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InternationalLiterary Program

PROGRAM & GUIDE

JUNE 19 JULY 2 2011

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Program Schedule open-to-the-public session ⁄ ⁄ parallel sessions

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GETTING THEREAll events indicate the meeting point for the event AND transport to the event if you wish to travel there on your own. Following the program schedule, there are detailed maps and directions from the Centro Nacional de Cultura (CNC) for each location. In addition, an assistant will meet participants at the CNC approximately 45 minutes before each event to travel there together by taxi, foot, or transport.

JUNE 19, Sunday

Participants Arrival

2.30 pm INFORMAL CITY TOUR led by CNC and Dzanc Books staff (departure from Centro Nacional de Cultura - see the Maps & Directions sections for instructions to get you to the CNC from the program hotels/hostels)

6.00 pm PROGRAM ORIENTATION Light refreshments will be servedCentro Nacional de CulturaLargo do Picadeiro, 10 (door next to the street Café “Café No Chiado”)

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JUNE 20, Monday

10.00 am | 12.30 pm WORKSHOPS with KIM ADDONIZIO, SALLY ASHTON, BRIAN EVENSON, FRANK GASPAR, and JOSIP NOVAKOVICH Centro Nacional de Cultura, Rua António Maria Cardoso, 68

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2.30 pm | 4.30 pm THE LISBOA OF FERNANDO PESSOA WALKguided by HELENA TOMAZ and CRISTINA BRAUMANN Meeting at Largo do São Carlos, close to the opera theatre arches.Dress code: comfortable shoes

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6.30 pm WELCOME RECEPTION AT THE OFFICIAL RESIDENCE OF THE UNITED STATES EMBASSY Deputy Chief of Mission Lucy TamlinAvenida da Torre de Belém, 11Dress code: Business casual

JUNE 21, Tuesday

// 10.30 am | 12.30 pm LECTURE: CAMÕES AND THE EPIC PORTUGUESE DISCOVERIES with ROGÉRIO MIGUEL PUGA CETAPS (Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies) T7 classroom, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Avenida de Berna, 26-C

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Rogério Miguel Puga holds a Ph.D. in Anglo-Portuguese Studies. He is a Senior Researcher in the Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies (CETAPS, FCSH of the New University), where he also teaches. He collaborates on several research projects with the Centre for Portuguese Overseas History (CHAM, New University) and with the Centre for Comparative Studies (Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon). He was an Assistant Professor at the University of Macao (2007-2009). He has published several academic essays and books on Anglo-Portuguese Studies (Portuguese and Anglophone literatures), Travel Writing and Gender, the British and American presences in the Portuguese Asian Empire, and the History of Portuguese and British Empires. He is the editor of the European Journal of Macao Studies.

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// 11.00 am | 12.30 pm LECTURE & DISCUSSION with PATRÍCIA REIS“Portugal: a writer from the XIII Century, from the nationality”Centro Nacional de CulturaLargo do Picadeiro, 10 (door next to the street Café “Café No Chiado”)

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Patrícia Reis (b 1970) began her journalistic career in 1988 working in different Portuguese and international media: O independente, Sábado, Marie Claire. She moved to New York to work at Time Magazine, and back in Portugal she produced a TV show entitled Sexulidades and collaborated with the newspapers Expresso and Público and the magazine Elle. She now lives in Portugal and is the publisher of her own magazine Egoísta and partner of the Design Atelier 004. She is the author of the photo-novel Beija -me (Kiss Me, 2006), the novella Cruz das Almas (Cross of Souls, 2004), and of the novels Amor em Segunda Mão (Second Hand Love, 2006), Morder-te o Coração (To Bite your Heart, 2007) and No silêncio de Deus (In God’s silence, 2008), all published by Dom Quixote. In God’s silence was also published in Brazil (2009) by Lingua Geral.

// 2.00 pm | 5.30 pm WORKSHOP Contemporary Portuguese American Poetic Strands – with MARGARIDA VALE DE GATOUniversidade de Lisboa, Room 1.26

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A workshop on translating poetry, which will include 1) theoretical notions about the generic problems of translating diasporic literatures; 2) information on Portuguese-American literary works and studies ; and mostly 3) Portuguese-English translation of poems by Alberto de Lacerda and English- -Portuguese translation of poems by the Portuguese-American poet Frank X Gaspar.Margarida Vale de Gato holds a PhD. in North-American Literature and Culture. She is an Associate Researcher in the Centre for English Studies, University of Lisbon, where she also teaches literary translation. She has published several academic essays on North-American Literature, reception and translation studies, and literature and film/theatre. She is the author of the catalogue Poe in Portugal (2009) and of the poetry collection Mulher ao Mar (2010). Inter-arts is another of her research interests and she coordinated the program AIA – Arts, Ideas, Academia, in 2009. As a translator of literary texts from French and English into Portuguese, she has produced versions of Dickens, Yeats, Melville, E. A. Poe, Christina Rossetti, Kerouac, Henri Michaux, Natahalie Sarraute, René Char, among others.


