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# paulo da costa

bilingual author

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- [Blog](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/blog-2/) - The Green and Purple Skin of the World - New short-story collection Broadview Press / Freehand Books April 2013 “In any skin purple is a heavy tone that penetrates to the core.” paulo da costa’s stories get under your skin, bruise your consciousness with their exploration of the forces that hold us together, not always
- [José Tolentino Mendonça - Three poems in translation](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/jose-tolentino-mendonca-three-poems-in-translation/) - José Tolentino Mendonça (n. 1965) is one of the most original voices of Portuguese contemporary literature. He is also an Archivist and Librarian at the Vatican Library. Freesias José Tolentino Mendonça translated by paulo da costa ( Published in Matrix n. 60 - 2001 ) Freesias are flowers smelling of tea and she, at thirty seven,
- [Ana Paula Tavares - 4 Poems in Translation](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/ana-paula-tavares-4-poems-in-translation/) - TERRACOTTA Ana Paula Tavares translated by paulo da costa published in World Literature Today 2009 Open the earth let me see myself in the mirror and find my place in emptiness among three hundred thousand terracotta virgins Open the earth, my friend this land woven of a thousand sand colours drifting from the north seeds
- [Gary Geddes - poema](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/gary-geddes-poema/) - Sandra Lee Scheuer ( Assassinada na Universidade do Estado de Kent, a 4 de Maio de 1970, pela Guarda Nacional de Ohio ) Gary Geddes Poderias tê-la encontrado num sábado à noite a talhar círculos exactos, pela esquerda, no rinque de patinagem Moon-Glo, ou a caminhar apressada entre a cidade universitária e a casa verde
- [Daniel Faria - Two Poems in Translation](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/daniel-faria-poems-in-translation/) - Considered by many one of the most promising voices of the nineties in Portuguese poetry Daniel Faria was a novice at the Singeverga Monastery in Portugal. He died unexpectedly in 1999 at the age of 28 and from complications arising from a fall in his bathroom quarters. He had until then published two books of
- [Al Berto - Four poems in translation](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/al-berto-four-poems-in-translation/) - Al Berto was the pseudonym used by the Portuguese poet, painter, editor and cultural programmer Alberto Raposo Pidwell Tavares (January 11, 1948 – June 13, 1997). You were still young Al Berto translated by paulo da costa (Published in Matrix 60, 2000) i search for you amidst the written papers tossed to the bottom of
- [2025 Author in Residence @ AWC](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/2025-author-in-residence-awc/)
- [4 poemas na diVersos n.º 38](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/4-poemas-na-diversos-n-o-38/) - Com diversos outros motivos de interesse, o n.º 38 da série DiVersos - Poesia e Tradução destaca em capa uma antologia de 40 páginas do poeta brasileiro Dante Milano (1899-1991), pouco conhecido em Portugal (e também no Brasil!), um dos maiores poetas brasileiros do século XX. Dele disse o poeta Carlos Drummond de Andrade, esse
- [2024 James H. Gray Awards for Short Nonfiction](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/2024-james-h-gray-awards-for-short-nonfiction/) - A beautiful evening celebrating the incredible writing talent in the province of Alberta. Congratulations to all finalists, and a shout out to Patti Edgar and Thomas Wharton in my own non-fiction / essay category. 2024 James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction Jury Remarks: paulo da costa's "The Stones That Anchor Us" is a touching
- [Writer-in-Residence for SWG in February 6-9, 2025](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/writer-in-residence-for-swg-in-february-6-9-2025/) - The Saskatchewan Writers Guild is pleased to announce paulo da costa as the Virtual Writer-in-Residence for our Virtual Facilitated Retreat, happening on February 6-9, 2025. Born in Angola, and raised in Portugal, paulo da costa is a writer, editor and translator living in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies (Moh’kins’tsis / Calgary, Alberta). He is
- [2024 Outstanding Calgary Artist Award](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/2024-outstanding-calgary-artist-award/) - I had an incredible October evening at the Jack Singer Concert Hall. Calgary honoured me with the 2024 Outstanding Calgary Artist Award. It was memorable!!! Thank you to Louis and Doug Mitchell, the Banff Center for the Arts, CADA and the City of Calgary and our creative arts community for awarding me this hugely meaningful
- [Calgary Public Library's Author in Residence](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/calgary-public-librarys-author-in-residence/) - Introducing Calgary Public Library’s 2024 Author in Residence paulo da costa! As a well-versed author, paulo da costa has had poetry, fiction, and non-fiction pieces published in literary magazines around the world. He is a writer, editor, and translator, with accolades including being a three-time recipient of the James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction.
- [Free the Caged Melros: A Review of trust the bluer skies in Prism International - by Irene Marques](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/free-the-caged-melros-a-review-of-trust-the-bluer-skies-in-prism-international-by-irene-marques/) - Check out this insightful and in-depth review of Trust the Bluer Skies featured in Prism International Magazine out of UBC and Vancouver. Available to be read on their website. When was the last time you read a thoughtful review that was 1600 words long? My gratitude to Toronto scholar, Irene Marques, who for years has
- [Interviewed by Prairie Books Now](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/interviewed-by-prairie-books-now/) - Prairie Books Now just published an interview with me in their latest magazine issue. This issue can also be read on line or downloaded for free here : https://prairiebooksnow.ca/issues Thank you to PBN and Luis Reis for taking an interest in this book on Fatherhood. Enjoy. More great books and authors are also to be
- [Teaching / Mentoring Authors at Alexandra Writers' Centre](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/teaching-mentoring-authors-at-alexandra-writers-centre/) - I'll be one of the Alexandra Writers' Centre mentors for their 2025 Author Development Program (from January to June 2025). If you are working on a manuscript of Fiction (Flash, Short-stories or a Novel), Creative Non-Fiction (including Memoir) or Poetry, I would be happy to work with you under the auspices of this program. I
- [Trust the Bluer Skies Promo Video](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/trust-the-bluer-skies-promo-video/) - Thank you to reader and friend Camilo Florez who created and gifted me with this Book Promo video as a way to bring more awareness to my new book. Please pass it around if you enjoyed reading Trust the Bluer Skies (and your armchair journey to Portugal). And if you are a TikToker feel free
- [paulo da costa interviewed by the Calgary Herald](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/paulo-da-costa-interviewed-by-the-calgary-herald/) - Check out today's Calgary Herald and their book section. They feature an article and interview about my fatherhood memoir. Thank you Eric Volmers for being interested in Trust the Bluer Skies and for being such a great supporter of local creatives in our city. Obrigado. https://calgaryherald.com/entertainment/books/letters-to-a-son-calgary-author-offers-meditations-on-fatherhood-with-memoir-trust-the-bluer-skies
- [CBC Books recommends Trust the Bluer Skies for Father's Day](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/cbc-books-recommends-trust-the-bluer-skies-for-fathers-day/) - Being a father can be both a challenging and rewarding part of life, shaped by their own experiences and parents. This Father's Day (June 16 2024), check out 20 Canadian books of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and more that share the stories of fathers and father-like figures. Head to cbcbook.ca for more.
- [CBC Radio's Day Break Interviews paulo on Father's Day](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/cbc-radios-day-break-interviews-paulo-on-fathers-day/) - https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-95-daybreak-alberta This coming Father's Day - Sunday June 16th 2024 at 8 AM - listen to Paul Karchut on CBC Day Break interviewing me about my new book: Trust the Bluer Skies - Meditations on Fatherhood. Or tune into the podcast of this radio show at your leisure. The podcast will go up that Sunday
- [New Sudden Fiction in Queens Quarterly](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/new-sudden-fiction-in-queens-quarterly/) - Check out my newest short-story in the spring issue of Queen's Quarterly. It was fun to write and return to the Himalayan landscape.
