Paulo da Costa, born in

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and raised in

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, is a bilingual

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Portuguese Portuguese may refer to: * anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal ** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods ** Portuguese language, a Romance language *** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language ** Portu ...

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, editor and translator living in Canada.

Works

Fiction

*''Scent of a Lie'' - 2002 - Caribbean & Canada

Commonwealth Writers Prize Commonwealth Foundation presented a number of prizes between 1987 and 2011. The main award was called the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and was composed of two prizes: the Best Book Prize (overall and regional) was awarded from 1987 to 2011; the Best ...

Best First Book 2003, 2002 W.O. Mitchell City of Calgary Book Prize, 2001 Cannongate Prize - Scotland. *''O Perfume da Mentira'' - Livros Pé d'Orelha, 2012 *''The Green and Purple Skin of The World'' - Freehand Books, 2013 *''The Midwife of Torment & Other Stories'', 55 sudden fictions – Guernica Editions, 2017

Non-Fiction

*''Beyond Bullfights and Ice Hockey, Essays on Identity, Language and Writing Culture'', Boavista Press, 2015

Poetry

*''Notas-de-rodapé'' - Portuguese poems – Livros Pé d'Orelha, 2005

Literary translation

*''The Cartography of Being – Translated poems of Nuno Júdice 1970-2005'' LPO 2012

Audio chapbooks

* ''Notas-de-rodapé - Portuguese poems'' – Livros Pé d'Orelha 2005 * ''Midwife of Torment & Other Stories'' - Livros Pé d'Orelha 2005 * ''Twenty Poems – English Poems'' - Livros Pé d'Orelha – 2006 * ''XX poemas - Portuguese poems'' - Livros Pé d'Orelha - 2006 * ''The Book of Catalogues'' – Livros Pé d'Orelha - 2010

Awards

*2020 James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction *2003 Caribbean & Canada Region Commonwealth Writers Prize – First Book *2002 W.O. Mitchell City of Calgary Book Prize *2001 Canongate Short-Fiction Prize (Scotland) *1999 CBC Alberta Anthology – Short Story Portuguese *2003 ProVerbo . Prémio – Poesia (Poetry Prize – Portuguese) *2003 ProVerbo . Prémio – Conto (Short-Story Prize – Portuguese)

References

Writers’ Guild of Alberta
"The 2020 Alberta Literary Awards
''Writers’ Guild of Alberta'', June 04, 2020

External links

Author Web Page

Writers Union of Canada

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