// 2.30 pm | 4.00 pm READING FERNANDO PINTO DO AMARAL Centro Nacional de CulturaLargo do Picadeiro, 10 (door next to the street Café “Café No Chiado”)

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Writer, literary critic and translator, Fernando Pinto do Amaral was born in 1960 (Lisbon). He studied Medicine (1979 – 1981), but he graduated in Literary Studies (1986), having done his PhD in Portuguese Literature (1998). He is professor at the University of Lisbon, where he has taught since 1987. Since 1990 he published six poetry books, two collections of essays, a short-story collection, a novel, and two books for children. He translated Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal, Verlaine’s Poèmes Saturniens and the entire poetical work of Jorge Luis Borges. He was awarded several literary prizes. He is currently in charge of the National Reading Plan (Ministry of Education).

6.30 pm – 8.00 pm READING FRANK GASPAR, FRANK SOUSA, & RUI ZINK Launching of “Da Gama, Cary Grant, and the Election of 1934” by Charles Reis Felix FLAD – Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento (Luso-American Development Foundation )Auditorium, Rua Sacramento à Lapa, 21 (Taxi is the best way to get to FLAD; but as with all events, groups will leave from CNC 45 mins before start time)

Frank Xavier Gaspar was born and raised in Provincetown, Massachusetts, of Azorean Descent (Pico, Sao Miguel). His ancestors were traditionally whalers and Grand Banks fisherman, sailing out of the Islands and then Provincetown. He holds an MFA from the Graduate Writing Program at UC Irvine and is the author of four collections of poetry and two novels. Among his many awards are multiple inclusions in Best American Poetry, four Pushcart Prizes, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature, and a California Arts Council Fellowship in poetry. His most recent poetry collection, Night of a Thousand Blossoms was named one of the 12 best poetry books of 2004 by The Library Journal. His debut novel, Leaving Pico, was a Barnes and Noble Discover winner, a Borders Book of Distinction, a California Book award winner for first fiction, and a New York Times Notable Book (paperback edition). His latest novel, Stealing Fatima, was named a MassBook of the Year in Fiction by the Massachusetts Council of the Book. Most recently he held the Helio and Amelia Pedrosa/Luso-American Foundation Endowed Chair in Portuguese Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.


Frank Fontes Sousa is professor of Portuguese and director of the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture and of Tagus Press at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. He is the general editor of the Portuguese in the Americas Book Series |and the author of O Segredo de Eca: ideologia e ambiguidade em A cidade e as serras, an often-cited book on Portugal’s foremost nineteenth-century novelist, Eça de Queiroz.

Rui Zink (Lisbon, 1961) has published more than 30 books of fiction and many academic articles, for which he received several awards and distinctions, namely the Portuguese Pen 2005 prize and inclusion in the anthology Best European Fiction 2012. He received his Ph.D. in Portuguese Literature from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, where he is a professor at the graduate program. In 2008 he was Hélio and Amélia Pedroso/FLAD Endowed Chair and writer in residence in the University of Massachussetts Dartmouth, and in 2011 he will be writer in residence at Middlebury College in Vermont. He is the director of the “Portugal na América” series.

Charles Reis Felix was born in 1923 in New Bedford, Mass., one of four children of Portuguese immigrant parents. His first published book, Crossing the Sauer (Burford Books, 2002), an account of his experience as a combat infantryman in WWII, was hailed by Paul Fussell, author of The Great War and Modern Memory, as “one of the most honest, unforgettable memoirs of the war I’ve read.” His second book, a memoir entitled Through a Portagee Gate (Tagus Press, 2003), is a remarkably honest self-portrait and an endearing tribute to the author’s father, a Portuguese immigrant cobbler who came to America in 1915. His fourth book, Tony, A New England Boyhood (Tagus Press, 2008), is a novel about growing up in the 1930s in Gaw, a fictional industrial city very much like New Bedford.

JUNE 22, Wednesday

10.00 am | 12.30 pm WORKSHOPSCentro Nacional de Cultura, Rua António Maria Cardoso, 68

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2 pm | 3.30 pm PUBLISHING PANEL with RESA ALBOHER, MARIA ELIADES, JONATHAN FINK and GUILHERMINA GOMESCentro Nacional de CulturaLargo do Picadeiro, 10 (door next to the street Café “Café No Chiado”)

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Resa Alboher is one of the founding editors of St. Petersburg Review, an annual independent international review of contemporary literature that seeks to support global connections. She lives and writes in Moscow, Russia. Find SPR online at http://www.stpetersburgreview.com/.

Maria Eliades is a Greek-American writer who was born in New York and raised in New Jersey but currently lives in Istanbul, Turkey. She mainly writes for TimeOut: Istanbul (in English) on Turkish literature in translation and Istanbul’s literary scene.