- [New Story in fillingStation](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/new-story-in-fillingstation/) - Check out my new short-story in issue #83 of fillingStation Magazine. My thanks to fiction editor Tasnuva Hayden for taking a chance on this linguistically-playful story. Check out the other contributors and work in this Language themed issued. https://fillingstation.myshopify.com/products/filling-station-issue-82 The LANGUAGE issue, featuring new work from: Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán, Matthew Barron, James Braun, Megan Callahan,
- [Giving Away 20 copies of Trust the Bluer Skies](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/giving-away-20-copies-of-trust-the-bluer-skies/) - Goodreads Book Giveaway Trust the Bluer Skies by paulo da costa Giveaway ends March 03, 2024. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter Giveaway
- [Short-listed for the 2024 WGA James H. Gray Award](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/short-listed-for-the-2024-wga-james-h-gray-award/) - Congratulations to the finalists and to everyone who had works submitted to the 2024 Alberta Literary Awards. My essay, The Stones that Anchor Us, and published in 2023 by Queen's Quarterly has been short-listed for: James H. Gray Awards for Short Nonfiction paulo da costa – The Stones that Anchor Us (Queens Quarterly) Patti Edgar
- [Foreword Magazine Review](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/foreword-magazine-review/) - AUTOBIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR Trust the Bluer Skies : Meditations on Fatherhood paulo da costa, University of Regina Press Softcover $24.95 (256pp) 978-0-88977-995-2 paulo da costa’s heartbreaking memoir Trust the Bluer Skies is a bittersweet ode to memories of lost times and places. The book explores da costa’s relationship with his four-year-old son, Koah, during a
- [Review of Bluer Skies by Lindsay Wincherauk](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/review-of-bluer-skies-by-lindsay-wincherauk/) - audio and written review - click to view
- [New Creative Essay](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/new-creative-essay/) - Please check out my creative essay, The Stones That Anchor Us in this just-released issue of Queen's Quarterly. This text explores the Xmas eve traditions in my family, and also broadly shared by many in this northern area of Portugal. Enjoy. https://www.queensu.ca/quarterly/stones-anchor-us
- [Reading by Five Alberta Authors](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/workshop-memoir-as-medicine-for-the-heart/) - Five Alberta authors to feature in North/West Passages online event marking 50th Anniversary of The Writers' Union of Canada For more information, interviews or photos, contact Jackie Carmichael at Carmichael dot Jacqueline at gmail dot com Five Alberta authors will feature in an upcoming online event marking the 50th Anniversary of The Writers' Union of Canada. North/West Passages
- [The Midwife of Torment & Other Stories by Paulo da Costa](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/the-midwife-of-torment-other-stories-by-paulo-da-costa/) - Book Review in Prairie Fire Jul 25, 2018 The author’s subtitle, “60 Sudden Fictions,” illuminates much of what a reader experiences in delving into Midwife of Torment: having entire life-narratives sprung fully grown upon the sensibilities, like Athena’s delivery from her father Zeus’s head to relieve a massive migraine. Spread out among six sections, da
- [James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/james-h-gray-award-for-short-nonfiction-2/) - Jury Remarks: “Enclosures” is a skilful study of the environment and the self as both manipulated and restricted by complex cultural expectations and the background of a fascist government. The elegant prose and moving scenes frame a beautiful story of struggling with the idea of freedom for humans and animals alike. The second-person narrative was
- [The Edge of Winter Exhibition – Art Walk](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/the-edge-of-winter-exhibition-art-walk/) - This Saturday, if you happen to be in the vicinity of the Crescent Heights area, and wish to enjoy a stroll in the Rotary Park, please join us on an art walk. We will be viewing and performing the work of Calgary writers and artists on display. On of my poems is featured, as well
- [WGA 2023 Literary Award Readings](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/wga-2023-literary-award-readings/) - Please join the Writers' Guild of Alberta for readings from twelve finalists of the various 2023 Alberta Literary Awards. Featuring short readings from Lareina Abbott, Paulo Da Costa, Marcello Di Cintio, Patti Edgar, Tasnuva Hayden, Kyra Koustrup, Kimberley McCullough, Seth Rasporich, Trevor Schmidt, Vivek Shraya (virtual), and Chris Turner. April 25 7:00pm - 9:00pm (MDT)
- [Enclosures, Short-Listed for the 2023 Alberta Literary Awards](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/enclosures-short-listed-for-the-2023-alberta-literary-awards/) - My creative non-fiction essay, Enclosures, published by Reckoning, has been short-listed for the James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction. Congratulations to the other two finalists as well. Marcello Di Cintio with “The Cowboy Exclaims” (Canadian Geographic) and Kyra Lark Koustrup with — “You and the Grass” (Freefall). If you are in Calgary please come and celebrate
- [Keynote Address & Teaching the Short Story State of Mind at AWC](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/keynote-address-teaching-the-short-story-state-of-mind-at-awc/) - Get Lit Writer Series - Alexandra Writers Centre With award-winning authors like Alice Munro, Haruki Murakami, George Saunders, Kurt Vonnegut, there is so much to love and learn. Spend a day Getting Lit on short stories. Learn craft, process, publishing and so much more. Guaranteed to put you in that Short Story State of Mind.
- [The Art of Micro-Fiction](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/the-art-of-micro-fiction/) - Tuesday March 21 2023 7-9 pm MT Sign Up Instructor: paulo da costa From one sentence-long to 1000 words stories, join paulo in learning the necessary skills to hone your writing craft in order to deliver a compact and compelling narrative. Learn to effectively distill a story down to its most impacting emotional moment. Successful
- [Writing mentorship with paulo da costa at AWC](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/writing-mentorship-with-paulo-da-costa-at-awc/) - Author Development Program (ADP) 2022/23 https://www.alexandrawriters.org/author-development-program.html Check out the details on how to work on your manuscript with me at the Alexandra Writers Centre during the 2023 ADP season. In person or remotely (anywhere in the country). Program Time Frame/Length: January 2023 - June 2023 (6 months) The program ends with a reading and celebration.
- [Grant(ed) – The Successful Grant](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/granted-the-successful-grant/) - Teaching Grant(ed) – The Successful Grant Instructor: paulo da costa $45.00 Tuesday March 7 7-9pm MT – on-line Sign Up MEMBER PRICE: $33.75 (with member coupon AWCSM25) NON-MEMBER PRICE: $45.00 Do the writing grants seem like an unattainable mirage? What are jurors evaluating in the application project? How to make your strongest proposal in this ultra competitive
- [O Perfume da Mentira em destaque nos Olhos nos Livros Blog](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/o-perfume-da-mentira-em-destaque-nos-olhos-nos-livros-blog/) - Eis que depois de uma pausa de dois meses para que pudessem ler os livros recomendados, aqui estamos com a edição do outono de 2022, que terá um livro por semana até meados de dezembro. Esta a recomendação de Manuela Marujo. Cada semana teremos uma diferente, com José Luís da Silva, João Martins, Manuela Marujo
- [New Sci-Fi Story in Mithila Review](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/new-sci-fi-story-in-mithila-review/) - Check out my new story in Mithila Review's special global Hopepunk issue of science fiction (and fantasy) devoted to positive and powerful character-driven stories that imagine an open and inclusive tech-empowered democratic future for all people, species and countries on Earth. Harefoot Express - Think Globally, Travel Locally. A story that takes place in Mohkínstsis,
- [DiVersos nº23 - «Poesia e Natureza» com paulo da costa, Reiner Kunze e Ricardo Lima](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/diversos-no23-poesia-e-natureza-com-paulo-da-costa-reiner-kunze-e-ricardo-lima/) - DiVersos, POESIA E NATUREZA. Neste número, os poemas de paulo da costa, Reiner Kunze e Ricardo Lima
- [Enclosures](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/enclosures/) - Check out this podcast from Reckoning Magazine where the editor Michael DeLuca talks about my essay Enclosures. You can read the complete text too or download the podcast to listen at your leisure ... whenever and wherever . Enjoy! https://reckoning.press/podcast-episode-18-enclosures/ https://reckoning.press/?powerpress_embed=3058-podcast&powerpress_player=mediaelement-audio Today I’m going to read you an essay by paulo da costa, “Enclosures”, from Check out this podcast from Reckoning Magazine where the editor Michael DeLuca talks about my essay Enclosures. You can read the complete text too or download the podcast to listen at your leisure ... whenever and wherever . Enjoy! https://reckoning.press/podcast-episode-18-enclosures/ https://reckoning.press/?powerpress_embed=3058-podcast&powerpress_player=mediaelement-audio Today I’m going to read you an essay by paulo da costa, “Enclosures”, from
- [New essay in Reckoning 6](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/new-essay-in-reckoning-6/) - Check out my new essay in this amazing USA based publication focusing on themes of environmental justice. Reckoning 6 Reckoning 6 – Print Edition Preorder $20.00 Add to cart Reckoning 6, edited by Aïcha Martine Thiam and Gabriela Santiago, addresses the intersection between social upheaval and environmental change. “[I]t’s like a brief closing of the
- [New creative essay in Queen's Quarterly](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/the-colours-of-happiness-a-new-creative-essay-published-in-the-winters-issue-of-queens-quarterly-review-from-queens-university-in-ontario-check-it-out/) - The Colours of Happiness, a new creative essay, published in the Winter issue of Queen's Quarterly Review (Queen's University in Ontario). Check it out. Winter 2021 Vol. 128 No. 4 From the Editor - Winter 2021 ~ James Carson Going for Ice at the Motel on Ocean Boulevard ~ Marc Plourde Lilac Clouds and Wind Chimes ~ Deidre Dwyer Crown of
- [New Audio Poem](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/new-audio-poem/) - Check out one of my audio poems in www.thismighthelp.ca ! For National Poetry Month enjoy these free short audio poems on the theme of resilience. There are poems by former Calgary poet laureates and by 35 other Calgary poets from the age 10 to seniors. There are experienced poets and people trying the form for
- [Poema na Bienal Internacional de Poesia de Oeiras](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/poema-na-bienal-internacional-de-poesia-de-oeiras/) - No âmbito da Bienal Internacional de Poesia de Oeiras a decorrer de 16 a 21 de Novembro 2021 aqui está a declamação de um dos meus poemas. https://youtu.be/bYchvlt0LkM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYchvlt0LkM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYchvlt0LkM
- [Antologia - Avós: Raízes e Nós](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/antologia-avos-raizes-e-nos/) - O meu texto, As Velas de Novembro, foi incluído na Antologia: Avós: Raízes e Nós, uma obra Comemorativa do Dia dos Avós e publicada em Julho de 2020. A antologia foi selecionada pela Aida Baptista, Ilda Januário e Manuela Marujo Excerto "... Encontrávamo-nos em Novembro, o mês mais triste, decorado de nuvens cinzentas a lavar
- [At Home in Two Cultures](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/at-home-in-two-cultures/) - A citizen of the world examines his multicultural identity paulo da costa, in conversation with Fernanda Viveiros In the words of Saint Augustine, “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” It could be said that writer paulo da costa has read many pages since immigrating to Canada
- [Entrevistado na revista Descendências](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/entrevistado-na-revista-descendencias/) - paulo da costa entrevistado em português na revista Descendências. Uma voz recente, graficamente bonita e importante divulgadora da cultura lusófona em todo o mundo. Inclui artigos de muito interesse sobre o escritor Fernando Namora, assim como uma entrevista alargada com o Ministro dos Negócios Estrangeiros, Augusto Santos Silva e muito, muito mais. Delicie-se aqui... https://descendencias.pt/paulo-da-costa/
- [New creative essay in Gavea-Brown](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/new-creative-essay-in-gavea-brown/) - GB.v42_01 I am in the good company of : ARTIGOS /ARTICLES 1 Vozes da décima ilha: Notas para a história da rádio em língua portuguesa na Califórnia - DINIZ BORGES 8 Visions of Festivities Thinking - PAUL J. MEDEIROS 31 Registo de luso-americanismos na escrita açoriana do século XIX - URBANO BETTENCOURT DIÁRIO /DIARY 33
- [James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/james-h-gray-award-for-short-nonfiction/) - WGA CNF Award HR Winners of the 2020 Alberta Literary Awards The Writers’ Guild of Alberta is pleased to announce the winners of the 2020 Alberta Literary Awards. This year’s award winners were announced in an online video release on June 4th. The video is available to watch on our Facebook page and YouTube channel.
