| Personal Profile |
Born
in Luanda, Angola and raised in Vale
de Cambra, Portugal. Lives in Canada. Currently works as a freelance writer and
translator.
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| Literary Publications
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The Scent of a Lie
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short stories – Ekstasis
Editions, 2002, ISBN: 1-894800-07-9.
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notas de rodapé -
Portuguese poetry – Livros Pé
d'Orelha - Maio 2005
Published in the following anthologies:
New Writing
14, Granta UK 2006
Dance the Guns to Silence,
Flipped Eye Publishing 2005, UK, ISBN: 1905233019
Writing Across Canada -
Nightwood Editions 2004 ISBN: 0-88971-199-2
"Four Poems" in TransLit
- Volume VI, Maureen Ranson. ATIA
2004, ISBN: 0969837135.
"The Breath of Memory" in Writing
On Air, D. Rothenberg and
W. Pryor eds. MIT Press 2003.ISBN 0-262-18230-0
"Hell's Mouth Bay" in
Original Sins
, Canongate UK 2001, ISBN: 1
84195 081 5.
"Untitled" in Translit Volume 5
TransLit
- Volume V - Maureen Ranson. Red
Deer Press 2001, ISBN: 0889952507.
Published in more than a dozen Canadian
literary magazines including dANDelion, The Toronto
Review, Antigonish Review, Pottersfield Portfolio,
Gaspereau Review. His work has been broadcast on CBC
Radio Between the Covers and on CBC Alberta WildRose
Country.
Published in Australia, New Zealand,
Switzerland, Portugal, Brazil, Ireland, India, Singapore,
England, Italy, Greece, Slovenia, Argentina, Serbia,
Sweden, Czech Republic, USA, Scotland and France.
Fiction and poetry published in
translation to Portuguese, Spanish, Serbian, Slovenian,
German and Italian respectively by Mauro Faccioni Filho, Mirta
Rosenberg, David Albahari, Jasmina Markic, Thorsten Nesch
and Gigliotti Giuseppina.
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Book Reviews
include: Patricia Young, Patrick Lane, Shawna Lemay,
George Melnyk and susan holbrook. Interviews include: Adrienne Rich, Alberto
Manguel, Robert Kroetsch, Eugénio de Andrade, Dionne
Brand, Erin Mouré, Patrick Lane and others.
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| Awards |
Caribbean & Canada
Commonwealth Writers Prize 2003 - First Book
2002
W.O. Mitchell City of Calgary Book Prize
2003 ProVerbo 1. Prémio - Poesia (Poetry 1st
Prize - in Portuguese)
2003 ProVerbo 1. Prémio - Conto (Short-Story 1st
Prize – in Portuguese)
Canongate Prize for Short-Fiction 2001
– Winner
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| Translations |
Portuguese to English –
Portuguese poets: Al Berto, Nuno Júdice, José Tolentino
Mendonça, Rita Taborda Duarte and Daniel Faria.
Brazilian poets: Mauro Faccioni Filho and Ricardo Corona.
Angolan poet Paula Tavares. English
to Portuguese – Canadian poets: Gary
Geddes, Patrick Lane, Richard Harrison, rajinderpal s. pal, Shane
Rhodes, Weyman Chan, Joelene Heathcote and Carmen Derkson.
And Serb fiction writer David
Albahari.
Spanish to English
– Mexican poets: Coral Bracho and Verónica Volkow. Chilean poet
Luis Torres, Peruvian fiction writer Eduardo González-Viaña.
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BOOKS
- FICTION
The Scent of a Lie
- SHORT-STORIES - Ekstasis Editions, Victoria (2002) - Paperback (140p) Format: 196 x 126 ISBN:
1-894800-07-9
~POESIA
NOTAS DE RODAPÉ - Ed.
Livros Pé d'Orelha - 2005
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CD's - Audio
TWENTY POEMS - English
audio chap-disc
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From
the Book of Water:
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woman
ashore, dries
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the
ocean clings to your bedroom walls
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singing
forest
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hank’s
beach
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pearls
roll
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drop
upon drop
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i
smell sage
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an
unopened envelope of garden seeds
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relinquishing
the light
From
Other:
alchemy
/ banking on democracy
from
footnotes:
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oedipus
before oedipus
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this
far, this near
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wiebke's
swirl
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rainbow
moon: 2
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rainbow
moon: 3
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Twenty
Poems - poems previously published in literary magazines and
anthologies in North America, Europe and Australia,
and yet to be collected in book form. These poems, now available in audio
and read by the author, are excerpted from three separate manuscripts. The
Book of Water, footnotes (English version) and other.
Ed.
Livros Pé d'Orelha ISBN 0-9781847-0-X
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poem - without roots
XX POEMAS -
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NO PRELO
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Audio-CD - Português
XX poemas Colecção
de vinte poemas em português seleccionados
de dois manuscritos de poesia intitulados: Eco (lógico) e bifocal .
CAN $14.95 / P.V.P.
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Livros Pé d'Orelha
ISBN978-972-99543-2-0
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ÍNDICE
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– do ECO (LÓGICO)
1.
ser português /
2. o meu vestir tem sotaque / 3. outubro evacuou as praias
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uma chuva infindável / 5.
és a onda sonora /
6. a luz do candeeiro de rua
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nem todos os teus dedos / 8. como quem cataloga os dias
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água do paivô sussurra / 10.
o mocho pia / 11. eco (lógico)
12.
as sardinhas, as baleias e as algas / 13.
a árvore
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vive / 15.
latas / 16. não me digas palaxinhos / 17.
agradeço
II
. do
bifocal
18.
bifocal IV / 19.
bifocal VIII /
20.
bifocal VII
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MIDWIFE OF TORMENT
& OTHER STORIES
audio chap-disc
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MIDWIFE OF TORMENT & OTHER
STORIES
Midwife
of Torment and Other Stories
is
a collection of sudden fictions. The thirteen stories featured in
this CD, and read by the author, have been previously published in
literary magazines in Canada and internationally. These new stories,
written concurrently to paulo da costa's first book, The Scent of a Lie,
allow the reader to revisit some of the characters from his first book.
