23 June 2016
José Luís Peixoto is one of Portugal’s bestselling writers. Literature Nobel Prize, José Saramago, referred to him as “the most surprising revelation in recent Portuguese literature.” According to the author, A Child in Ruins is a selection from the three poetry collections he has authored. A Child in Ruins is the title of the first of these […]
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23 June 2016
TAP Portugal is now offering a twice-weekly flight between Newark and Porto, mainland Portugal, in addition to daily non-stop direct flights to Lisbon from John F. Kennedy Airport (JFK) in New York and the Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts. Tap Portugal has also increased its seasonal offer with direct daily flights to Lisbon from Miami […]
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20 June 2016
Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama (c.1460-1524), the first navigator to sail directly from Europe to India, was honored with a statue dedicated to him in Angra do Heroísmo, Terceira. The unveiling of the statue, on June 10, memorializes Vasco da Gama’s stop at Terceira island, in 1499, to lay to rest his brother Paulo da […]
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18 June 2016
For the twenty eight consecutive year, the Madeira Classic Car Club (CACM) is organizing the Madeira Classic Car Rally, taking place on June 25-26, one of the finest displays of antique and classic cars in the world. The tour includes a large fleet of beautifully restored classic and vintage cars. All vehicles entering the competition […]
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17 June 2016
George Monteiro never intended to write a memoir. But as the stories, poems, and sketches about his childhood in a Depression-Era New England mill town began to pile up, he found that he was writing a composite memoir of Valley Falls, Rhode Island and its Portuguese American community. Like his parents, many of these people […]
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14 June 2016
Gregory Rabassa, 94, revered American literary translator from Spanish and Portuguese to English, died June 13, in Branford, Connecticut. He translated major works by Portuguese, Brazilian and Latin American novelists, including Gabriel García Márquez, Julio Cortázar, Mario Vargas Llosa, Jorge Amado, Clarice Lispector, and Machado de Assis among many others. Gregory Rabassa translated works by […]
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