- [Story on CKUA Radio](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/story-on-ckua-radio/) - This week’s Blindman Brewing Session Story features the work of Calgary-based writer, editor, and translator, Paulo da Costa. Inspired by his winter walks through McHugh Bluff, In Motion explores the natural forces that shape our human endeavours and relationships. Listen at CKUA: To listen to this growing collection of stories, or check out these beautiful Super
- [New creative essay in Riddle Fence](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/new-creative-essay-in-riddle-fence/) - New essay published in Riddle Fence, In Search of Spring. I am in the good company of Lindsay Bird, Alexandra Harvey, John Talbird, Beth Follet, Carmella Gray-Cosgrove and many more.
- [New poem in Our Times](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/new-poem-in-our-times/) - Poem - shooed out Visit the site here
- [New Creative Essay in Prairie Fire](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/new-creative-essay-in-prairie-fire/) - Fall 2020, Volume 41, No.3 $14.95 We’re all looking for a little more breathing space and something to hold on to during these troubled times. Living in a House on Fire asks how we live amidst the nameless despair that is constantly smouldering in the background of our lives. At times our despair rages like
- [La Piel Verde y Púrpura del Mundo](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/la-piel-verde-y-purpura-del-mundo/) - paulo da costa traducción de Mirta Rosenberg Monte das Lameiras, patio, tres semanas Querida mía: La mañana bosteza y suspira a través de los pulmones de los pájaros. Las armonías funden el delgado velo de escarcha que cubre el suelo. Empiezo el día en la escalera del frente, en bata, soplando burbujas de jabón.
- [New creative essay in Fiddlehead - Learning to Shave, Learning to Leave](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/new-creative-essay-in-fiddlehead-learning-to-shave-learning-to-leave/) - Fiddlehead Introduction 6 Sue Sinclair: Winter 2020 Editorial Creative Nonfiction 48 Sherry Coffey: Hiking the Fundy Footpath 71 paulo da costa: Learning to Shave, Learning to Leave Fiction 7 Emily Bossé: The Most Beautiful Woman in New Brunswick Coming to a Field Near You 26 Shaelin Bishop: Barefoot 64
- [Short-listed for the James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/short-listed-for-the-james-h-gray-award-for-short-nonfiction/) - The creative non-fiction “Learning to Shave, Learning to Leave” originally published by The Fiddlehead, has been short-listed for an Alberta Literary Award. Congratulations to all the finalists. James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction Paulo da Costa (Calgary) — “Learning to Shave, Learning to Leave” (The Fiddlehead) Jennifer Bowering Delisle (Edmonton) — “Abracadabra” (The Forge)
- [Focus On Victoria - Magazine - w/ author paulo da costa](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/focus-on-victoria-magazine-w-author-paulo-da-costa/) - An out-of-the-box thinker, writer, editor and translator paulo da costa believes in daring to be different for the social good.
- [The Group of Seven Reimagined: Contemporary Stories Inspired by Historic Canadian Paintings](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/the-group-of-seven-reimagined-contemporary-stories-inspired-by-historic-canadian-paintings/) - 'The Group of Seven Reimagined: Contemporary Stories Inspired by Historic Canadian Paintings' - including a Foreword by Jim & Sue Waddington, and amazing Flash Fiction by authors: Mike Blouin, Carol Bruneau, paulo da costa, Alfred DePew, Tamas Dobozy, Valerie Fox, Travis Good, Mark Anthony Jarman, JJ Lee, Brett Loney, Lorette C. Luzajic, Yael Eytan Maree,
- [ser português](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/ser-portugues/) - ser português é nascer com o fado ao pescoço viver de olhos ancorados ao alto mar, ansiar pela maré de partir ou pela onda do regresso viver enlatado entre mar e espanha exportar sardinhas ir à missa e esquecer o sermão é confessar-se a amigos de garrafa na mão é
- [Canadian Writers Abroad - reviews Midwife of Torment](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/canadian-writers-abroad-reviews-midwife-of-torment/) - The Midwife of Torment & Other Stories by paulo da costa is a book of short stories, or sudden fictions
- [Short-story in Compostela (Tesseracts Twenty) - Anthology](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/short-story-in-compostela-tesseracts-twenty-anthology/) - Compostela (Tesseracts Twenty) is an anthology of hard and soft science fiction stories that best represent a futuristic view of the sciences affecting humans
- [Flies](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/flies/) - Foot raised on the shoe-box, Senhor Osório sat at the entrance to the tavern enjoying the overdue shine. The question mark of his cane supported his thoughts as he rested his chin on the wrinkled knuckles clasping the wood. His gaze followed the blur of legs striding past. "Give it a good polish, Armando."
- [On Writing - Open Book interview with paulo da costa](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/on-writing-open-book-interview-with-paulo-da-costa/) - Interview in Open Book with paulo da costa
- [New essay in Queen's Quarterly](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/new-essay-in-queens-quarterly/) - essay by paulo da costa
- [All Lit Up - Flash Interview](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/all-lit-up-flash-interview/) - interview Canadian author on new book of short stories the midwife of torment
- [All My Relations: Reflections on Home](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/all-my-relations-reflections-on-home/) - paulo da costa, Nowick Gray and Heidi Erhardt poetic essays, music,, photographic reflections on home
- [New poem in CV2](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/new-poem-in-cv2/) - CV2 - Vol 39 - Issue 4 This issue brings you a conversation with one of Canada’s most innovative, not to mention outspoken, poets, George Murray about writing, aging and Diversion, George’s most recent collection, as well as his stint as St. John’s Poet Laureate. And because this is the Open Issue there is,
- [New short-story in Stand Magazine](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/new-short-story-in-stand-magazine/) - paulo da costa in Stand Magazine
- [Interview & Story in On Spec Magazine](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/interview-story-in-on-spec-magazine/) - New Interview & Story in On Spec Magazine
- [New poem in Contemporary Verse 2](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/new-poem-in-contemporary-verse-2/) - Contemporary Verse 2 mark's its fifth decade. New poetry from Sarah Klassen, John Wall Barger, Linda Frank, paulo da costa and Ted Landrum
- [Entrevista na revista gerador #9](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/entrevista-na-revista-gerador-9/) - Entrevista conduzida pelo Terry e publicada na revista de cultura e ideias mais dinamica e refrescante portuguesa. Gerador #9
- [A Millstone, Always a Millstone](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/a-millstone/) - The blessed water trickled upon the infant’s sleep, pronouncing him Maria das Dores. His cry of betrayal echoed in the serene sanctuary, pleading upwards to the gothic columns, where it ricocheted from the stone ears of the Saints, deaf from centuries of parishioners’ petitions. Padre Lucas proceeded with the baptismal ceremony, his austere voice disregarding
- [Vera](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/vera-excerpt/) - Vera rested, curled in the shade of the womb, meditating on the journey ahead, inch by inch building strength and filling with readiness; readiness, invisible as air that inflates lungs and lends might to voice, invisible as wind that sculpts landscapes and lends shape to the world. Vera rested until the sting of the
- [Palms](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/palms/) - short story
- [The Visible Horizon](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/the-visible-horizon/) - Olive and cork trees will dot the landscape. We will not fan wind into this image. Instead, we will ignite a blazing sun, tinting the landscape crimson, blurring the horizon lines in the fashion of southern memories. The stunted yellow grass will rest still. We will prompt a raven to shriek and burst the
- [Roses for the Dead](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/roses-for-the-dead/) - Padre Lucas found rest under an olive tree. He pressed his handkerchief to the halo of white hair around his skull, attempting to suppress the beaded sweat drenching his face. He leaned against the olive trunk, contemplating the green quilt covering the valley floor, tracing the corn patches and grape fields stitched together by
- [Birthing Stones](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/birthing-stones/) - Along cornfields, past woods, across creeks, Francisco led the villagers to the birthing stones. Large boulders, christened by him as the mothers, covered the crest of the ridge on the rocky landscape of Serra da Senhora da Freita. The Sunday excitement was so high that Mass was prayed on the trail while the rosary
- [The Scent of a Lie](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/the-scent-of-a-lie-excerpt/) - We never carried ill intentions towards Camila Penca. We simply prayed for our village’s old peace to be restored and, thank God, He answered our prayers. Camila was born into a well-bred family in our respectable village nestled on the tusk-sharp escarpment of Hell’s Mouth Bay. A village still standing with pride and resilience
- [The Midwife of Torment - forthcoming book](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/the-midwife-of-torment-forthcoming-book/) - The Midwife of Torment (sudden fictions) to be published in 2017 by Guernica Editions
- [A Reader’s Response to Beyond Bullfights and Ice Hockey](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/a-readers-response-to-beyond-bullfights-and-ice-hockey/) - Beyond Bullfights and Ice Hockey: A Reader’s Response
- [On Falling from Grace - author and reader](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/on-falling-from-grace-author-and-reader/) - Interpretations on Canada Reads essay amid the present high-profile event of the Jian Ghomeshi trial.
