editorship of Abel
Baptista Barros, presently projected to sixteen volumes.
Pages [529]-53 consist of a substantial "Posfácio" by
Roberto Vecchi followed by bio-bibliographical notes about
the work and its author.
320.
PEREIRA, Ana Teresa. Histórias
policiais. Lisbon: Relógio
d'Agua, 2006. Crime Imperfeito, 17. 8°, orig. illus. wrps.
250 pp., (1 l., 2 ll. adv.). ISBN: 972-708-887-2. $30.00
The
novellas "A noite dá-me um nome" and "A cidade fantasma"
were published by Editorial Caminho in 1993. They are said
to have been revised by the author for the present edition.
The author of this collection of detective novellas has
published well over 20 books since 1989. Her first,
Matar a
imagem, was awarded
the Prémio Caminho de Literatura Policial, 1989.
321.
PEREIRA, Ana Teresa. O mar de
gelo. Lisbon: Relógio
d'Agua, 2005. Ficção Portuguesa, 77. 8°, orig. illus. wrps.
127 pp., (2 ll., 3 ll. adv.). ISBN: 972-708-864-3.
$28.00
322.
PEREIRA, Ana Teresa. Se eu
morrer antes de acordar. Lisbon: Relógio
d'Agua, 2000. Ficção Portuguesa, 55. 8°, orig. illus. wrps.
184 pp., (3 ll., 1 l. adv.). ISBN: 972-708-581-4. $28.00
323.
QUEIROS, [José Maria] Eça de. Singularidades
de uma rapariga loura de Eça de Queirós, seguido se Cartas
de Fradique Mendes (por causa de outra loura).
Preface by
Maria Filomena Mónica. Lisbon: Guerra & Paz, 2006.
Colecção Perdidos & Achados. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 123
pp., (2 ll.). ISBN: 989-8014-01-6. $30.00
324.
REAL, Miguel. A voz da
terra. 2nd ed.
Matosinhos: Quidnovi, 2005. Quidnovi Literatura Portuguesa.
Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 316 pp., (1 l.). ISBN:
989-554-233-X. $38.00
Historical
novel about the Marquês de Pombal and the 1755 Lisbon
earthquake. First published November 2005; this second
edition appeared in December of the same year. Júlio Telles
Fernandes, a rich Brazilian widower, arrives in Lisbon with
two secret missions: to intercede with the Marquês de
Pombal for the independence of Pernambuco, and to hand over
to the Jewess Violante Dias, cousin of his late wife, a
ring which has been passed down in her family for
generations. The novel depicts two Lisbons: one of
superstition, maritime and imperial, of St. Anthony,
governed by the voice of heaven; the other middle class,
rational and geometric, a consequence of the earthquake,
the city of the Marquês de Pombal. In the old Lisbon one
sees slaves and moors, galegos, "calhandreiras" and
"colarejas", the artifices of the open shop, the workers on
the waterfront, fidalgos, monks and clerics surrounding the
king, paying for English flour, iron and coal and French
cloth with Brazilian gold. In the post-earthquake Lisbon
under the direction of the Marquês de Pombal, one sees
royal officials, magistrates, the new public school
teachers, politicians, and enlightenment intellectuals.
The
author's novel A visão de
Túndalo por Eça de Queirós (2000) was
awarded the Prémio Literário Ler by the Fundação Círculo de
Leitores. He was previously awarded the Prémio de Revelação
APE / IPLB, Ensaio Literário / 1995. Born in Lisbon in
1953, Miguel Real has published a number of works of
literary history and criticism, as well as secondary school
literary manuals, and a novel in which Plato, near death,
confesses to having invented Socrates, using an honored old
slave as his model. He also wrote Memórias de
Branca Dias (2003), a novel
based on the legendary Branca Dias, a matriarch of
sixteenth-century Pernambuco, one of the first female
plantation owners in Brazil.
325.
RIBEIRO, João Ubaldo, Rubem Fonseca, Carlos Drummond de
Andrade, et al. Onze em
compo. . . de cada vez //: ficção brasileira, antologia de
textos sobre o futebol. Preface by
Carlos Daniel. Posfácio by Flávio Moreira da Costa. Porto:
Ambar, 2006. Colecção Novas Direcções, 01. 8°, orig. illus.
wrps. 171 pp. ISBN: 972-43-1119-8. $30.00
In
addition to the authors mentioned above, there are stories
by Luis Fernando Verissimo, Anna Maria Martins, Duílio
Gomes, Sérgio Sant'anna, João Antônio, Flávio Moreira da
Costa, Edla van Steen, Luiz Vilela, Edilberto Coutinho,
Ricardo Ramos, Antônio de Alcântara Machado, and Carlos
Eduardo Novaes.
