30 posts in Archives
João Tordo was born in Lisbon in 1975. He is the author of ten books, divided between the novel, the detective story and the essay. He won the José Saramago Literary Prize in 2009, with the novel As Três Vidas, and the Fernando Namora Literary Prize in 2021, with Felicidade. He was also a finalist […]
Richard Zenith’s biography of Pessoa was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2022. Education by Stone: Selected Poems by Brazil’s João Cabral de Melo Neto won the 2006 translation award from the Academy of American Poets. In addition to his voluminous translations of Pessoa’s work and the writings of other Portuguese poets, Zenith’s fiction […]
Catherine Tice has worked at the The New York Review of Books for over two decades as the Associate Publisher. She lives in Brooklyn, and has made slender contributions to the St. Petersburg Review, Le Monde Diplomatique, and most recently, Granta.
Meakin Armstrong is fiction editor of Guernica, a top-ranked literary and political site that’s received acclaim by magazines such as Esquire. He is a writer for Business Insider and a former employee of The New Yorker. His work has appeared in various fiction anthologies, and in Wigleaf, Noö Journal, InDigest, TheAtlantic.com, Time Out New York, and the books New York Calling: From Blackout to […]
Patrícia Portela is a writer and performance maker born in 1974, living between Belgium and Portugal. She studied set and costume design in Lisbon and in Utrecht, film in Ebeltoft, Denmark, and Philosophy in Leuven, Belgium. Since 2003 she has worked on her own performances and installations in collaboration with international artists. She has achieved […]
Rui Zink was born in Lisbon in 1961, where he is now a writer and university lecturer. He was a regular guest on late-night TV discussion programmes and he has become popular as an agent provocateur in Lisbon’s cultural scene. Zink is the author of more than twenty books, including A arte suprema, the first […]
Sally Ashton is the author of Some Odd Afternoon, Her Name Is Juanita, and These Metallic Days. She is Editor-in-Chief of the DMQ Review, an online journal featuring poetry and art. Honors include a fellowship from Arts Council Silicon Valley and a residency at Montalvo Arts Center. She was Poet Laureate of Santa Clara County […]
Josip Novakovich emigrated from Croatia at the age of 20. He has published a novel, April Fool’s Day (in ten languages), three story collections (Infidelities: Stories of War and Lust, Yolk and Salvation and Other Disasters) and three collections of narrative essays as well as two books of practical criticism, including Fiction Writers Workshop. His […]
Rodrigo Garcia Lopes (Londrina, Parana state) is a Brazilian poet, fiction writer, musician, composer, and translator. He has published five collections of poetry, includingVisibilia, (1996), Polivox (2001), Nômada (2004), and Reality Studio (2013). His poems, essays and interviews have been widely published and anthologized, including in Os Cem Melhores Poemas Brasileiros do Século 20 [The […]
In the past few years Lopes’ work has been seen in the U.S. at the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore, at El Museo del Barrio, ApexArt and the America’s Society in New York, at the Contemporary Art Museum in Saint Louis, among other venues. In the same period his work was also seen in France, Germany, […]