- [Canada (T)reads Upon our Books](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/canada-treads-upon-our-books/) - A new phenomenon of combative books adorned with spikes rather than spines, armours rather than covers, vying for centre stage and the gold medal of attention at the annual CBC Canada Reads marketing blitz, has become the prominent public spectacle of our Canadian literary scene. The essential design of this radio show—yes show, not
- [Pleasant Troubles](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/pleasant-troubles-2/) - story excerpt from The Midwife of Torment & Other Stories a manuscript of 44 sudden fictions presently seeking a publisher
- [The Midwife of Torment](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/the-midwife-of-torment/) - story excerpt from The Midwife of Torment & Other Stories a manuscript of 44 sudden fictions presently seeking a publisher
- [Obligatory reading for the North American Luso Diaspora - impressions by Diniz Borges](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/obligatory-reading-for-the-north-american-luso-diaspora-impressions-by-diniz-borges/) - Diniz Borges on Beyond Bullfights & Ice Hockey (essays) Just began to read this new book of essays by paulo da costa. The first essay is amazing. Paulo is a great writer. The title of the book is great. Indeed, beyond some of these stereotypical cliches that we slap in the Portuguese experience in North-America.
- [Poetic & Lyrical - impressions by Irene Marques](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/poetic-lyrical-impressions-by-irene-marques/) - Irene Marques on Beyond Bullfights & Ice Hockey (essays) Paulo da Costa has a poetic and lyrical voice that is beautiful. It is an appeasing murmur conducive to meditation putting into question the acceptance of the mundane or the fashions of the moment which are often guided by economic pressures that erase us all under a
- [New World Odour](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/new-world-odour/) - Calgary writer paulo da costa’s short story collection The Scent of a Lie is the most uniformly fresh, sprightly, meaty work of Canadian fiction I’ve read in a long time. It came as a shock to me that the book had difficulty getting published. Now accumulating the attention it deserves, Da Costa’s book won the
- [Tricked by the dusk - Toronto Star](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/tricked-by-the-dusk-john-terauds/) - From Cowtown to Portugal, with love Spare, poetic tales of ordinary people Once upon a time, not so very long ago, in a windblown modern city in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, a young Angola-born man sat down to tell wonderful, enchanting stories set in lands far, far away. These are stories about
- [Canlit fabulism - Globe and Mail](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/canlit-fabulism-globe-and-mail/) - Saturday, December 28, 2002 The Scent of a Lie By Paulo Da Costa With this book of linked stories, paulo da costa adds piquant new spice to the CanLit broth. Despite a recent Booker short list proving yet again that Canada's writers are also the world's, we've still lacked (I invite correction) a fiction hailing
- [Impressive Stories - Edmonton Journal](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/impressive-stories-edmonton-journal/)
- [Da Costa makes sense of the world with his writing;](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/da-costa-makes-sense-of-the-world-with-his-writing/) - Ian Doig. Calgary Herald . Calgary, Alta.: Oct 19, 2003 . pg. F.4 Interview with paulo da costa Calgary writer paulo da costa was born in Angola and raised in Portugal, before coming to Canada in 1989. His first novel, The Scent of a Lie, was awarded the City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize
- [Da Costa bears criticism](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/da-costa-bears-criticism/) - Calgary Herald Tuesday, May 06, 2003 Paulo da Costa chose Canada as his place of residence despite an encounter with a grizzly bear. Paulo da Costa will read from The Scent of a Lie at noon today at McNally Robinson Booksellers as part of the Commonwealth Writers Prize celebrations. Calgary author Paulo da Costa
- [The Magic Is Simply A Door](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/the-magic-is-simply-a-door-3/) - a c o n v e r s a t i o n w i t h p a u l o d a c o s t a by Tamara Kaye Sellman I HAVE been having a kind of conversation with paulo da costa for at least four years now. He'd sent us a short story, "Hell's Mouth
- [Viva Da Costa](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/viva-da-costa/) - Viva Da Costa by Patricia Robertson Award-winning writer a hybrid spirit paulo da costa enjoys earthly pleasures now, and then confesses later "The gentle morning breeze found Prudêncio in his hammock, enveloped in a blanket of butterflies. The butterflies fanned their wings. The hammock swayed. Robins, perched on the hammock’s rope, sang. Through the
- [Writers of the Portuguese Diaspora - Anthology](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/writers-of-the-portuguese-diaspora-anthology/) - fiction, poetry, recipes and memoirs by Portuguese-Canadian and Portuguese-American writers to narrate the Portuguese Diasporic experience in North America.
- [Interview in Portuguese-American Review](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/interview-in-portuguese-american-review/) - original interview in Portuguese-American Review Portuguese-American Review – Congratulations on publishing “Beyond Bullfights and Ice Hockey: Essays on Language, Identity and Writing Culture”. What is this book’s genre or category? paulo da costa – The book can be seen as a creative non-fiction collection of texts that stretches its traditional essay-like boundaries past the
- [The Guest who refuses to be polite - impressions by Emanuel Melo](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/reviewbull/) - review of bullfights & Ice Hockey book of essays by paulo da costa
- [The Story](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/the-story/) - (...) excerpts 2. resuscitation Word and story can function as an emergency resuscitation for our numbed selves, quagmired in hopelessness and exhaustion, buried in overworking conditions. This rubbing of words generates sparks to illuminate the atrophied mind after a diet of cultural inanity and stale laugh tracks. A fresh story may articulate a
- [New book: Beyond Bullfights and Ice Hockey](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/new-book-beyond-bullfights-and-ice-hockey/) - Beyond Bullfights and Ice Hockey Essays on Identity, Language and Writing Culture A book of twelve essays, musings, thoughts, inner conversations, arguments and rambles written over the course of two decades. For those who believe the book is obsolete and has been overtaken by other cultural platforms and technologies in our increasingly fast-moving times, I
- [Winter Kale and the Old Man](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/winter-kale-and-the-old-man/) - Portraits of Queen Elizabeth the Second in full regalia lined the walls. The oil paintings spanned the mood of her reign. Sixty prospective citizens stood, left hands raised, their free hands clutching Korans, Bibles, Books of Mormon. I clutched a pine cone in my vest pocket. "I swear I will be faithful and bear
- [Mass Storytelling](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/mass-storytelling/) - – paulo da costa Sunday morning in my neighbourhood. Cars pull into parking lots and doors slam shut. This domino of bangs echoes a timeless, proverbial Big Bang of life-changing events. The amiable people exchange smiles and jovial greetings as they stroll with purpose to their varied gatherings of devotion. In high-ceilinged buildings
- [Para lá das Touradas e Hóquei no Gelo](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/2937-2/) - Para lá das Touradas e Hóquei no Gelo - Uma Arquitetura da Identidade Multicultural - Homens que são como lugares mal situados Homens que são como casas saqueadas [...] Homens encarcerados abrindo-se com facas Homens que são como danos irreparáveis Homens que são sobreviventes vivos Homens que são como sítios desviados Do lugar Daniel Faria
- [Beyond Bullfights and Hockey](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/beyond-bullfights-and-hockey/) - - AN ARCHITECTURE OF MULTICULTURAL IDENTITY - Homens que são como lugares mal situados Homens que são como casas saqueadas […] Homens encarcerados abrindo-se com facas Homens que são como danos irreparáveis Homens que são sobreviventes vivos Homens que são como sítios desviados Do lugar Daniel Faria My first memories, first
- [New Story in Rampike](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/new-story-in-rampike/) - Rampike, the University of Windsor's Literary Magazine, has just published in their latest issue (Vol 22/ N.1) one of my new works of fiction. Vol. 22/No. 1 (Re-recorded Histories): Carol Stetser, Phil Hall, Diane Schoemperlen, Collete Broeders & Samantha Therrien, Niels Hav, Alison Dilworth, Stephen Bett, Faruk Ulay, Brenda F. Pelkey, Norman Lock, Vittori Baroni,
- [New Fiction in Prairie Fire Magazine](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/new-fiction-in-prairie-fire-magazine/) - paulo da costa's fiction in Prairie Fire's spring 2015 issue! The Spring 2015 Volume 36, No.1 issue features fiction by Catherine Brunet, paulo da costa, Alex Leslie and Leanne Lieberman; poetry by Byrna Barclay, Matthew Gwathmey, Bill Howell, Sally Ito, Andrew Kozma, Armand Garnet Ruffo, Douglas Burnet Smith, Stephanie Warner and Daryl Whetter; and non-fiction
- [Um Punhado de Ilusões,](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/um-punhado-de-ilusoes/) - Eu, o diabo? Nunca. O diabo não se atrevia a dedicar-se a estas canseiras, estes riscos. Eu gasto as pontas dos dedos até ao giz do osso só para agarrar clientela. Ah… não como a vida de padre, feita à medida, simplesmente a deslizar para dentro de uma batina e a esborrifar umas lufadas
- [As Borboletas de Prudêncio Casmurro](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/as-borboletas-de-prudencio-casmurro/) - Prudêncio Casmurro não era um homem qualquer. Enterrou os pais, sete mulheres e o último de vinte e dois filhos, revelando sempre pouca ânsia em partir deste mundo. Testemunhou carros de bois a serem substituídos por tractores e tractores a serem substituídos por ceifeiras monstras. Do quarto, espreitava sobre o muro do quintal. Espreitava o
- [O Perfume da Mentira](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/o-perfume-da-mentira/) - Nunca tivemos má fé contra a Camila Penca. Simplesmente rezámos pelo regresso do sossego e da harmonia à aldeia e, graças a Deus, as nossas preces foram ouvidas. Camila nasceu de boa gente, na nossa respeitada aldeia, anichada entre os dentes aguçados do penhasco da Baía da Boca do Inferno. Uma aldeia ainda de pé,
- [Uma Aragem de Memória](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/uma-arajem-de-memoria/) - Florindo Ramos adorava árvores, e sempre adorara, desde que num inverno turbulento, quando rapaz ágil, saltando de pedra em pedra, procurando musgo pela orla do rio Caima, escorregara, caindo na rodopiante corrente, «Eu cá teria afogado», contava Florindo às crianças que o rodeavam e atentamente escutavam as suas histórias após o fim das aulas.
