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In 1988, he was interested in an essay named Que Futuro para a Língua Portuguesa em África?, the African emeritus which "was five" [African nations] that took part "in the principle of its language and a cultural fact", transformed Portuguese into an "orality plan and a writer plan". "For himself, the future would be like this" A language ...
Pires connected to American writing styles at a time when Portugal looked to France (and somewhat to north-eastern Brazilian regionalism) for its narrative models. In a documentary produced for Portuguese television, Pires spoke about how after he saw his first film as a boy, it led him to seek refuge in cinemas.
The Book of Disquiet (Portuguese: Livro do Desassossego: Composto por Bernardo Soares, ajudante de guarda-livros na cidade de Lisboa) is a work by the Portuguese author Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935). Published posthumously, The Book of Disquiet is a fragmentary lifetime project, left unedited by the author, who introduced it as a "factless ...
The Livraria Lello & Irmão, commonly known in English as the Lello Bookshop, is a bookshop located in the civil parish of Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau e Vitória, in the northern Portuguese municipality of Porto.
Ana Margarida de Carvalho. Ana Margarida Taborda Duarte Martins de Carvalho (born 1969 in Lisbon) is a Portuguese writer and journalist.She is the only Portuguese writer to be award with the Grande Prémio da Associação Portuguesa de Escritores (APE/DGLB) for each of her three successive works of literary fiction; they were for two novels and a short-story collection.
There are three livros de linhagens ('lineage books') from medieval Portugal: [1] Livro Velho de Linhagens (1286–1290), fragmentary; Livro de Linhagens do Deão (1343) Livro de Linhagens do Conde Dom Pedro (c. 1344)
She has published already more than eight dozen titles and won several prestigious awards in Portugal in the field of literature for children and teenagers. [ 3 ] Her books have been translated to Bulgarian , Catalan , Chinese , Dutch , French , Galician , German , Hungarian , Italian , Korean , Russian , Serbo-Croatian , Spanish .
In Portugal, the then President of the Republic, Jorge Sampaio, awarded her the Grand Cross of the Order of Infante D. Henrique on 9 March 2005. [15] The President of the French Republic, Jacques Chirac , on 13 April 2005, decorated her as a Chevalier of the French Order of Arts and Letters , being later elevated to the rank of Officer, on July ...