27 May 2013
Mia Couto is the winner of the 2013 Camões Prize for Literature, one of the most prestigious international awards honoring the work of Portuguese language writers – it was announced Monday, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The awarding jury included writers José Eduardo Agualusa and Joao Paulo Borges Coelho, journalist José Carlos Vasconcelos, professor Clara […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Awards, Books, Brazil, Featured, Heritage, Mozambique, People, Portugal, World
27 May 2013
This text, ostensibly the autobiography of Portuguese explorer Fernão Mendes Pinto, came second only to Marco Polo’s work in exciting Europe’s imagination of the Orient. Chronicling adventures from Ethiopia to Japan, Travels covers twenty years of Mendes Pinto’s odyssey as a soldier, a merchant, a diplomat, a slave, a pirate, and a missionary, and continues […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Books, Damão, Diu, East Timor, Featured, Goa, Life Style, Politics, Portugal, Travel, World
23 May 2013
By Michel Colson, Contributor (*) W.B. Yeats and Fernando Pessoa seem to be ill-suited for comparison. True, they were both Modernist poets who were near contemporaries, but the Portuguese man-of-letters was hardly among Yeats’s literary friends. Although he was conversant in English, Pessoa didn’t have the credentials that would have situated him in the elder […]
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22 May 2013
An international panel has presented the Azores, again, with the QualityCoast Gold Award as the best European most sustainable holiday destination. The award was announced Monday, in Gozo, Malta, at the Year on Coastal Tourism event, during the 6th edition of European Maritime Day Conference. The QualityCoast Awards are considered a most prestigious international honor […]
21 May 2013
Nassau County, one of the largest counties in the United States, has officially announced their honorees and program for its 2013 Portugal Day Celebration on Long Island, NY. County Executive Ed Mangano and Comptroller George Maragos will also honor the 75 year-old community of almost 7,500 Portuguese-Americans at the Theodore Roosevelt Legislative & Executive Building […]
Posted in Awards, Community, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People
21 May 2013
Evidence of Chinese fleets routinely patrolling the Atlantic Ocean, near the Azores, is raising speculation that China may have thrown an eye on the military Lajes Air Field, on Terceira Island, jointly managed by Portugal and the United States. According to the Asia Times, “The whole psychodrama unfolded at the end of June 2012, when […]
Posted in Azores, Featured, Politics, Portugal, Terceira, World