Jonathan Fink is an Associate Professor and the Director of Creative Writing at University of West Florida, where he edits the literary journal Panhandler (http://uwf.edu/panhandler/). Jon’s poems have appeared in Poetry, New England Review, TriQuarterly, Slate, The Southern Review, Southwest Review, and Virginia Quarterly Review, among other publications. He has received the Editors’ Prize in Poetry from The Missouri Review and fellowships and scholarships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs, the St. Botolph Club Foundation, and Breadloaf Writers’

Guilhermina Gomes. Age: 591976/78 – Living and studying in England (Diploma in English Studies extra-mural Cambridge University)1983 – Degree in History – Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa1990 – Publishing summer course – Stanford University32 years serving Círculo de Leitores; 28 years in publishing; 26 years of Frankfurt Book Fairs; Many years attending Book Expo and visitor in New York of publishers and literary agents; Juror of the Literary Prize José Saramago promoted by the Foundation Círculo de Leitores

6.30 pm | 8 pm READING, LECTURE & DISCUSSION with VALTER HUGO MÃE and BRIAN EVENSONCentro Nacional de CulturaLargo do Picadeiro, 10 (door next to the street Café “Café No Chiado”)

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valter hugo mãe, a novelist, poet, artist, and musician, was born in 1971 in Angola during the Portuguese administration. He studied law and has a post-graduate degree in contemporary Portuguese literature. mãe’s poetry books are collected in the volumecontabilidade (2010). His four novels are: a máquina de fazer espanhóis (2010); o apocalipse dos trabalhadores (2008); o remorso de baltazar


serapião (2006), which won the José Saramago Prize in 2007; and o nosso reino (2004). mãe writes about literature, art, and music for several magazines and newspapers in Portugal, and has a column called Autobiografia imaginária/Imaginary autobiography in Jornal de Letras.mãe recently became the vocalist of the pop group Governo (www.myspace.com/ogoverno).

Brian Evenson is the author of ten books of fiction, most recently the limited edition novella Baby Leg, published by New York Tyrant Press in 2009. In 2009 he also published the novel Last Days (which won the American Library Association’s award for Best Horror Novel of 2009) and the story collection Fugue State, both of which were on Time Out New York’s top books of 2009. His novel The Open Curtain (Coffee House Press) was a finalist for an Edgar Award and an IHG Award. His work has been translated into French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese and Slovenian. He lives and works in Providence, Rhode Island, where he directs Brown University’s Literary Arts Program. Other books include The Wavering Knife (which won the IHG Award for best story collection), Dark Property, and Altmann’s Tongue. He has translated work by Christian Gailly, Jean Frémon, Claro, Jacques Jouet, Eric Chevillard, Antoine Volodine, and others. He is the recipient of an O. Henry Prize as well as an NEA fellowship.

JUNE 23, Thursday (national holiday)

11.00 am | 12.30 pm LECTURE & DISCUSSION with LUÍSA COSTA GOMESCentro Nacional de Cultura, Largo do Picadeiro, 10 (door next to the street Café “Café No Chiado”)

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Luísa Costa Gomes was born June 1954 in Lisbon. She published seven novels, seven collections of short stories, two librettoes, 11 plays and several books for children. Her awards include the Literary Award of the D. Dinis Foundation (Casa de Mateus) for the epistolary novel O pequeno mundo (“Small world”) in 1990; the Máxima Magazine Prize for Literature in 1994, for the novel Olhos Verdes (“Green Eyes”); the Eça de Queirós Award (City of Lisbon, awarded by City Hall) for the book of plays Ubardo and My Australia in 1995; the Prize Camilo Castelo Branco for the Short Story Collection “Contos Outra Vez” awarded by the Portuguese Writers Association (Associação Portuguesa de Escritores) in 1998. She has also translated Duras, Gertrude Stein, Alfred Jarry, and others.


6.30 pm | 8.00 pm PUBLIC LECTURE: L – Lisboa, Literature, Life with JACINTO LUCAS PIRESCETAPS (Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies) Auditorium, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Avenida de Berna, 26-C

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Jacinto Lucas Pires was born in Oporto in 1974 and now lives in Lisbon. He is the author of two novels, Do sol and Perfeitos milagres. He won the Prémio Europa–David Mourão-Ferreira (Bari University, Italy/Instituto Camões, Portugal) in 2008. His other works include Assobiar em público, a short-story collection; Azul-turquesa, a novella; and Livro usado, a travel book about Japan. He has also written theatre plays (Writing, speaking, Extras andSagrada família, among others) and film scripts, and has directed two short films. Pires plays with the music band Os Quais and writes a column about soccer in Jornal de Notícias, a major Portuguese newspaper.