- [Pedras Parideiras](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/pedras-parideiras/) - Francisco guiava a aldeia que o seguia por campos de milho, montes, atravessando ribeiros, para indicar ao povo estupefacto o berço das pedras parideiras. Os corpulentos pedregulhos, descobertos e batizados por Francisco com o nome de pedras-mãe, encobriam a crista do cume e ao longe pareciam indistinguíveis de qualquer outro campo de pedras no
- [As Asas da História](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/as-asas-da-historia/) - conto de paulo da costa
- [Sharp and True - a book review by the Coastal Spectator](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/sharp-and-true-a-book-review-by-the-coastal-spectator/) - Yasuko Thanh reviews The Green and Purple Skin of the World
- [Unhurried & Meditative - A National Post review](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/unhurried-meditative-a-national-post-review/) - review
- [Malahat Review -  Seamless Stories Haunt](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/malahat-review-seamless-stories-haunt/) - review in malahat review, fiction, paulo da costa
- [Atlantis - sang by Nancy Dutra](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/atlantis-sang-by-nancy-dutra/) - Talented Canadian singer Nancy Dutra has put to music one of my English poems from The Book of Water. Nancy has a distinctive and powerful voice that will delight any listener. Take a peek at this music video recorded under a Dragon Tree in Pico, Azores during the 2013 AzoresFringe Festival. And stay tuned for
- [tradução de texto, tradução do eu](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/traducao-de-texto-traducao-do-eu/) - tradução de texto, tradução do eu Imagine-me diante de um espelho, a conversar, a discutir. Peço clarificação sobre o sentido de uma palavra ou argumento a palavra mais precisa para expressar a minha experiência em duas línguas cara a cara na minha mente. Esta imagem pode evocar um indício de insanidade ao observador
- [A Música da Tradução](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/a-musica-da-traducao/) - A Música da Tradução Cada texto em particular exige que o tradutor sintonize as suas necessidades. As necessidades são variadas e complexas em qualquer transposição de uma língua, de uma cultura para outra. Aqui irei concentrar-me na análise das necessidades musicais de um texto específico. Do poético ao técnico, e em graus variáveis, cada
- [Na Lavra da Palavra](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/na-lavra-da-palavra/) - (excerto) paulo da costa Um dos intervenientes num encontro de escritores no qual participei pediu desculpas por se encontrar num palco, onde como escritor era objecto de reconhecimento e distinção, enquanto a audiência se encontrava segregada e anónima na plateia. A pessoa expressou o seu desencanto pela situação, alegando que não deveria existir distinção
- [The Music of Translation](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/the-music-of-translation/) - Each particular text requires that the translator be attuned to its needs. The needs are varied and complex in any transposition from one language, one culture to another. Here I will focus on the exploration of a text’s specific musical needs. From the poetic to the technical, and to varying degrees, each text will
- [Beneath Thin Skin - BC Bookworld feature](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/beneath-thin-skin-bc-bookworld-feature/) - In BC's Bookworld Summer Issue: a brief blurb and mini-interview on my new book. Beneath Thin Skin Possibly B.C.’s only Angolan-born author, paulo da costa was raised in Vale de Cambra, Portugal and arrived in Canada in 1989. Having won Best First Book, Canada & Caribbean Region of the Commonwealth Writers Prize 2003, the City
- [The Cartography of Being - by Nuno Judice - Reviewed in The Malahat Review](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/the-cartography-of-being-by-nuno-judice-reviewed-in-the-malahat-review/) - Nuno Júdice, The Cartography of Being, translated by Paulo da Costa (Victoria: Livros Pé D’Orelha, 2012). Paperbound, 126 pp., $17.95. Poetry Review by David Swartz Nuno Júdice's poetry is dense, rich, lyrical and, above all, philosophical. It expresses a philosophy that equates poetry with every aspect of life, and a portrait of
- [Mara Bettencourt sings poem by paulo da costa](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/mara-bettencourt-sings-poem-by-paulo-da-costa/) - Mara Bettencourt, Boston, has put to music one of my English poems from The Book of Water. Take a peek at an excerpt from this music video recorded during the 2013 AzoresFringe Festival, in a vineyard with a background view of Pico's volcano. For more information on this visually gorgeous documentary please go to:
- [New Fiction in Grain Magazine](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/new-fiction-in-grain-magazine/) - Issue 42.1 of Grain Magazine - Hearing Voices - is out now, featuring artwork by Wilf Perreault, and new work by Gary Geddes, Paul Cresey, Robert Currie, paulo da costa (fiction), among many others authors.
- [Pleasant Troubles](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/pleasant-troubles/) - A sudden, involuntary flaring of his tongue, followed by a hideous contortion of his face; apart from this peculiar affliction, Bonifácio Careta was an ordinary child. The villagers believed everyone arrived in life with unique God-given inclinations - some were born to nose-picking, others to continuous spitting, others to limping. They never spent a second
- [Art is the next Textile Industry - by Thorsten Nesch](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/art-is-the-next-textile-industry-by-thorsten-nesch/) - Creative thoughts on the future livelihood of writers from German author Thorsten Nesch. “Art is the next Textile Industry” Dear reader, the headline is not my opinion and I hope we artists won’t go down that road but I’ll get back to this statement I had to hear later. Now I want to publicly
- [Satúrnia ](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/saturnia/) - ENTREVISTA A PAULO DA COSTA Paulo da Costa é autor do livro "The Scent of a Lie" Depois de conceder esta entrevista, foi galardoado com o prestigioso "Commonwealth Writers Prize 2003 (Best first book)-Caribbean & Canada Region" Satúrnia - Em primeiro lugar gostaria que nos falasse um pouco de si, pois está um pouco arredio
- [Voz do Caima ](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/voz-do-caima-2/) - É português, escritor, radicado no Canadá. No nº 4 de VOZ DO CAIMA foi apresentado aos nossos leitores, assim como o seu conto "Rosas, Lírios e Crisântemos" Aproveitando uma curta estadia em Terras do Caima, Paulo Costa concedeu-nos a entrevista que a seguir transcrevemos. Carlos Moura (C.M.) Começando pelas raizes, o Paulo
- [The Green and Purple Skin of the World - The Quill & Quire Review](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/forthcoming-reviews-the-green-and-purple/) - The May issue of Quill & Quire features a review of The Green and Purple Skin of the World
- [calcanhar de aquiles](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/calcanhar-de-aquiles/) - (animus) onde a mãe te segurou sob a água em movimento a flecha penetra convida-te a ajoelhar a sangrar desse lugar mortal que a sua mão não soltou (…) excerto ©paulodacosta de: notas de rodapé, LPD 2012 Livro ou ebook vendido pelas Livrarias da Amazon nos EUA GB Espanha Alemanha
- [Image - Nuno Júdice](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/image-nuno-judice/) - IMAGE translated by paulo da costa The man who talked to himself in munich’s central station what language did he speak? What language speak those lost like that, on platforms of train stations, at night, when no kiosk sells newspapers or coffee? The munich man asked me for nothing, he didn’t even look
- [sem raízes](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/sem-raizes-2/) - sem raízes I. plantas do pé sem raízes solidamente assentes entre árvores de unha-de-cavalo o peso do corpo cunha a sua própria cama aí a chuva se congregará II. quente e macia a terra é a pele amante que recorda o meu peso após a partida
- [Class Struggle - Nuno Júdice](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/class-struggle-nuno-judice/) - CLASS STRUGGLE translated by paulo da costa Not everyone who built the cathedrals witnessed the same. Some, by sunlight, erected towers and pinnacles and attained heaven, others, inside crypts, painted hells by candlelight, leaving room on the ground for the most anonymous of the dead. Those who reached the top, received the divine gaze
- [Zoology - The Blackbird  (Nuno Júdice)](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/zoology-the-blackbird-nuno-judice/) - ZOOLOGY : THE BLACKBIRD translated by paulo da costa Inside the cage, the blackbird has no yellower a beak than outside. The bird shrinks into a corner, poor thing, and seems shy, although it is the fault of who placed it there knowing a blackbird does not fall from the sky. There
- [a foot in two worlds](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/footnotes/) - a foot in two worlds on south terraced slopes vineyards rose in awnings of foliage feet lifted me up ten-foot ladders through green nearer the divine fingers easily pinched the dangling blue thirsty skin touched every soft fruit of the earth but not tin or plastic heels digging into grapes it was love
