Two Portuguese-language writers are among the 70 nominees for the 2023 Dublin International Literary Award, Yara Monteiro, a Portuguese of Angolan origin, with This lady hits a lotand the Brazilian Luiz Ruffato, with The end of summer.
The official website of the literary award today announced the long list of candidates for the award valued at 100,000 euros, chosen by 84 libraries around the world, including authors from 31 countries.
The nominees include 29 translated novels originally published in Portuguese, Spanish, Arabic, Finnish, Russian, French, Croatian, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Bulgarian, Dutch, Hindi, Korean, Slovenian, Icelandic, and Japanese.
One of the works originally published in Portuguese is This lady hits a lotby Yara Nakahanda Monteiro, translated into English by Sandra Tamele, with the title “Loose Ties”.
Published in Portugal in 2018 by Guerra & Paz, this is a story of self-discovery, between satire and tragedy, abandonment and rupture, about a woman born in Angola, but raised by her grandparents in Portugal, who a few months before her wedding flees to her home country in search of her mother and her own identity, including her sexual identity.
The other novel in Portuguese language, The end of summerby Luiz Ruffato, was translated into last summerby Julia Sanches, and is not published in Portugal.
It is a story about a man and his attempts to reconnect the threads of the past, a journey to the limits of a divided Brazil, in which dialogue no longer seems possible.
The author has other books published in Portugal, such as there were many horses and you don’t even remember me anymorein Chinese ink, and I was in Lisbon and I remembered youby Quetzal.
The list of nominees also includes authors such as Karl Ove Knausgard and his novel the morning starHervé Le Tellier, with the anomalyIlja Leonard Pfeijffer, with grand hotel europeLove Towels, with lincoln highwayand Elif Shafak, with The island of the lost trees.
Among the nominees there are also other titles such as Little things like theseby Claire Keegan sea of tranquilityby Emily St. John Mandel, crossingby Jonathan Franzen, and paradales by Fernanda Melchor, a Mexican author whose previous novel, Hurricane seasonwas a finalist for this award and has been published in Portugal since last week.
The Dublin Literary Prize is organized by the municipality of the capital of Ireland and managed by the public libraries of the city, with a monetary value of 100 thousand euros, to be delivered in full to the author of the winning work, in case it is written. in English, or, in the case of translation, to be divided between the writer and the translator, in the amount of 75 thousand euros and 25 thousand euros, respectively.
The shortlist for the 2023 Dublin International Literary Prize will be announced on March 28 and the winner will be announced on May 25.
The love the art of losingby French author Alice Zeniter, was the winner of the 2022 Dublin Literary Prize.
Source: Observadora
