RECENT PORTUGUESE PUBLICATIONS
BULLETIN 55
February
2007
PART
XIX:
Children's
Books
See also
item 10.
196.
TAVARES, Gonçalo M. O Senhor
Walser. Rachel Caiano,
illus. Lisbon: Caminho, 2006. Cadernos de Gonçalo M.
Tavares, 21. 8°, publ. illus. bds. 38 pp., (4 ll.), illus.
ISBN: 972-21-1826-9. $22.00
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.