- [Rainbow Moon](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/rainbow-moon/) - 14: a purple thistle sways in the heat a tide of granite inundates the valley wheels and wheels of stone encircle your musing body a small fire eats your dark thoughts jingle of bells cows and bulls trespass your prayers your smile cracks the stern boulder clouds open there is radiance in a mere glance
- [inevitable step](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/inevitable-step-2/) - inevitable step young tiko's dreams scatter to pieces, hang from the baobab tree, a boom of a thousand drums in the imagined luanda's stadium where tiko's feet, swift as birds, chased a soccer ball of rags gravel, grass and cloth burrow in tiko's stump in the boot of
- [ Michael Ondaatje - poema](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/michael-ondaatje-poema/) - O DESCASCADOR DE CANELA Michael Ondaatje tradução paulo da costa Se eu fosse um Descascador de canela cavalgaria a tua cama e espalharia o pó amarelo da casca na tua almofada. Os teus peitos e ombros tresandariam nunca poderias passear pelos mercados sem a profissão dos meus dedos a
- [Margaret Atwood - um poema](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/margaret-atwood-um-poema/) - Margaret Atwood nasceu em Ottawa, Ontario, Canadá, em 1939. Uma das escritoras mais conhecidas nas letras canadianas. Poeta, romancista, ensaísta, crítica literária e feminista, Atwood já recebeu inúmeras distinções nacionais e internacionais incluindo o Booker Prize. Espargos Esta tarde um homem inclina-se sobre os pães e a manteiga encaracolada, e confessa-me tudo: duas
- [o rodopio da wiebke](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/o-rodopio-da-wiebke/) - o rodopio da wiebke à W.L. paragem de autocarro, filas austeras, a tua dança principia, o sol transborda dos vidros do colete, ancorados à bainha, os búzios chocalham o cimento não vacila sob pés descalços a criança destemida aproxima-se, admira os anéis, a saia de corvo a esvoaçar o resplendor de
- [O Papa - conto de David Albahari](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/o-papa-conto-de-david-albahari/) - o papa conto de david albahari
- [to be portuguese ](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/to-be-portuguese/) - to be portuguese is to be born with the fado around your neck to live with your eyes anchored to the open sea, longing for the outgoing tide or for its incoming wave living canned up between the sea and spain exporting sardines going to mass and forgetting the sermon
- [Memória: An Anthology of Portuguese Canadian Writers](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/memoria-an-anthology-of-portuguese-canadian-writers/) - anthology of Portuguese Canadian Writers
- [Revista Portugal - 2005](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/revista-portugal-2005/) - Entrevista de Sandra Santos a paulo da costa a propósito do lançamento do livro de poemas notas de rodapé.
- [Not Written in Pencil](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/not-written-in-pencil/) - Arial and I weren't bad people or nothing, just different spark plugs misfiring under the same hood. It's like this. Arial lived for now. I lived for tomorrow’s bills. I‘m not thinking she exemplified a young case of Alzheimer's or nothing. You might think she slipped to forgetful on her wedding vows, but I say
- [Nuno Júdice wins prestigious Spanish poetry prize](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/nuno-judice-wins-prestigious-spanish-poetry-prize/) - The jury for this year's edition of Spain's Queen Sofia Ibero-American Poetry Prize meets in the Royal Palace in Madrid before announcing its decision. Portugal's Nuno Judice was named the recipient of this year's award for a body of poetry that is "very well-crafted, of a refined classicism," yet at the same time deeply committed
- [Literary Bites in Bits: A Short Story List by paulo da costa](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/literary-bites-in-bits-a-short-story-list-by-paulo-da-costa/) - reviews, paulo da costa, short stories, margaret atwood, sheila heti,
- [Writers on Reading: paulo da costa](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/writers-on-reading-paulo-da-costa/) - interview, paulo da costa
- [Em construção](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/em-construcao/) - Conteúdo previsto para Novembro de 2013
- [A Verde e Púrpura Pele do Mundo (conto)](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/a-verde-e-purpura-pele-do-mundo-conto/) - Cara A, Monte das Lameiras, pátio três semanas A manhã desperta e suspira nos pulmões dos pássaros. Inauguro o dia nos degraus da entrada, roupão de banho vestido e a fazer bolas de sabão. A música dos pássaros começa a derreter o ténue véu de geada que encobre o chão. Ligaste-me a noite passada
- [My Real Mother Would Never](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/my-real-mother-would-never/) - fiction paulo da costa the green and purple skin of the world
- [Immortality](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/immortality/) - Vera rummaged in the wood crate overflowing with fluffy moss she and her brother had collected that morning in the pine woods behind her parents’ riverside home. The moss's cool softness dampened her fingers. After careful inspection, she found a wide patch of greenery to cover the refuge of stacked pebbles and slate roof
- [Story in Nashwaak Review](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/story-in-nashwaak-review/) - The Nashwaak Review (Vol. 28-29) from St. Thomas University in New Brunswick published in their latest issue the short-story: The Weight of Memory. TABLE OF CONTENTS Fiction Common Signs of Spring Andrea Schwenke Wyile The Auction Ann Lohner Lila Barbara Biles Shades of Grey Catherine Brunet Dolly Jonathan Greenbaum Visa Edward Gauvin The Tin
- [Joelene Heathcote - poema](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/joelene-heathcote-poema/) - Joelene Heathcote nasceu em 1975 e reside em Victoria, na Colômbia Britânica, Canadá. Premiada pela sua ficção e poesia, é considerada como uma das novas promessas da literatura canadiana. O seu primeiro livro, de 2002, intitula-se What is between us can’t be heard. Em 2008 publicou Inherit the Earth. Cena da Segunda Guerra
- [À Janela - fado and poems (bilingual)](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/a-janela-fado-and-poems-bilingual/) - This coffee table book celebrates Portuguese singers, from Mariza to Dulce Pontes, and contains a series of portrait paintings by Maria Miranda Lawrence accompanied by a selection of bilingual poetry which includes two excerpts from a poem: relinquishing the light by paulo da costa. This book is a gem with over fifty inspirational paintings and
- [ser português - novo CD de poemas em língua portuguesa](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/ser-portugues-novo-cd-de-poemas-em-lingua-portuguesa/) - Disponível nas diversas lojas virtuais da www.amazon.com por todo o mundo, incluindo em Espanha, Inglaterra e EUA, o novo CD de poesia do paulo da costa pode ser descarregado nas suas lojas de música mp3. O cibernauta tem a opção de compra do CD por faixa ou no seu todo.
- [TransLit Anthology ](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/translit-anthology/) - Edited by Yukari Meldrum, this year's anthology (2012) has selected two translations of Marilyn Bowering to the Portuguese by paulo da costa. TransLit Volume 9 is an anthology of literary translations published by the Association of Translators and Interpreters of Alberta (Canada). This volume showcases translations of various literary texts in the following language combinations:
- [diVersos' Literary Magazine Publishes a bilingual feature of Canadian Poets](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/diversos-literary-magazine-publishes-a-bilingual-feature-of-canadian-poets/) - Este número da série diVersos - Poesia e Tradução dá destaque a um pequeno dossiê bilingue de novos poetas do Canadá, com seleção e tradução do poeta português fixado naquele país, paulo da costa. Na seleção de paulo da costa, destaque-se uma dimensão multicultural, com três poetisas e três poetas, dos quais um de origem
- [Ellipse - Translations](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/69/) - ellipse magazine in their issue n. 84-85 has just published a feature of Contemporary Brazilian Writing in Translation. You can find paulo da costa's translations of Reynaldo Valinho Alvarez and Moacyr Scliar in this issue.
- [matrix](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/matrix/) - In their 90th issue, Montreal based matrix magazine has published 4 poems by Nuno Júdice and Ana Paula Tavares. These English translations are by paulo da costa.
- [The Cartography of Being - Nuno Júdice translated by paulo da costa](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/the-cartography-of-being-nuno-judice-translated-by-paulo-da-costa/) - PREFACE The poems in Júdice’s universe reflect a conversational and unpretentious philosophical discourse whether distilling musings of the heart in a café scene (The Zodiac According To Saussure) or anchored to the tactile world of the domestic tasks as in Rain, Strings, Poems Like Laundry On A Line which ponders the ars poetica in its
- [Adrienne Rich - Does Poetry Matter?](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/adrienne-rich-does-poetry-matter-2/) - Adrienne Rich interviewed by paulo da costa. Writing life, poetry.
