Starting June 26, Lisbon will host the 10th edition of Inquietud – International Literary Program, which will include more than 40 Portuguese and North American writers, announced the National Center for Culture (CNC).
This is a return to the initiative, after a two-year interruption, for health reasons related to covid-19.
Among the participants, the presence of the writers Ondjaki, Ana Margarida de Carvalho, Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida, Patrícia Portela, Patrícia Reis, Teolinda Gersão, Ana Paula Tavares, Jacinto Lucas Pires, Yara Monteiro, Susana Moreira Marques, Matilde Campilho and Rui Cardoso Martins, among the Portuguese-language authors.
On the North American side, Tayari Jones, Ben Lerner, Maaza Mengiste, Danielle Evans, Shayla Lawson, Gabriel Bump, T Kira Madden, Katherine Vaz, Richard Zenith and Jennifer Acker, and the editors of Granta magazine were announced.
The CNC adds that “work sessions led by Jensen Beach, Deanne Fitzmaurice, Arthur Flowers, Annie Liontas, Cyriaco López and Terri Witek are planned.”
The Restlessness program – International Literary Program “is based on the principle that immersion in a foreign culture, in a different environment than usual, and the consequent break with routines, tend to stimulate creativity, opening new perspectives and new angles of interpretation of the world around us. , resulting in an undoubted enrichment for all those who participate in it”, reads the CNC statement.
The initiative has been carried out since 2011, and this year, the public sessions take place essentially in the Baixa-Chiado area of the Portuguese capital, specifically at the CNC headquarters, at the São Luiz Theater, in the building of the “Brotéria” magazine, at the Fundação José Saramago, at the São Carlos National Theater, at the Cloister of the São Roque Museum, at the Grémio Literário and at the Luso-American Development Foundation, in the Lapa neighborhood, which supports the initiative .
After Lisbon, which ends on July 8, a literary residency is held “immediately” in Loulé, Algarve, (Dis)Quiet Loulé, “during which a smaller group of writers will have the opportunity to write and get to know each other better. , taking advantage of the intense experience they had during the program in Lisbon and in contrast to it”.
Source: Observadora
