RECENT PORTUGUESE PUBLICATIONS BULLETIN 63
August
2008
PART
XX:
Children’s Books
See also item 18.
196.
BAPTISTA-BASTOS [Armando]. A bolsa da
avó palhaça. Mónica Cid,
illus. Lisbon: Oficina do Livro, 2007. Lge. 8°, publ.
illus. bds. 47 pp., (1 l.), color illus. ISBN:
978-989-555-324-2. $30.00
A subtitle,
which appears on the front cover but not on the title page,
reads A infância
revisitada de um grande escritor.
Baptista-Bastos, born in Lisbon, 1934, has published ten
volumes of fiction, the first nine of which have had
multiple editions. His A colina de
cristal (1987; 4 eds.),
was awarded the Prémio Pen Club as well as the Prémio
Cidade de Lisboa. He has also been awarded the Grande
Prémio da Crítica, the Grande Prémio da Crónica da APE, and
the Prémio de Crónica João Carreira Bom. He has published
at least four volumes of essays, and six of journalism
(interviews which appeared in the press, etc.). He began
working as a journalist for O
século at age 19,
later spending 23 years at Diário
popular.
197.
LETRIA, José Jorge. O menino
que se apaixonou por uma guitarra: Carlos
Paredes. José Emídio,
illus. 2nd ed. Porto: Campo das Letras, 2004. Colecção O
Sol e a Lua, 34.Lge. 4° (22.6 x 22.5 cm.), orig. illus.
wrps. 32 pp., (1 l.), profusely illus. in color. ISBN:
972-610-889-6. $30.00
First published
2004. The author's book of poems, Sobre
retratos (2008), was
awarded the Prémio de Poesia Nuno Júdice, 2007, by the
Câmara Municipal de Aveiro. 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 34 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.
198.
TAVARES, Vera. O medonho
composto. Almada: Íman
Edições, 2001. Colecção Livros de Oz, 4. 8°, orig. illus.
wrps. 49 pp., profusely illus. One of 1000 copies. ISBN:
972-8665-07-5. $25.00
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