- [No Limiar de um Século…](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/no-limiar-de-um-seculo/) - CRÓNICAS DE CALGARY O DESPERTAR DE UMA CULTURA REJUVESNESCIDA Portugal, após viver grande parte do século XX em entorpecido isolamento e enclausurado puritanismo cultural, parece presentemente despertar o interesse de outros povos, através da sua cultura, Língua, e principalmente através da vitalidade das renovadas heranças da lusofonia disseminadas pelo mundo. A língua e cultura lusitanas,
- [Onde Crescem os Livros?.....](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/onde-crescem-os-livros/) - CRÓNICA DE CALGARY (VIA TERRAS DO CAIMA) Por ironia, a primeira crónica de Calgary é oriunda de Portugal onde me encontro a matar saudades. (Como se porventura as saudades pudessem ser aniquiladas para não mais nos inquietar.) Aproveitei esta viagem para visitar a minha primeira biblioteca e reacender memórias dos princípios dos anos setenta. A
- [Patrick Lane - Go Leaving Strange](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/go-leaving-strange/) - Patrick Lane was born in 1939 in Nelson, British Columbia. He has published twenty-two volumes of poetry over the past thirty years and has received a number of awards including The Governor-General Award. He recently co-edited with his partner, Lorna Crozier, the anthology of essays on addiction, Addicted: Notes From the Belly of the
- [Eden Robinson - Traplines](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/traplines/) - Eden Robinson's debut novel, Monkey Beach, was nominated for the 2000 Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction and shortlisted for the Giller Prize. Monkey Beach is the first novel published by a member of the Haisla First Nation, and has been widely acclaimed by critics and readers alike. Robinson's previous collection of stories, Traplines,
- [Alberto Manguel - God's Spies](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/gods-spies/) - ALBERTO MANGUEL is an editor, translator and essayist. He was born in Argentina and since the eigthies makes Canada his home. He is the author of several books, among them A History of Reading, which was awarded France's prestigious Prix Médicis. He recently published the anthology God's Spies - Stories in Defiance of Oppression
- [rajinderpal s. pal - dois poemas](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/rajinderpal-s-pal-dois-poemas/) - superfície rajinderpal s. pal enquadrados na porta dos fundos num aguaceiro relâmpagos erráticos revelam os seus corpos ambos desejam ser transformados desejam biselar o espaço reduzido deslizar de encontro ao outro tolerar o silêncio e comunicar numa nova língua vê-se um primeiro plano de gotas de chuva embatendo com força
- [Richard Harrison - poema](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/richard-harrison-poema/) - Richard Harrison tem cinco livros de poesia publicados. O seu último livro, intitulado Worthy of His Fall foi publicado em 2005. Richard vive na cidade de Calgary, em Alberta, onde é professor de Literatura Inglesa e Escrita Criativa. O Meu Pai Visita o Cirurgião Dentro de cada dia, espero pela morte do
- [Patrick Lane -  poemas](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/patrick-lane-poemas/) - BELEZA Patrick Lane Outrora eras bela mas de tal já não te recordas o que te torna ainda mais bela. As mulheres mais belas são aquelas que não o sabem. São elas a razão pela qual os homens se deitam ao seu lado no rigoroso respeito da sua graça, desejando pertencer a tal
- [Shane Rhodes - dois poemas](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/shane-rhodes-dois-poemas/) - Alegação Shane Rhodes Eu imagino o meu pai um deus cinzento que imaginava a sua sede como um músculo que endurecia e descontraía pela força da vontade era um falhado alquimista transformando vinho em sangue o ilusionista que serrou, um por um a sua família em dois o carpinteiro que desmantelou a sua casa
- [Weyman Chan - dois poemas](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/weyman-chan-dois-poemas/) - A RELIGIÃO DA CAPITULAÇAO Weyman Chan XVI. Fui arrastado de encontro ao mistério das marés, invisíveis magnetismos e corpos que não se sabem entregar. É fácil esquecer as razões entrelaçadas que nos tecem da poeira, para depois nos ameaçar de ser esmagados de regresso à poeira, e por isso tenho simplesmente
- [Agnes Walsh - dois poemas](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/agnes-walsh-em-traducao/) - Agnes Walsh nasceu em Placentia, Terra Nova, Canadá, em 1950. Poetisa e dramaturga, é autora de dois livros de poesia: In the Old Country of My Heart (1996), Going Around with Bachelors (2007). Viajou extensamente no Canadá, Estados Unidos, Portugal e Irlanda. Alguns dos seus poemas estão traduzidos em português por paulo da costa.
- [Erin Mouré - Dialogues and Polylogues](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/dialogues-and-polylogues/) - Erin Mouré is one of Canada's most respected and eminent poets. Winner of the Governor General's Award for Furious, the Pat Lowther Memorial Award for Domestic Fuel, the QSPELL Award for Poetry for WSW, Mouré has published twelve books of poetry, including A Frame of the Book (aka The Frame of a Book), which
- [The Green and Purple Skin of the World   ](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/the-green-and-purple-skin-of-the-world/) - Dear B, Quinta da Garrida, courtyard three weeks The morning yawns and sighs in the lungs of the birds. I begin the day on the front steps, in my bathrobe, blowing soap bubbles. The birds’ harmonies melt the thin veil of frost covering the ground to reveal the green. You phoned last night to
- [The Red Skirt](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/the-red-skirt/) - The Australian literary magazine Southpaw, in its inaugural issue, has published paulo da costa's story set in Angola and entitled The Red Skirt. The story is part of a recently finished manuscript of fiction entitled The Green and Purple Skin of the World.
- [The Soul and It's Worms](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/the-soul-and-its-worms/) - * A leaf follows my footsteps rasping its skin against cobblestone bleeds with every turn to be near ©1998 paulodacosta
- [L’odore della Menzogna - Gigliotti Giuseppina (Italian)](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/translations/) - L’ODORE DELLA MENZOGNA paulo da costa traduttore – Gigliotti Giuseppina Non abbiamo mai avuto cattive intenzioni nei confronti di Camila Penca. Semplicemente pregavamo che al nostro villaggio fosse restituita l’antica pace e, grazie a Dio, Egli ha risposto alle nostre preghiere. Camila nacque in una famiglia perbene del nostro rispettabile villaggio, annidato sulla scarpata affilata
- [tão longe, tão perto](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/tao-longe-tao-perto/) - tão longe, tão perto à B.Q. e à A.D. o peso da tua cabeça exerce pressão no meu peito, a respiração é forçada após uma estrofe sobre “amantes que partiram um amor de porcelana rechonchudo como a baleia," e, apesar da tua mão descansar na minha coxa moves-te como se acordasses de um
- [Coral Bracho - Four poems](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/coral-bracho-four-poems/) - Coral Bracho - Four Poems translated by paulo da costa La voz indígena Es un dolor de voz que se apaga. De voz eterna y profunda que así se apaga. Que así se apaga para nosotros. The indigenous voice It is the ache of a dying voice. Eternal voice and profound
- [Sobre: The Scent of a Lie](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/sobre-the-scent-of-a-lie/) - SOBRE THE SCENT OF A LIE, DE PAULO DA COSTA Vamberto Freitas paulo da costa, nascido em Angola e criado até à adolescência na Beira Litoral, reside desde 1989 na costa oeste do Canadá, em Alberta e Calgary. O seu livro, The Scent of a Lie, apresenta-nos um caso pouco habitual entre nós: um imigrante
- [Yesterday's Dream](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/yesterdays-dream/) - * pearls rolled the backs of geese, decorated nested wings. round pearls. clear. impossible. i stopped. rain did not. geese ruffled. pearls swept, seedling rain, planted in clouds. pearls bounced from nose to lip, to grass. pearls do not stay. greener places to see, to wet. hardly a soul by the river willing to feel
- [notas de rodapé](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/notas-de-rodape/) - Depois da publicação e aclamação, em terras canadianas, de The Scent of a Lie – livro de contos premiado internacionalmente –, o escritor luso-canadiano paulo da costa estreou-se na língua de Camões com o livro de poesia notas de rodapé. Livro solidamente trabalhado ao longo de mais de dois anos, segundo nos confidenciou o autor,
- [De Calgary com sabor (e saber) português](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/de-calgary-com-sabor-e-saber-portugues/) - De Calgary com sabor (e saber) português Um novo Livro com "raízes" portuguesas Fernando Cruz Gomes "The Scent of a Lie" é um novo livro do escritor luso-canadiano Paulo da Costa, cujo lançamento foi agora feito pelas Ekstasis Editions, em Victoria, BC.."The Scent of a Lie", escrito em inglês, contém um conjunto de catorze contos
- [efêmero ](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/efemero/) - paulo da costa (tradução de Mauro Faccioni Filho, Brasil) passo a passo cavo vales sob cada pisada a formiga escala montanhas de areia recém erguidas esta é a força a moldar o mundo cada pernada, junto da areia molhada vai mais fundo, dura o mais breve momento como uma onda estende sua língua acariciando a
- [George Melnyk - Literary History](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/literary-history/) - interview by: paulo da costa and Nelson Wight George Melnyk, considered an authority on regionalism, has published seven non-fiction books dealing with Western Canada. His most recent titles include The Urban Prairie, Beyond Alienation and Riel to Reform. He has just published the first volume of the Literary History of Alberta. In the 1970s
- [A conversation with Paula Tavares](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/a-conversation-with-paula-tavares/) - Paula Tavares was born in Lubango, Angola and lives in Lisbon where she teaches History at the Universidade Católica. She has published two books of poetry, Ritos de Passagem, 1985 and O lago da Lua, 1999 as well as a book of prose, O Sangue das Buganvílias, 1998, chronicles from her a weekly column in