326.
RODRIGUES, Miguel Urbano. El Canalla
e outras estórias. Porto: Campo
das Letras, 2006. Instantes de Leitura, 74. 8°, orig.
illus. wrps. 211 pp., (2 ll.). ISBN: 989-625-028-6. $30.00
The
author, born in 1925, worked in editorial capacities
for O Estado de
S. Paulo (1957-1974),
Visão
(1970-1974),
and was editor-in-chief of Avante!
from 1974 to
1975. President of the Municipal Assembly of Moura from
1977 to 1978, he was a deputy to the Nacional Parliament
for the Partido Comunista Português from 1990 to 1995. He
also served as a member of the party's political
commission. He has written at least fourteen books,
including fiction, historical subjects, and politics.
327.
RODRIGUES, Urbano Tavares. O eterno
efémero, romance. Lisbon: Dom
Quixote, 2005. Autores da Língua Portuguesa. 8°, orig.
illus. wrps. 140 pp. ISBN: 972-20-3043-4. $22.00
On
the widely-acclaimed and prolific author of fiction,
researcher, essayist, literary critic, professor
Catedrático jubilado at the Faculdade de Letras,
Universidade de Lisboa, and member of the Academia das
Ciências de Lisboa, Urbano Tavares Rodrigues (born Lisbon,
1923), see Machado, Dicionário
de literatura portuguesa, pp. 422-3;
Cristina Robalo Cordeiro in Biblos,
IV, 909-13; Dicionário
cronológico de autores portugueses, V, 296-8.
328.
RUI, Manuel. Estórias de
conversa, contos. Lisbon:
Caminho, 2006. Colecção Outras Margens: Autores
Estrangeiros de Língua Portuguesa, 50. 8°, orig. illus.
wrps. 103 pp. ISBN: 972-21-1780-7. $18.00
The
author of this novel was born in Huambo, Angola (1941). He
studied law in Portugal, and practiced the legal profession
there. Following the independence of Angola, he entered
into the cultural life of his country. Professor of
literature, journalist, participant in radio and cinema,
his prose and poetry have been translated into Spanish,
French, English, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Czech,
Swedish, Finnish, Arabic, and Hebrew. His works
include Regresso
adiado,
Crónica de
um Mujinbo,
1 Morto
& os vivos,
Rioseco,
Da palma da
mão,
Saxafone e
metáfora, and
Um anel na
areia (estória de amor); his best
known work is Quem me
dera ser onda, with a total
of 100,000 copies sold worldwide; it was even published in
a bilingual Portuguese-Umbundu edition.
329.
SAMUEL, Luís. O albatroz
peregrino: o regresso à praia de origem.
Anabela
Monteiro Rodrigues, illus. Carcavelos: Angelorum Novalis,
2005. Literatura da Nova Era. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 158
pp., (1 l.), illus. ISBN: 989-607-027-X. $20.00
330.
SANTOS, José Rodrigues dos. A filha do
capitão, romance. 11th ed.
Lisbon: Gradiva, 2006. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. with
d.j. 634 pp., 2 maps in text. ISBN: 972-662-994-2. $50.00
Novel,
set in France during World War I, first published in
November, 2004. The author, born in Mozambique, 1964, has
published four volumes of essays, and one previous work of
fiction. A journalist, he began his career with Radio Macau
in 1981, and worked for the BBC in London from 1987 to
1990. In 1990 he moved to RTP, and collaborated with CNN
from 1993 to 2002. With a doctorate in Communication
Sciences, Rodrigues dos Santos has taught at the
Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He has been awarded prizes in
journalism twice by the Clube Português de Imprensa and
three times by CNN.
331.
SANTOS, Hugo. A mulher de
Neruda, romance. Lisbon: Dom
Quixote, 2006. Autores da Língua Portuguesa. 8°, orig.
illus. wrps. 117 pp. ISBN: 972-20-3001-9. $22.00
Awarded
the Prémio Albufeira de Literatura, Ficção, 2005. The
author, poet, short shory writer, and novelist, has
received at least 11 literary prizes. Born in Campo Maior,
Alentejo, he has published at least 24 books.
332.
SILVA, Cristina. Bela.
