27 October 2012
The song “Amigo Aprendiz” [Friend Apprentice], a poem by Portuguese Modernist poet, Fernando Pessoa, was named one of the 12 best ballads of 2012, by the prestigious U.S. The Atlantic Magazine. The song, with music by Tiago Bettencourt and interpreted by Fado vocalist, Rodrigo Costa Félix, integrates the singer’s latest album, “Fados de Amor,” issued last […]
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27 October 2012
A Portuguese-language edition of the British literary magazine Granta is to be published from next spring, according to the Lisbon publishing house that is to produce it, the Portuguese news agency Lusa reported. “The magazine may be annual, half-yearly or quarterly, but we thought that in Portugal it should be half-yearly, not least because this […]
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25 October 2012
The Portuguese Writers’ Association (APE) has awarded its prestigious 2012 APE National Grand Prize “Grande Prémio de Romance e Novela” to author Ana Teresa Pereira for her latest novel , O Lago, [The Lake]. According to the jury, the book was awarded for its “daring” and being “the most original” of those in contention. “What […]
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23 October 2012
The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture, the Graduate Program in Luso-Afro-Brazilian Studies, and the African and African-American Studies Program announced a lecture, “Portuguese Colonialism in the 20th Century: An Overview,” by Professor Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses of the National University of Ireland. The event, free and open to the public, is scheduled for […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Conferences, Education, Featured, Heritage, People, Portugal, World
23 October 2012
In the writing world, Portuguese-American author Amy Sayre’ creative life exists between the places that have shaped her family and her work: the Madeira Islands, Illinois and Eastern Tennessee. Currently teaching at Benedictine University in Lisle, Illinois, where she is also associate poetry editor at Quiddity Literary Journal, her latest publication is forthcoming in Ninth Letter, […]
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22 October 2012
By Carolina Matos, Editor (*) The Azorean-Jewish Heritage Foundation, an interfaith delegation from Massachusetts, is in Ponta Delgada, São Miguel island, Azores, to launch the Sabar Hassamain Synagogue restoration project. The non-profit group is hoping to restore the only remaining synagogue in the Azores. The delegation met Monday with José Manuel Bolieiro, Ponta Delgada’s acting […]
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