Teolinda Gersão

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Teolinda Gersão is author of 19 books, translated in 20 countries. Some of her works have been adapted to theatre and cinema. She received some of the most important Portuguese literary awards and was writer-in-residence at the University of California, Berkeley.Some of her works have been adapted to theatre and cinema. English translations: The Word Tree (novel) Dedalus Books, UK, City of Ulysses (novel) Dalkey Archive, USA. Short stories in Two Lines, The Common, The Threepenny Review, A Public Space, Harden Ferry´s Review. Anthologies: New Sudden Fiction, Best short stories from America and beyond, W.W. Norton, 2007 Take Six, (Six Portuguese Women Writers), edited by Margaret Jull Costa, Dedalus Books, UK, 2018 Best European Fiction, edited by Alex Andriesse, Dalkey Archive Press, USA 2019 Lisbon Stories, edited by Helen Constantine and Amanda Hopkinson, Oxford University Press, 2019. Best small fiction 2021, (Sonderpress. First published in The Common). Her translator is Margaret Jull Costa. Photo by HomemCardoso