Ana Luísa Amaral

Portuguese Guest

(Lisbon, 1956). The author of fifteen books of poetry, including Minha Senhora de Quê (1990), Coisas de Partir (1993), Às Vezes o Paraíso (1998), Imagias (2002), A Arte de ser Tigre (2003) A Génese do Amor (2005), Se Fosse Um Intervalo (Dom Quixote, 2009), or Vozes (Dom Quixote, 2010), Ana Luísa Amaral is a professor at the University of Porto whose research interests include Comparative Poetics and Feminist Studies, English and American Poetry, and Comparativee Poetics. Her dissertation was on Emily Dickinson. She has also written seven books for children. Both her poetry and her children’s books have been adapted for the stage. The author of fifteen books of poetry, including Minha Senhora de Quê (1990), Coisas de Partir (1993), Às Vezes o Paraíso (1998), Imagias (2002), A Arte de ser Tigre (2003) A Génese do Amor (2005), Se Fosse Um Intervalo (Dom Quixote, 2009), or Vozes (Dom Quixote, 2010), Ana Luisa Amaral is a professor at the University of Porto whose research interests include Comparative Poetics and Feminist Studies, English and American Poetry, and Comparativee Poetics. Her dissertation was on Emily Dickinson. She has also written seven books for children. Both her poetry and her children’s books have been adapted for the stage. She is co-author (with Ana Gabriela Macedo) of the Dictionary of Feminist Criticism (Afrontamento, 2005) and organized the annotated edition of New Portuguese Letters [Novas Cartas Portuguesas, 1972], by Maria Isabel Barreno, Maria Teresa Horta and Maria Velho da Costa (2010). She currently coordinates the international project New Portuguese Letters 40 Years Later, a collaboration involving 13 international teams and more than 10 countries. She has also translated poets including Eunice de Souza (Poemas Escolhidos, 2001), John Updike (Ponto Último e Outros Poemas, 2009), and Emily Dickinson (Emily Dickinson: Cem Poemas, 2010). Her prizes and distinctions include the Correntes d’Escritas/Casino da Póvoa Prize (2007), the Premio di Poesia Giuseppe Acerbi (2007), the Grande Prémio da Associação Portuguesa de Escritores (2008), and the Prémio António Gedeão (2010). Her books have been translated into several languages and published in Brazil, Sweden, The Netherlands, France, Italy, Venezuela and Colombia. A collection of essays on her poetry, edited by Claire Wiliams and Teresa Louro, is forthcoming in the UK. Her most recent books are Como Tu (children’s literature, Quidnovi, 2012), Ara (fiction, Sextante, 2013), Emily Dickinson: Duzentos Poemas (translation, Relógio D’Água, 2014, forthcoming) and Escuro (poetry, Assírio & Alvim, 2014),