The Vale da Amoreira municipal library, in the municipality of Moita, in Setúbal, will change its name. As of this Friday, June 10, Portugal Day, it will be called Bruno Vieira Amaral Library.
The information is provided by a statement from the Quetzal publishing house, which has published the two novels released so far by the Portuguese writer, the first things (2013) and Today you will be with me in paradise (2017).
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The new name of the library is a tribute to an author who has placed the action of some of his books, not just novels, on the south bank of the Tagus and in the Amoreira Valley —and who in 2015 was awarded the Saramago for his inaugural novel, also distinguished with other awards such as the PEN Narrative, among others.
Not only a novelist but also an essayist and literary critic, Bruno Vieira Amaral has also published the works Integrated Fringebiography of Jose Cardoso Pires, Suspended City – Lisbon in State of Emergency (with Miguel Valle de Figueiredo), A trip to a motel and other storieswinner of the Camilo Castelo Branco Short Story Grand Prix, Guerrilla Maneuvers: Boxers, Pokemon, and Geniuses, Hallelujah! Y Guide to 50 Portuguese fictional characters.
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In addition to the eight published works, Bruno Vieira Amaral also collaborates regularly with the magazine Ler, the weekly Expresso and the Observador. Quoted in the statement sent by his publisher, he says: “I have been a frequent visitor to the library since its opening and my journey as a reader is closely linked to that space in which I discovered, over the years, all the books, press and authors that have marked me: from Quino to Goscinny, from O Independente magazine to sports newspapers, from Umberto Eco to Gabriel García Márquez”.
It was always a place of study and discovery and, furthermore, a meeting point for my generation that I ended up bringing and, in a way, paying homage to it, in my first novel. the first things», he will have said in addition.
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Source: Observadora