JUNE 24, Friday


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2.30 pm | 4.30 pm EXCURSION: to Arpad Szenes/Vieira da Silva Foundation with LUÍS SANTOS FERROPraça das Amoreiras, 56

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6.30 pm | 8.00 pm ALBERTO DE LACERDA TRIBUTE EVENING with SCOTT LAUGHLIN, LUÍS AMORIM DE SOUSA and ALFREDO CALDEIRA. READINGS FROM LACERDA’S WORK by JORGE SILVA MELO and KIM ADDONIZIO.Fundação Mário Soares, Rua de S. Bento, 176

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The Portuguese poet Alberto de Lacerda (1928-2007) was born on the island of Mozambique and died in London. He lived, in his own words, “for friendship and the things of the spirit.” This is reflected in his amazing estate which was brought to Portugal in its entirety and deposited for treatment and processing


at the Mário Soares Foundation in Lisbon. It is a vast collection of books, records, photos, manuscripts, letters and works of art that crosses cultural boundaries and approximates many of the most creative spirits of his time. Just as he said: friendships and the things of the spirit.

JUNE 25, Saturday

9.00 am | 4.00 pm EXCURSION AND WALKING TOUR to Cascais guided by SCOTT LAUGHLIN and LUÍS AMORIM DE SOUSAWalkCasa das Histórias | Paula Rego Museum

Departure by train, from Cais do Sodré train station[lunch will be included for an extra 15 euro / 17 euro for meal and wine; sign-up for this walk on the sign-up sheets during the orientation]

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Take a walk near the poetic seaside town of Cascais with Scott Laughlin and the Portuguese poet and memoirist Luís Amorim de Sousa. We will stroll along cobblestone streets, hear about the history of the town, and stop to watch the boats bobbing lazily in the sea as some brave bathers slip into the Atlantic. We’ll walk out to the point to see the old fort and take in the views of the mouth of the Tagus and the great sea beyond. Then we will make our way to Casa das Histórias, the museum dedicated to the great Portuguese painter, Paula Rego, who is a close friend of Luis’ (and was a very close friend of Alberto de Lacerda’s). There, we’ll have a private tour of both Rego’s work and the building, which has garnered many awards. We’ll lunch at the museum, and then make our way back through the labyrinthine streets of Cascais to the train back to Lisbon.

Cascais is a cosmopolitan suburb of the Portuguese capital and one of the richest municipalities in Portugal. The former fishing village gained fame as a resort for Portugal’s royal family in the late 19th century and early 20th century. Nowadays, it is a popular vacation spot for both Portuguese and foreign tourists, surrounded by popular beaches, such as Guincho Beach to the west, and the lush Sintra mountains to the north.

The Casa das Histórias Paula Rego was designed by the architect Eduardo Souto de Moura (Pritzker Architecture Prize 2011). The building makes use of certain


aspects of the region’s historical architecture, which is here reinterpreted in a contemporary way. It can be immediately recognized thanks to its two pyramid-shaped towers and the red-colored concrete used in its construction. The building’s design is fully in keeping with the artist’s wishes, and it was Paul Rego herself who was responsible for the choice of architect.

Paula Rego was born in Lisbon on 26 January 1935. She grew up in a republican and liberal family, linked to both English and French culture, and studied at St. Julian’s School in Carcavelos, spending her childhood and adolescence in Estoril. In the 1950s, her father encouraged her to pursue her artistic career away from the Portugal of Salazar’s dictatorship, and Paula Rego enrolled at the prestigious Slade School of Fine Art in London, aged just 17. Having divided her time between Portugal and London throughout the 1960s, Paula Rego settled permanently in London in 1976. However, she continued to visit Portugal frequently, returning mostly to her family home in Ericeira. This house was to become a regular feature of her artistic work, since it held many memories and evoked images relating to a certain “Portuguese culture” she associated with her childhood. In 1990, she was appointed the first Associated Artist of the National Gallery in London.

She has held countless solo and retrospective exhibitions at leading international museums and galleries, as well as winning a host of awards and prizes. She currently lives and works in London, and is represented by Marlborough Fine Art.

6.00 pm READING: COLSON WHITEHEAD (in collaboration with Festival Silêncio)Cinema São Jorge – hall 2, Avenida da Liberdade 175

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Colson Whitehead is the author of the novels The Intuitionist, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway award; John Henry Days, which won the Young Lions Fiction Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Prize and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; and Apex Hides the Hurt, which won the PEN/Oakland award. He has also written a book of essays about his home town, The Colossus of New York. His most recent novel, Sag Harbor, was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner. Whitehead’s reviews, essays, and fiction have appeared in a number of publications, such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, Harper’s and Granta. A recipient of a Whiting Writers Award and a MacArthur Fellowship, he lives in Brooklyn.


JUNE 26, Sunday

9.00 am | 2.30 pm JOSÉ SARAMAGO THEMED EXCURSION to the National Palace of Mafra, guided by CARLOS REIS[an extra fee will apply; sign-up for this excursion on the sign-up sheets during the orientation]Departure by bus from Cais do Sodré (Carris bus stop close to the river)lunch in Mafra

Cais do Sodré

The National Palace of Mafra is one of the most striking Baroque monuments to be found in Portugal. Its construction symbolizes the Absolutist rule of D. João V. The palace has some 1,200 rooms of which the most impressive is the Library, which dates from the 18th century and contains some 36,000 books and manuscripts. In addition there is the Convent, an important and significant part of the religious heritage of Portugal. However, the most stunning feature of the Palace site is the Basilica, considered to be a masterpiece of Baroque architecture and famed for its Carillion – famous throughout the world for its sheer size and beauty.