Porto: Ambar,
2005. Colecção Literatura Universal, 10. 8°, orig. illus.
wrps. 174 pp. ISBN: 972-43-0995-9. $30.00
Novella
based on the life of Florbela Espanca, the poet who
committed suicide on 7 December 1930. Florbela de Alma da
Conceição Espanca (1895-1930) is described by Bell as
"unquestionably one of the greatest if not the greatest
Portuguese poetess of all time. Her sonnets are poignant
outpourings of her emotional life, and display her
accomplished art as a sonneteer." For Saraiva and Lopes she
is "uma das mais notáveis personalidades líricas isoladas,
pela intensidade de um transcendido erotismo feminino, sem
precedentes entre nós." She published her first book of
poetry, Livro de
Mágoas, in 1919, and
her second, Livro de
Soror Saüdade, in 1923. By
1974 her Sonetos completos had gone through 14 editions.
See Saraiva & Lopes, História da
literatura portuguesa (1976) p. 1057;
Bell, Oxford Book
of Portuguese Verse p. 338-40 and
374; Conselho Nacional das Mulheres Portugueses,
Exposição
de livros escritos por mulheres p. 135,
Grande
enciclopédia X, 187.
Cristina
Silva, born 1964, has a Ph.D. in educational psychology,
and has published works in her field of specialization both
in Portugal and abroad. Her initial literary work, an
epistolary novel, Mariana,
todas as cartas (2002),
consisted of imaginary letters by Soror Mariana Alcoforado,
at an advanced age, to the Marquis de Chamilly, about her
life when, a as a child of ten, she was shut up in a
convent. Her second work of fiction, the novella
A mulher
transparente, about
present-day domestic violence, was published in 2004.
333.
SOARES, David. Os ossos do
Arco-Iris. Parede: Saída
de Emergência, 2006. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 158 pp., (1
l.), illus. on title page, title page verso, and verso of
final leaf. ISBN: 972-8839-37-5. $28.00
The
author has won prizes for his books of cartoons. His work
has been published in Portugal and France, and according to
a publisher's blurb has been recognized by critics as the
best voice of Portuguese speculative fiction.
334.
TAVARES, Gonçalo M. Agua, cão,
cavalo, cabeça; ficção. Lisbon:
Caminho, 2006. Cadernos de Gonçalo M. Tavares, 20. 8°,
orig. illus. wrps. 91 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-21-1798-X.
$15.00
Born
in 1970, the author published his first work,
Livro da
dança, in 2001. His
novel Jerusalem
(Círculo de
Leitores, 2004; Caminho, 2005) was awarded the Prémio Ler
by the Millenium B.C.P. and the Prémio José Saramago for
2005. 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.
335.
TAVARES, Gonçalo M. Histórias
falsas, estórias. Porto: Campo
das Letras, 2005. Campo da Literatura, 122. Cadernos de
Gonçalo M. Tavares, 16. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 56 pp., (2
ll.). ISBN: 972-610-922-1. $18.00
336.
TRABULO, António, ed. No tempo do
Caparandanda: contos tradicionais angolanos.
Póvoa Santo
Adrião: Europress, 2004. Europavizinha, Narradores, 26.
Tall 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 177 pp., (1 l.). ISBN:
972-559-258-1. $25.00
337.
VENDA, António Manuel. O amor por
entre os dedos. Porto: Ambar,
2005. Colecção Literatura Universal, 11. 8°, orig. illus.
wrps. 173 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-43-0994-0. $30.00
The
author of these short stories has also written a short
novel, Os sonhos e
outras perigosas embirrações (2000), set in
a hamlet, Foz de Zimbrais, in the Algarve, where the death
of a donkey or disappointment in love is considered big
news. The author's novella Os
abençoados fiéis do Senhor Romão (1997) was
awarded the Prémio Literário da Cidade de Almada, 1996. His
work has also won prizes from the Instituto Abel Salazar,
the Centro Nacional de Cultura, and the Sociedade
Portuguesa de Autores. A native of Monchique, Algarve (b.
1968), he has published several other works of short
fiction.
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Graça]. Velhas
estórias. Lisbon:
Caminho, 2006. Colecção Outras Margens: Autores
Estrangeiros de Língua Portuguesa, 51. 8°, orig. illus.
wrps. 203 pp. ISBN: 972-21-1788-2. $28.00
First
published 1974. There have been at least five previous
editions. On the author of these stories, an Angolan
citizen by virtue of his participation in the independence
movement, see Cândido Beirante in Machado, ed.,
Dicionário
de literatura portuguesa, pp.
503-4; Dicionário
cronológico de autores portugueses, VI,
356-7.
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