- [John Burnside - 10: Meadow](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/10-meadow/) - John Burnside was born in 1955 and lives in Fife, Scotland. He is Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of St Andrews. His poetry cultivates an intimate relationship with the pastoral, a world of landscape and light. He has published six collections of poetry: Feast Days (1992), winner of The Geoffrey Faber Memorial
- [ Coral Bracho - The Transparency of the Poem](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/the-transparency-of-the-poem/) - Coral Bracho visited Calgary and Banff on the occasion of PanCanadian WordFest 98. Coral is a poet of sparse words. She prefers her poetry to speak on her behalf. We sat in the lobby of Margaret Graham Theatre, at the Banff Centre, the Bow river meandering in the valley below. filling Station interviewed Coral Bracho
- [Dionne Brand - A Map to the Door of No Return](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/a-map-to-the-door-of-no-return/) - Dionne Brand was born in Guayguayare, Trinidad and moved to Toronto in 1970, where she went on to build a reputation as one of Canada’s finest writers. Winner of the Governor General’s Award for Poetry and the Trillium Award in 1997 for Land to Light On, Brand is also known as an essayist, short story
- [Ulrikka S. Gernes - Poetry As a Language of Resistance](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/poetry-as-a-language-of-resistance/) - Ulrikka S. Gernes was born in Sweden to Danish parents and spent most of her childhood in Sweden. She has travelled extensively in Europe and Asia and now lives in Copenhagen. Her work has been highly acclaimed in Denmark since the publication of her first collection Natsvaermer (Moth) in 1984 when she was 18. She
- [Verónica Volkow - The Hunger of Being](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/the-hunger-of-being/) - A collaborative interview: paulo da costa and Shane Rhodes interview Verónica Volkow. Verónica Volkow, born in Mexico City, is a poet, a translator, an essayist and a photographer. Until the age of eighteen she lived in the house of her great-grandfather, Leon Trotsky. She has written exhibit catalogues on Arnold Belkin, Francisco Toledo, Christine Couture
- [Eugénio de Andrade - Between Brutality and Tenderness](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/between-brutality-and-tenderness/) - paulo da costa interviews Eugénio de Andrade Eugénio de Andrade is the most loved of the living Portuguese poets and the best known outside his country. He is thin, slightly hunched by the weight of nearly eight decades of life and there is a visible frailty in the way he walks. His hair is pure
- [Quincy Troupe - On Reading Like a Sleeping Pill](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/reading-like-a-sleeping-pill/) - Quincy Troupe is a poet, journalist, and teacher. Two-time winner of the prestigious Heavyweight Champion of Poetry and winner of American Book Awards for both nonfiction (Miles: The Autobiography) and poetry (Snake Back Solos), he leaves audiences in awe with his incendiary jazz performance style. His most recent work, the picture book Take it to
- [The Democratisation of Poetry](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/the-democratisation-of-poetry-2/) - Bob Holman (USA) became a poet in the third grade when his teacher said, "That's a very good poem, Robert. Where did you copy it from?" He has published five books, most recently The Collect Call of the Wild and a poetry CD, In With the Out Crowd. He has also helped to put poetry
- [David Albahari - Words are Something Else](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/words-are-something-else/) - DAVID ALBAHARI (1948), a writer and translator from Yugoslavia, moved to Canada in 1994. He has published seven collections of short stories and seven novels in Serbian. His book Opis smrti (Description of Death) won the Ivo Andric Award for the best collection of short stories in Yugoslavia in 1982, and his novel Mamac (The
- [Robert Kroetsch - Imagining Alberta](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/imagining-alberta/) - One of Canada's most accomplished authors, Robert Kroetsch was born in Heisler, Alberta in 1927. Kroetsch's contribution to Canadian literature includes fiction, non-fiction and poetry. His first novel, But We Are Exiles was published in 1965, and in 1969 his novel The Studhorse Man won the Governor General's Award for Fiction. His most recent book
- [Esquina Do Mundo ](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/de-maduro/) - - entrevista com Luís Filipe Ferreira Entrevista publicada no primeiro numero da Revista Literária Esquina do Mundo do Centro de Estudos Ferreira de Castro. O primeiro livro aos 37 anos. Quais as razões desta demora? O fruto maduro é mais saboroso. "The Scent of a Lie" foi muito bem recebido pelo mundo literário canadiano
- [Fernando Aguiar - Visual Poetry](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/visual-poetry/) - Fernando Aguiar has published five anthologies of Visual Poetry and contributed to over thirty international anthologies worldwide. In the last twenty years he has participated in hundreds of individual and collective exhibitions, as well as poetic performances. paulo da costa interviewed him this winter in Lisbon, Portugal. paulo da costa: What inspired the use old
- [The Magic Is Simply A Door](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/the-magic-is-simply-a-door/) - I HAVE been having a kind of conversation with Paulo da Costa for at least four years now. He'd sent us a short story, "Hell's Mouth Bay," in response to Margin's first ever call for submissions. Naturally, we were slow in responding as we worked out our editorial processes, so when we finally decided we
- [Rosas, Lírios e Crisântemos](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/rosas-lirios-e-crisantemos/) - paulo da costa Num fim de tarde arruivado, caminhando pelo olival, Manuel Sabetudo anteviu a sua morte e o corpo estremeceu como uma oliveira varejada, derramando a última azeitona. Manuel perdeu o dom da palavra, sobrevivendo esse verão fatídico, acocorado na margem do rio Caima, seguindo as águas cristalinas a deambular pelo verdejante vale até
- [Write - Short-Story](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/write-short-story/) - In their Fall 2012 edition of Write Magazine, The Writers Union of Canada has published the short-story Remember As You Go.
- [ser português - poema](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/ser-portugues-poema/) - O poema longo, ser português, acabou de ser publicado pelos cadernos de estudos de literatura Gávea-Brown da Universidade de Brown nos Estados Unidos. Gavea-Brown - A Bilingual Journal of Portuguese-American Letters and Studies 2010-2011 Gavea-Brown Publications was founded in 1980 under the auspices of the Center for Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, Brown University, its purpose
- [The Red Skirt by paulo da costa read aloud by Carole Giangrande](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/the-red-skirt-by-paulo-da-costa-read-aloud-by-carole-giangrande/) - Welcome to WORDS TO GO Podcast #40! Curl up close to your computer/MP3 player, and listen up as Carole intros an outstanding new talent, Paulo da Costa from Portugal via the west coast of Canada. And if there's still a chill in the air where you are, his story set in the heat of Angola
- [Jim Bartley](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/jim-bartley/) - “With this book of linked stories, Paulo Da Costa adds piquant new spice to the CanLit broth. Despite a recent Booker short list proving yet again that Canada's writers are also the world's, we've still lacked (I invite correction) a fiction hailing from Portuguese villages” JIM BARTLEY , Guardian, Saturday, December 28, 2002

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- [Books](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/) - paulo da costa bilingual portuguese-canadian author
- [Bibliography](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/bibliography/) - Non-Fiction Trust the Bluer Skies: Meditations on Fatherhood, URegina Press, 2024 ISBN: 978-0889779921 Beyond Bullfights and Ice Hockey, Boavista Press 2015 USA ISBN: 978–0–9960511–3–2 Fiction The Midwife of Torment & Other Stories, Guernica Editions 2017 ISBN: 978–1771831628 The Green and Purple Skin of the World, Freehand Books, 2013 ISBN: 978–1554811397 The
- [Editing, Mentorship & Translation Services](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/translation-editing-services/) - Portuguese and English speaking author and editor having translated many authors into both languages
- [TEACHING](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/teaching/) - Alexandra Writers' Centre - The 2025 Writer in Residence is paulo da costa This retreat is perfect for all writers—beginner, emerging, or established—who would like to dive deeply into their writing for a few days. CALGARY PUBLIC LIBRARY - 2024 AUTHOR IN RESIDENCE Join me for a free, in-person Memoir Workshop sponsored by the Writers
- [Biography](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/bio-3/) - Born in Angola, and raised in Portugal, paulo da costa is a writer, editor and translator living in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies (Moh'kins'tsis / Calgary, Alberta). He is thrice the recipient of the James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction (2024, 2023 and 2020), the 2024 Outstanding Calgary Artist Award, as well as
- [Events](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/events/) - May 21st at 5 pm (MST) - Zoom reading and Tertulia The Luso Canadian letters and literature have grown across all global diasporas, including our far and wide Canada. Join us for a lively contemporary mix of Luso Canadian authors reaching you across the globe on Zoom. Hosted by Diniz Borges - Portuguese Beyond Borders
- [Trust the Bluer Skies](https://www.paulodacosta.ca/trust-the-bluer-skies/) - Trust the Bluer SkiesMeditations on FatherhoodBy paulo da costa Categories: Personal Memoirs, FatherhoodPaperback : 9780889779921, 256 pages, March 2024Expected to ship: 2024-03-02PRE-ORDER Available on pre-order from amazon.ca and chapters / indigo.ca or from your local independent bookstore Shelf Life Books, Pages, Owl’s Nest and Others in Calgary or in your own town. Description Award-winning author
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