Carlos Reis was born in 1950. At the University of Coimbra (Faculty of Arts), besides teaching Portuguese Literature, Literature Theory, Spanish Literature and Eça de Queirós Studies, he holds several posts: he was director of the Institute for Spanish Studies and director of the Institute for Portuguese Language and Literature. In 2002 he was appointed scientific coordinator of the Centre for Portuguese Literature. As a visiting professor, he taught in several foreign universities, namely University of Salamanca, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Tinker Visiting Professor), University of Santiago de Compostela, and the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth (Endowed Chair Professor). He was a member of the Portuguese Institute for Distance Teaching’s Scientific Council and participated in the foundation of Universidade Aberta where he was a Pro-Rector for the Promotion and Diffusion of Portuguese Language and Culture. He has published more than fifteen books, in Portugal and abroad (Spain, Germany, France and Brazil), his main research focuseed on Eça de Queirós and on his generation’s literature. Between 1998 and 2002 he was the director of the National Library of Portugal. Between 1999-2001 he was president of the International Association of Lusitanists. Reis is honoris causa doctor by Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), comendador of Isabel the Catholic Order (Spain), benefactor of the Real Gabinete Português de Leitura do Rio de Janeiro, member (correspondent) and of the Academia Lusíada de Ciências, Letras e Artes


de São Paulo, member (correspondent) of the Real Academia de la Lengua (Spain), comendador of Santiago da Espada Order (Portugal). In 1996 he was awarded the prize Jacinto do Prado Coelho, from the International Association of Literary Critics. Since May 2006, he has been the rector of Universidade Aberta.

4.00 pm | 5.30 pm READING, LECTURE & DISCUSSION SALLY ASHTON and JOSIP NOVAKOVICHCentro Nacional de CulturaLargo do Picadeiro, 10 (door next to the street Café “Café No Chiado”)

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Sally Ashton is Editor-in-Chief of the DMQ Review, an online journal featuring poetry and art. Two poems from DMQ were selected for inclusion in Best American Poetry 2011. She is author of Her Name Is Juanita (Kore Press 2009) and These Metallic Days (Main Street Rag). Her first full length collection Some Odd Afternoon was released from BlazeVOX in 2010. Her poems also appear in An Introduction to the Prose Poem and Breathe: 101 Contemporary Odes, as well as journals such as Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics, 5am, Mississippi Review and Poet Lore. She is the recipient of an Artist Fellowship in Poetry from the Arts Council of Silicon Valley. Ashton earned her MFA at Bennington Writing Seminars. She teaches creative writing at San José State University, frequent private poetry workshops, and lives in Los Gatos, California. She blogs at www.poetryonastick.blogspot.com and is a guest blogger for the Best American Poetry blog (http://thebestamericanpoetry.typepad.com/the_best_american_poetry/).

Josip Novakovich moved from Croatia to the U.S. at the age of twenty. He has published a novel, April Fool’s Day, three story collections (Infidelities: Stories of War and Lust, Yolk, and Salvation and Other Disasters) and two collections of narrative essays as well as two books of practical criticism, including Fiction Writers Workshop. His work was anthologized in Best American Poetry, the Pushcart Prize collection, and O. Henry Prize Stories. He has received the Whiting Writer’s Award, a Guggenheim fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, the Ingram Merrill Award, and an American Book Award, and he has been a writing fellow of the New York Public Library. He has taught at Bard, Die Freie Universitaet in Berlin, Penn State, and now, Concordia University in Montreal.


6.30 | 8.00 pm FILM SCREENING of Com que Voz (With What Voice) followed by Q&A with Director NICHOLAS OULMAN and Producer BETH ANNE CALABRO-OULMAN Centro Nacional de CulturaLargo do Picadeiro, 10 (door next to the street Café “Café No Chiado”)

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Nicholas Oulman was raised in both Lisbon and Paris. He began his career in film working on Portuguese feature films as a Second Assistant Director. He became a partner in Opus Films, a Lisbon based production company. Interested in pursuing directing, Oulman moved to New York City. He attended film school and directed two short films: Stolen Happiness and A Little Tenderness. After working on several independent projects, he returned to Lisbon. Oulman directed Com Que Voz, his first feature. The film won the prize, Best First Portuguese Feature Film at doclisboa in 2009. It was also selected at the Ourense International Film Festival in 2010. The film was released theatrically in January 2011, and was well-received by the press. It was recently shown on RTP 2, a Portuguese TV station.

Beth Anne Calabro-Oulman attended both acting and film school. Later, she landed a job at Miramax Films during the golden Weinstein era. By the age of thirty, she was promoted to Vice President of Production and Development. Thereafter, she moved to Lisbon, Portugal. Miramax offered her an independent producing deal, which she accepted, and worked on for two years. During that period, she had two children and took some time off to be a full-time mother. Currently, she is working on a couple of writing projects. She lives at the Quinta São Mateus, in Lisbon, with her family.

