RECENT PORTUGUESE PUBLICATIONS
BULLETIN 52
July
2006
PART
XXI:
Children's
Books
See also
items 173, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202 & 284.
339.
AGUALUSA, José Eduardo. A girafa
que comia estrelas. Henrique
Cayatte, illus. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2005. Lge. 4° (24.3 x
22.65 cm.), publ. illus. bds. (14 ll.), profusely illus. in
color. ISBN: 972-20-2942-8. $22.00
The
author's O vendedor
de passados, billed as a
novel full of ferocious satire depicted with good humor,
reflecting current Angolan society, was first published
April 2004; the third edition appeared in October of the
same year. The publisher claimed that over 15,000 copies
were printed. José Eduardo Agualusa [Alves da Cunha], a
native of Huambo (b. 1960), has resided in Luanda, Rio de
Janeiro, and Lisbon, where he was working as a journalist
until fairly recently. He has previously published
collections of short stories, novels, a novella, and - in
collaboration with his fellow journalist Fernando Semedo
and photographer Elza Rocha - a work of investigative
reporting on the African community of Lisbon,
Lisboa
Africana (1993), as well
as a biographical novel about Lidia do Carmo Ferreira, the
Angolan poet and historian who disappeared mysteriously in
Luanda in 1992. His novel Nação
crioula (1997), about a
secret love between the Portuguese adventurer Carlos
Fradique Mendes (whose correspondence was collected by Eça
de Queiroz), and Ana Olímpia de Caminha, born a slave, who
became one of the wealthiest and most powerful people in
Angola, was awarded the Grande Prémio Literário RTP. In
2002 he published his novel O ano em
que Zumbi tomou o rio.
Catálogo de
sombras, first
published in October of 2003, appeared in a third edition
that December. His books have been translated into several
European languages. See Manuela R.M. Augusto in
Biblos,
I, 84-5.
340.
BOCAGE, [Manuel Maria l'Hedoux de Barbosa du
(1765-1805)]. Fábulas de
Bocage. José Jorge
Letria, ed. André Letria, illus. Porto: Ambar, 2005.
Colecção Grandes Clássicos. Oblong folio (24.3 x 30.4 cm.),
publ. cloth with color illus. tipped on to front cover. 41
pp., profusely illus. in color. ISBN: 972-43-0910-X. $30.00
Barbosa
du Bocage (1765-1805), an accomplished Arcadian poet (known
as Amano Sadino) with strong romantic tendencies, wrote a
great deal of occasional verse. Bell thought he was capable
of much greater things. The poet was an infantry soldier,
but deserted at Damão and spent some time wandering through
China, Macao and Goa before returning to Portugal. Tried
and imprisoned on the basis of the anti-monarchical and
anti-Catholic tone of his poems, when he was released he
spent the rest of his life mostly doing translations, at
which he was quite skilled. His work has always remained in
print, though often in questionable editions. Always
popular, Bocage has been gaining in the esteem of critics.
José
Jorge Letria'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), was set
around the assassination of Sidónio Pais at the Rossio
Station in Lisbon, December 1918. From January 1994 until
January 2002 Letria was Vereador da Cultura for the Câmara
Municipal de Cascais. André Letria, his son, is a
professional illustrator.
341.
FERRO, Rita. As caras da
mãe. Luís Leal,
illus. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2006. Lge. 4° (23.8 x 22.6
cm.), publ. illus. bds. (18 ll.), profusely illus. in
color. ISBN: 972-20-3075-2. $25.00
The
author is a best-selling novelist.
342.
GOMES, Luísa Costa. A galinha
que cantava ópera, e outras histórias de
animais. Pierre Pratt,
illus. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2005. Lge. 4° (24.3 x 22.6
cm.), publ. illus. bds. (14 ll.), profusely illus. in
color. ISBN: 972-20-3044-2. $22.00
The
author (b. Lisbon, 1954) has published a number of volumes
of short stories, novels, and plays. Olhos
verdes (1994) was
awarded the Prémio Máxima de Literatura. Among her other
works are Vida de
Ramón (1991), an
historical novel based on the life of Ramón Lull,
and Nunca nada
de ninguém (1991). One of
her volumes of plays, Ubardo / A
Minha Austrália (1983) won the
Prémio Eça de Queiroz / Teatro do Município de Lisboa. Of
her various works of fiction, O pequeno
mundo, a second
edition of which was published 1988, won the Prémio Dom
Dinis da Fundação da Casa de Mateus.
343.
LETRIA, José Jorge. O amor de
Pedro e Inês. Raffaello
Bergonse, illus. Porto: Ambar, 2005. Colecção Grandes
Clássicos. Oblong folio (24.3 x 30.4 cm.), publ. cloth with
color illus. tipped on to front cover. 41 pp., profusely
illus. in color. ISBN: 972-43-1006-X. $30.00
344.
