Known internationally for his novels, Neustadt Prize-winner Mia Couto first became famous for his short stories. Sea Loves Me includes sixty-four of his best, thirty-six of which appear in English for the first time. Covering the entire arc of Couto’s career, this collection displays the Mozambican author’s inventiveness, sensitivity, and social range with greater richness […]
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Book: ‘Sea Loves Me: Selected Stories’ by Mia Couto – Editor’s Note
Posted on 04 May 2021.
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How Free? The pressures on press freedom – by Len Port
Posted on 03 May 2021.
The United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres promotes World Press Freedom Day annually on 3rd May to raise awareness of the fundamental importance of press freedom and remind governments of their duty to respect and uphold the right to freedom of expression enshrined under the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. “Journalists and media workers are […]
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Frank Ferreira: Legally challenging Portugal’s electoral system – Interview
Posted on 23 April 2021.
By Carolina Matos, Editor Frank Ferreira is a proud Portuguese American, with dual citizenship, who believes that Portugal’s (including the Açores and Madeira) current electoral system is impractical, injurious, unfair, discriminatory, and unconstitutional for the Portuguese living abroad. In short, what we have is an abridgement of constitutional rights. Ferreira also believes that the solution […]
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Book: ‘Pessoa: A Biography’ by Richard Zenith – Editor’s Note
Posted on 23 April 2021.
Like Richard Ellmann’s James Joyce, Richard Zenith’s Pessoa immortalizes the life of one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers. Eighty-five years after his wrenching death in a cramped Lisbon apartment, where he left more than 25,000 manuscript sheets in a wooden trunk, Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) remains one of the most enigmatic and underappreciated poets of the twentieth century. Celebrated […]
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COVID’19: Azores appeal for emergency help within the US community – Portugal
Posted on 17 April 2021.
The Government of Portugal has declined to support the Government of the Azores in procuring emergency COVID’19 vaccines in the United States, by refusing to invoke the Cooperation and Defense Agreement between the Portuguese Government and the United States, to supply vaccines for the underserved Azorean population. “We must effectively and quickly immunize the population […]
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Memoir (II): How I Found my Portuguese Family – By Diogo Teixeira
Posted on 16 April 2021.
I had an aunt in Portugal I had never met. She was my father’s only sibling, older than he, about 70, and lived in Vale de Cambra, my father’s hometown about 50 km southeast of Porto. She was married, had three grown daughters, and one of them still ran the family business, Farmácia Teixeira da […]
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