Com Que Voz follows the life of Alain Oulman: a Renaissance Man, composer, literary editor, theater director, and political figure. Oulman was born in Lisbon, 1928. He was raised in a Jewish French family against the dramatic backdrop of World War Two. After living in New York City (where he met and formed a lasting friendship with James Baldwin), he returned to Lisbon and began a lifelong collaboration with Amalia Rodrigues, the world renowned fado singer. In addition to providing Amalia with some of her greatest music, he revolutionized the fado form. Oulman composed music using the words of the Portuguese poets as lyrics. Poets such as Camoes, Pedro Homen de Mello, Manuel Alegre and Alexandre O’Neil were brought to the people for the first time. After directing several successful plays, Oulman was arrested by the Pide, the Portuguese secret police,


for his leftist leanings. Jailed, he was later deported to Paris. In Paris, he began his literary career as an editor at Calmann-Levy, the illustrious French publishing house. He worked with such luminary writers as: Amos Oz, Patricia Highsmith, and Catherine Clement. Oulman died in 1990, at the age of 62.

JUNE 27, Monday


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2.30 pm | 4.00 pm LECTURE & DISCUSSION: PORTUGUESE LITERATURE: FIVE CAVEATS with MIGUEL TAMENCentro Nacional de CulturaLargo do Picadeiro, 10 (door next to the street Café “Café No Chiado”)

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Miguel Tamen specializes in philosophy and literature and Portuguese literature. His interests include the philosophy of language, interpretation, and moral philosophy, as well as aesthetics. He is Professor of Literary Theory and Chair of the Program in Literary Theory, University of Lisbon. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago since 2000. His first book won the Portuguese PEN Club Essay Award (1987). He is the author of six books, among which are Friends of Interpretable Objects (Harvard UP, 2001) and The Matter of the Facts (Stanford UP, 2000). Two more books are forthcoming. In 2010/11 he was a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow at the National Humanities Center.

6.00 pm | 8.30 pm PARTICIPANT OPEN MIC READING HOSTED BY THE SAN-FRANCISCO BASED PORTUGUESE ARTISTS COLONY READING SERIES [sign-up for the reading and “live writing” segments on the sign-up sheets during the orientation]Grémio Literário, Rua Ivens, 37

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JUNE 28, Tuesday

10.00 am | 12.30 pm LECTURE & DISCUSSION: THE PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE IN THE WORLD by JOSÉ EDUARDO AGUALUSATeatro São Luiz, Jardim de Inverno / (Winter Garden), Rua António Maria Cardoso 58

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José Eduardo Agualusa, born 1960 in Huambo, Angola, spends most of his time in Portugal, Angola and Brazil, working as a writer and journalist. His books have been translated into more than 20 languages. So far four of his books have been translated into English. He also wrote three theatre plays, “W generation”, “Chovem amores na Rua do Matador”, this one together with Mia Couto and “O monólogo”. He received three literary grants. One from the Centro Nacional da Cultura in 1997 to write Creole, the second one in 2000 from the Fundação do Oriente, allowed him to stay three months in Goa and write Um estranho em Goa and the third one in 2001 from Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst, allowed him to live one year in Berlin where he wrote O Ano em que Zumbi Tomou o Rio . In the begining of 2009 Agualusa completed his new novel Barroco tropical in Amsterdam, while living in the residency for writers, a joint initiative by the Dutch Foundation for Literature and the Foundation for the Production and Translation of Dutch Literature. In 2006 he started the Brazilian book publisher Língua Geral, which only edits books originally written in Portuguese.

// 2.00 pm | 5.30 pm WORKSHOP Contemporary Portuguese American Poetic Strands – with MARGARIDA VALE DE GATOUniversidade de Lisboa, Room 1.26


// 2.30 pm | 5.00 pm READING NUNO JÚDICECETAPS (Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies) Auditório 2 (3rd floor), Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Avenida de Berna, 26-C

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Nuno Júdice was born in Mexilhoeira Grande, Algarve. He is a Professor of Literature at the Universidade Nova in Lisbon, where he lives. He is currently the Editor of the Gulbenkian Foundation literary magazine, Colóquio-Letras. He published his first poetry book in 1972, followed by many others and was the recipient of several renowned poetry prizes. Throughout the years,


he has also published extensively as a novelist, an essayist and a literary critic. His poetry books since 2000 include: Poesia Reunida (1967-2000), 2000, Pedro, Lembrando Inês, 2001, Cartografia de Emoções, 2001, O Estado dos Campos, 2003, Geometria Variável, 2005, As Coisas Mais Simples, 2006, A Matéria do Poema, 2008, Guia de Conceitos Básicos, 2010.

