Paulo da Costa, born in Angola and raised in Portugal, is a bilingual Canadian-Portuguese author, editor and translator living in Canada.
Works
Fiction
Scent of a Lie - 2002 - Caribbean & Canada Commonwealth Writers Prize 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
External links
Author Web Page
Writers Union of Canada
GoodReads
Angolan emigrants to Portugal
Portuguese emigrants to Canada
21st-century Canadian poets
21st-century Canadian novelists
Canadian male novelists
Living people
21st-century Portuguese poets
Canadian male poets
Portuguese male poets
21st-century Canadian male writers
1965 births
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