LOBO ANTUNES, António. A história
do hidroavião. Vitorino,
illus. 3rd ed. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2005. Sm. folio (26.8 x
19.7 cm.), publ. illus. bds. 29, (1) pp., profusely illus.
in color. ISBN: 972-20-2928-2. $25.00
First
published by Contexto in 1994. The second edition was
published by Ulmeiro in 1998. This third edition appears to
have a somewhat different format. The physician Lobo
Antunes, born Lisbon, 1942, is considered by some to be
Portugal's greatest living writer of fiction. See Maria
Nazaré Gomes dos Santos in Machado, ed.,
Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 38-40.
345.
MADEIRA, Henrique. As
sentenças do gafanhoto saltitão: teatro
infanto-juvenil. Lisbon:
Instituto Piaget, 2005. Literatura Infantil, 23. 8°, orig.
illus. wrps. 88 pp., (1 l. adv.). ISBN: 972-771-820-5.
$20.00
The
author's volume of poetry, Barlaventos
(2000), was
awarded First Literary Prize by the Luso-American Education
foundation, University of California, Sacramento. He has
published at least ten other volumes, several of which have
been received literary awards, as well as several volumes
of juvenile literature. He was editor of
Peregrinação, a review of
arts and letters directed at the Portuguese diaspora, as
well as subdirector of Sílex,
a review of letters and arts, and editor of the literary
review Sol
XXI.
346.
MADEIRA, Henrique. O príncipe
da Tessália: teatro infanto-juvenil.
Lisbon:
Instituto Piaget, 2005. Literatura Infantil, 24. 8°, orig.
illus. wrps. 69 pp., (1 l. adv.). ISBN: 972-771-821-3.
$20.00
347.
RODRIGUES, Urbano Tavares. O cabalo da
noite. Raffaello
Bergonse, illus. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2006. Sm. folio (26.8
x 19.7 cm.), publ. illus. bds. 28 pp., profusely illus. in
color. ISBN: 972-20-3042-6. $25.00
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.
348.
TAVARES, Gonçalo M. O Senhor
Calvino. Rachel Caiano,
illus. Lisbon: Caminho, 2005. Cadernos de Gonçalo M.
Tavares, 18. 8°, publ. illus. bds. 71 pp., (4 ll.), illus.
ISBN: 972-21-1760-2. $25.00
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.
349.
VALE, Fernando, ed. Histórias
portuguesas e cabo-verdianas para as crianças.
Dorindo
Carvalho, illus. Lisbon: Instituto Piaget, 2005. Literatura
Infantil, 20. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 135 pp., (1 l. adv.),
illus. in color. ISBN: 972-771-765-9. $28.00
350.
VALE, Fernando, ed. Histórias
portuguesas e São-tomenses para as crianças.
Dorindo
Carvalho, illus. Lisbon: Instituto Piaget, 2005. Literatura
Infantil, 22. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 123 pp., (1 l. adv.),
illus. in color. ISBN: 972-771-781-0. $22.00
351.
VALE, Fernando, ed. Histórias
portuguesas e timorenses para crianças.
Dorindo
Carvalho, illus. Lisbon: Instituto Piaget, 2005. Literatura
Infantil, 25. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 107pp., (1 l. adv.),
numerous illus. in color. ISBN: 972-771-829-9. $30.00
352.
VALE, Fernando, Ana Maria Martinho, and Susana Rebocho,
eds. Histórias
portuguesas e Guineenses para as crianças.
Dorindo
Carvalho, illus. Lisbon: Instituto Piaget, 2006. Literatura
Infantil, 26. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 99 pp., (1 l. adv.),
illus. in color. ISBN: 972-771-852-3. $22.00
353.
VALE, Fernando, and Lourenço do Rosário, eds.
Histórias
portuguesas e moçambicanas para as crianças.
Dorindo
Carvalho, illus. Lisbon: Instituto Piaget, 2005. Literatura
Infantil, 21. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 111 pp., (1 l. adv.),
illus. in color. ISBN: 972-771-781-0. $22.00
354.
VALE, Fernando, and Walcyr Monteiro, eds.
Histórias
portuguesas e brasileiras para as crianças.
Dorindo
Carvalho, illus. Lisbon: Instituto Piaget, 2003. Literatura
Infantil, 15. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 109 pp., (1 l. adv.),
illus. in color. ISBN: 972-771-636-9. $25.00
355.
ZANATTI, Ana. O povo-luz
e os homens-sombra: o segredo da Romã.
Carla Nazareth,
illus. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2006. Sm. folio (26.8 x 19.7
cm.), publ. illus. bds. 30 pp., (2 ll.), profusely illus.
in color. ISBN: 972-20-3115-5. $25.00
The
author was born in Lisbon in 1949. An actress awarded
prizes on diverse occasions for her work, she has written
two novels. Os sinais
do medo, her first,
appeared in 2002 and went through five editions.