6.30 pm | 8.00 pm READING AND Q&A with ANTÓNIO LOBO ANTUNESFLAD – Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento (Luso-American Development Foundation )Auditorium, Rua Sacramento à Lapa, 21 (Taxi is the best way to get to FLAD; but as with all events, groups will leave from CNC 45 mins before start time)

António Lobo Antunes is widely considered one of the most important living writers in the world. He was born in Lisbon. At the age of seven he decided to be a writer, but when he was 16, his father sent him to medical school. During this time he never stopped writing. By the end of his education he had to join the Army, to take part in the war in Angola. It was there, in a military hospital, that he took an interest in the subjects of death and the other. He returned from Africa in 1973. The Angolan war for independence later became the subject for many of his novels. He worked many months in Germany and Belgium and, in 1979, after his divorce in 1976, he published his first novel - Memória de Elefante Elephant’s Memory – where he told the story of his separation. Due to the success of his first novels, António Lobo Antunes decided to partly give up medicine and to devote his evenings to writing. He has been practicing psychiatry since then though, mainly at the outpatient’s unit at the Hospital Miguel Bombarda of Lisbon. His style is considered to be very dense, heavily influenced by William Faulkner and Louis-Ferdinand Céline.


JUNE 29, Wednesday

10.00 am | 12.30 pm WORKSHOPCentro Nacional de Cultura, Rua António Maria Cardoso, 68

Baixa-Chiado

2.30 pm | 4.00 pm LIVE POETS SOCIETY – LITERATURE AS A PERFORMING ACT AND THE LITERATURE OF MY FELLOW CONTEMPORANEAN WRITERS with PATRÍCIA PORTELATeatro São Luiz, Jardim de Inverno / (Winter Garden), Rua António Maria Cardoso 58

Baixa-Chiado

Patrícia Portela studied set and costume design, sound design, scriptwriting and documentary in Lisbon, at the European Film College in Denmark, and elsewhere. She has written and coordinated several performances including Operação Cardume Rosa, T5, Lan Tao, and Wasteband. She has also published four books, including Odilia (2007) and Para Cima e Não Para Norte (2008). A September 2010 piece, The Private Collection of Acácio Nobre, is also forthcoming as a book. Portela’s work has won numerous awards, including the Prize Acarte/Madalena Azeredo Perdigão for Flatland I, a giant multimedia book. Her Flatland Trilogy won special mention from the association of Portuguese critics for its dramaturgy, text, and use of space. In 2009 she received funding from the Ministry of Culture to develop her research on trans-disciplinary projects under the auspices of the Prado production house.

7.00 pm | 9.15 pm FILM SCREENING OF THE LOVEBIRDS (7 PM – 8.30 PM) FOLLOWED BY Q&A WITH DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER JOHN FREY (8.30 pm – 9.15 pm)Cinemateca Portuguesa, Rua Barata Salgueiro 39

Avenida

John Frey is a graduate of the William Esper Studio for Actors in New York City (Meisner Technique) under the teaching of William Esper, and has worked as an actor in theater, film, and television in Europe and the United States for the past fifteen years. He has also taught acting in Lisbon, Copenhagen, and New York City. John is also a screenwriter who wrote the screenplay for “The Lovebirds,”


shot in Lisbon, Portugal in 2007. “The Lovebirds” garnered the Best Screenplay, First Prize Award at the 2008 International Film Festival in Ourense, Spain and was also awarded a special Jury First Prize Award for Best Film at the Fantasporto International Film Festival, Portugal. John also co-wrote the feature films “The Collection” and “Delgado.” The latter is based on the assassination of the Portuguese General Humberto Delgado and will begin shooting in Portugal in February, 2011.

JUNE 30, Thursday

9.00 am | 12.30 pm EXCURSION Eça de Queiroz-themed tour to Sintra with HELENA TOMAZ and CRISTINA BRAUMANN[an extra fee will apply; lunch in Sintra will also be extra; sign-up for this walk on the sign-up sheets during the orientation] Departure by bus from Cais do Sodré (Carris bus stop close to the river)

Cais do Sodré.

Sintra is a town in Sintra Municipality in Portugal, located in the Grande Lisboa subregion and the Lisbon Region. The town is a UNESCO World Heritage Site on account of its 19th century Romantic architecture. It has a population of c. 33,000 inhabitants. Sintra has become a major tourist attraction, with many day-trippers visiting from nearby Lisbon. Attractions include the fabulous Pena Palace (19th c.) and the castle Castelo dos Mouros (8th or 9th century, reconstructed in the 19th century) with a breath-taking view of the Sintra-Cascais Natural Park, and the summer residence of the kings of Portugal Palácio Nacional de Sintra (largely 15th/16th century), in the town itself. The Sintra Mountain Range, one of the largest parks in the Lisbon area, (Serra de Sintra) is also a major tourist attraction. In 1809 Lord Byron wrote to his friend Francis Hodgson, “I must just observe that the village of Cintra in Estremadura is the most beautiful in the world.”