Time 72:00
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Listen to sample story Robalo Silva's Dream 6'
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ANTHOLOGIES
Synopsis
Granta has become the publisher of the British Council's annual anthologies
of writing, which showcase the best in fiction, non-fiction and poetry from
established and up-and-coming writers in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and
the Commonwealth.
Dance The Guns to Silence
Editors: Nii Ayikwei Parkes & Kadija Sesay
Publisher: Flipped Eye Price: £5.99/$12.00
216 pp ISBN: 1905233019 - 2005
Dance the Guns to Silence, a new collection of poetry, edited by Nii Ayikwei
Parkes and Kadija Sesay, dedicated to Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni 8. Poets in
the book include: Amiri Baraka, Kamau Brathwaite, Merle Collins, Jayne Cortez,
Fred D'Aguiar, Kwame Dawes, Martín Espada, Linton Kwesi Johnson, E. Ethelbert
Miller, Mutabaruka, Sonia Sanchez, Benjamin Zephaniah. African poets living at
home and abroad, including, Chris Abani, Syl Cheney Coker, paulo da costa,
Chenjerai Hove, Jack Mapanje, Odia Ofeimun, Tanure Ojiade, Niyi Osundare,
Veronique Tadjo, Nnimmo Bassey Renowned Kevin Powell, Staceyann Chin, Eva
Salzman, Opal Palmer Adisa, Nathalie Handal, Merle Collins, Tony Medina, Sharan
Strange, Geoffrey Philp, Kalamu ya Salaam, Sarah Maguire, Pascale Petit, Mario
Petrucci, Nathalie Handal, Ruth Padel, Matthew Caley. Up and coming Rommi Smith,
Steve Tasane, Heather Taylor, Choman Hardi, Rachel E. Griffiths, Kamilah Aisha
Moon, Zena Edwards, and many more award winning poets and laureates.
Nightwood Editions
5 x 7 · 110 pages - 0-88971-199-2
Paperback · $13.00
September 2004
Write Across Canada is a fictional journey of
nearly 10,000 kilometres across the cultural and geographical diversity of the
nation.
In this book, 19 of Canada’s most acclaimed storytellers contribute the
narrative pieces that together compose a humorously accurate national
reflection. Each author was commissioned by the Ottawa International Writers
Festival to write a chapter, set in their local community, in a serial story
moving across the country from East to West.
WRITING ON AIR
An Anthology
Edited by David Rothenberg and
Wandee Pryor. MIT Press 2003 Spring ISBN 0-262-18230-0
For centuries, humans have tried to master air.
Sea captains rein it in with their sails, and pilots cut through
it with their wings. We have machines to pump air into our lungs
and computers to anticipate the movement of the winds. Air
pervades everything we do and gives us life, yet it is impossible
to capture. We can only evoke it through images, impressions, and
feelings. This book offers a collage of such evocations expressed
through prose, poetry, photography, and drawings.
From aerial plankton to Navajo wind gods, from joyful singing to
painful emphysema, from gentle breezes to violent storms, Writing
on Air creates a fresh way of thinking about the role of air
in our everyday lives. Included in the book are prose pieces by
poet Hayden Carruth, paulo da costa, Kristjana Gunnars, filmmaker
Werner Herzog, Howard Mansfield, Sarah Menin, and C. L. Rawlins;
an excerpt from a play by Carl Djerassi and Roald Hoffmann on the
discovery of oxygen; poems by Lori Anderson, Tõnu Õnnepalu,
Andrew Schelling, and Virgil Suárez; and art and photography by
Manuel Acevedo, Stuart Allen, Marsha Cottrell, Susan Derges, the
Korwa tribe of the Indian hills, Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Tuula Närhinen, and the airborne dancers of Project
Bandaloop.
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"A glorious anthology of essays…"
-- Umbrella
"This collection of essays, short fictions and poems
will delight anyone who has an interest in both air and
writing."
-- Mike Holderness, NewScientist
This rich collection will spark the imagination of anyone
eager to consider one of our most essential elements
-- Publisher's Weekly
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"Writing on Air is a superb anthology. It
successfully integrates science and imagination, using
narrative, memory, and metaphor to convey complex environmental
and biospheric concepts."
--Mitchell S. Thomashow, Chair, Department of Environmental
Studies, Antioch New England Graduate School
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the-phone-book.com - an
anthology of the shortest fiction
Each book sleeve has been handmade by artist
Gordon Connell using a solvent print system that guarantees that
every cover is unique. Each book is numbered and signed by both
Gordon and the-phone-book.com Editor, Ben Stebbing. Numbers are
limited to 1000 copies of each version
Original Sins
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Anthology of Canongate Prize Winners
(Canongate 2001)
Paperback (195 pp) Format: 196 x 126
ISBN: 1 84195 081 5
TransLit - Volume VII
ISBN: 0969837143 ATIA 2006
TransLit - Volume VI
ISBN: 0969837135 ATIA 2004
Translit Volume 5
TransLit - Volume
V ISBN: 0889952507
(Red Deer Press 2001)
A Generation Defining Itself
Volume IV
by Marlow Weaver (Editor) Paperback - 160
pages Vol 4 (May 15, 2002)
Mw Enterprises; ISBN:
0965413659; Dimensions (in inches): 0.39 x 8.99 x 6.02
©paulodacosta