// 2.00 pm | 5.30 pm WORKSHOP Contemporary Portuguese American Poetic Strands – with MARGARIDA VALE DE GATO Universidade de Lisboa



// 3.00 pm | 4.30 pm LECTURE & DISCUSSION: THE CREATION OF CHARACTERS AND CONFRONTATION WITH THE EXISTING WORLD with POSSIDÓNIO CACHAPACentro Nacional de CulturaLargo do Picadeiro, 10 (door next to the street Café “Café No Chiado”)

Baixa-Chiado

Possidonio Cachapa is a writer, screenwriter and director. He is the author of several books, namely, the novels, Maternal Gentleness, Travel to the Heart of Birds, and The White World of Rabbit-Boy. He’s directed several short films – Holes of God, una Lacrima caduta, and most recently, O NYLON DA MINHA ALDEIA, among others. He also worked in television programs and documentaries. In this latter category, he wrote and directed the documentary Farewell The Wind, which competed in the Lisbon Doc Film Festival, among other festival and special screenings. His work is translated widely.

6.30 pm | 8.00 pm READING PLUS Q&A on “Fernando Pessoa” with RICHARD ZENITHCETAPS (Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies) Auditorium, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Avenida de Berna, 26-C

Praça de Espanha

Born in Washington DC, Richard Zenith is a long-time resident of Portugal, where he works as a free-lance writer, translator, researcher and critic. He has prepared numerous editions of Fernando Pessoa’s work and translated much of his prose and poetry into English (A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems, The Book of Disquiet, The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa and other titles). He has also translated poetry by the Galician-Portuguese troubadours, Luís de Camões, Cesário Verde, Sophia de Mello Breyner and contemporary Portuguese poets. His Education by Stone: Selected Poems, by Brazil’s João Cabral de Melo Neto, won the 2006 translation award from the Academy of American Poets. Zenith’s fiction translations include novels by António Lobo Antunes, José Luandino Vieira and José Luís Peixoto. Author of a Fotobiografia de Fernando Pessoa, he has also published poems and a collection of short stories, Terceiras Pessoas.


JULY 1, FRIDAY

10.00 am | 12.30 pm WORKSHOPCentro Nacional de Cultura, Rua António Maria Cardoso, 68

Baixa-Chiado

2.30 pm | 4.00 pm READING with JOSÉ LUÍS PEIXOTO and KIM ADDONIZIOCentro Nacional de CulturaLargo do Picadeiro, 10 (door next to the street Café “Café No Chiado”)

Baixa-Chiado

José Luís Peixoto is one of Portugal’s most acclaimed and bestselling young novelists. He was born in 1974 in Galveias, in the region of Alentejo (Portugal). Has studied Modern languages and literatures in Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Since 2000, Peixoto has published ten titles (4 novels, 3 fiction books and 3 poetry collections). He is three-times a winner of the Jovens Criadores Prize. His first novel “Nenhum Olhar” (published as “Blank Gaze” in the UK by Bloomsbury and as “The Implacable Order of Things” in the USA by Doubleday/Anchor/ Random House) was shortlisted for all major literary awards in Portugal and won the Jose Saramago Award, delivered every two years for the best novel written in all Portuguese-speaking countries. ‘Nenhum Olhar’ (‘Blank Gaze’) was selected by the Financial Times as one of their best books of 2007. In the USA, it was a Barnes and Noble Discover Great new writers selection. In Portugal, it was selected by Expresso as one of their best books of the decade. Peixoto’s first fiction, ‘Morreste-me’ (published in the UK as ‘You died on me’, Warwick Review, 2010) was selected by Visão as one of their best books of the decade. In 2003, he wrote the short-story collection ‘Antidote’ in a joint project with the heavy metal band Moonspell. In 2007, his novel ‘Cemitério de Pianos’ (published as ‘The Piano Cemetery’ in the UK) won the Calamo Award for the best translated novel published in Spain. In 2008, he received the Daniel Faria Poetry Award. Peixoto’s poetry and short-stories have appeared in a great number of anthologies in dozens of languages.


Kim Addonizio is the author of five collections of poetry including Tell Me, a 2000 National Book Award Finalist. Her work has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, two NEA Fellowships, the John Ciardi Lifetime Achievement Award, and other honors. Addonizio’s other books include two novels, Little Beauties and My Dreams Out in the Street; and a book of stories, In the Box Called Pleasure. With Cheryl Dumesnil, she co-edited Dorothy Parker’s Elbow: Tattoos on Writers, Writers on Tattoos.

4.15 pm FILM SCREENING of “The Art of Amália” by BRUNO DE ALMEIDA, Director/Screenwriter.Centro Nacional de CulturaLargo do Picadeiro, 10 (door next to the street Café “Café No Chiado”)

Bruno de Almeida is a New York-based filmmaker. Of Portuguese origin, he was born in Paris in March 1965. He grew up in Lisbon and moved to New York in 1985 where he has been living and working ever since. He is fluent in five languages and has made films in the US, Europe, and Latin America.

8.00 pm FAREWELL RECEPTIONHotel do Chiado, Rua Nova do Almada 114

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