paulo da costa

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    • Beyond Bullfights and Ice Hockey
    • The Cartography of Being
    • The Green and Purple Skin of the World
    • The Scent of a Lie
    • The Midwife of Torment
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    • The Scent of a Lie – audio
    • The Book of Catalogues
    • The Midwife of Torment – audio
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    • notas de rodapé – audio
    • xx poemas
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    • O Perfume da Mentira
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  • Books
    • Beyond Bullfights and Ice Hockey
    • The Cartography of Being
    • The Green and Purple Skin of the World
    • The Scent of a Lie
    • The Midwife of Torment
  • Audio Books
    • The Scent of a Lie – audio
    • The Book of Catalogues
    • The Midwife of Torment – audio
    • Twenty Poems
    • notas de rodapé – audio
    • xx poemas
  • Livros
    • O Perfume da Mentira
    • notas de rodapé
  • Multimedia
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    The Group of Seven Reimagined: Contemporary Stories Inspired by Historic Canadian Paintings

    May 25, 2019 /

    ‘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, Michael Mirolla, Isabella Mori, Nina Munteanu, Waubgeshig Rice, Dr.Robert Runte, Karen Schauber, Nina Shoroplova, Mireille Silcoff, Mary Thompson, and stunning full-colour reproductions by the Group of Seven Canadian Modernist Landscape Painters, is now available on Amazon.ca for pre-order! (Bogo – buy one gift one!) Huge Congratulations to all the Contributors!

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    Interview in Portuguese-American Review

    December 21, 2015

    Impressive Stories – Edmonton Journal

    November 23, 2012

    Viva Da Costa

    November 22, 2012
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    Canadian Writers Abroad – reviews Midwife of Torment

    October 16, 2017 /

      The Midwife of Torment & Other Stories, Guernica Editions: 2017, 202 pages. Reviewed by Irene Marques Calling Us into Seeing and Being More: “Me” and the World The Midwife of Torment & Other Stories by paulo da costa is a book of short stories, or sudden fictions [under 1,000 words], divided into six parts: “Affections,” “Slowness,” “Aqua Libera,” “Beneath Our Beds,” “Force” and “Fathers.” In this collection, we find provoking thoughts unveiled slowly in an incantatory, lyrical language, revealing our deepest yearnings, frustrations, losses, insufficiencies, and happiness(es), too. His work makes us see, feel and be more: to have profound insights into our lives and the world; to understand…

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    Beneath Thin Skin – BC Bookworld feature

    June 6, 2013

    Mara Bettencourt sings poem by paulo da costa

    February 5, 2014

    Viva Da Costa

    November 22, 2012
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    Focus On Victoria – Magazine – w/ author paulo da costa

    July 8, 2017 /

    By Amy Reiswig An out-of-the-box thinker, writer, editor and translator believes in daring to be different for the social good. http://www.focusonvictoria.ca/julyaugust-2017/paulo-da-costa-the-midwife-of-torment-other-stories-r5/

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    Obligatory reading for the North American Luso Diaspora – impressions by Diniz Borges

    December 8, 2015

    All Lit Up – Flash Interview

    May 19, 2017

    Interview in Portuguese-American Review

    December 21, 2015
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    All Lit Up – Flash Interview

    May 19, 2017 /

    This Short Story Month, we’re interviewing short story writers every Wednesday, here on the All Lit Up blog. paulo da costa’s latest short story collection  The Midwife of Torment & Other Stories (Guernica Editions) is exclusively made up of “sudden fiction” – that is, stories under 1,000 words apiece. With stories like “Roses, Lilacs, and Chrysanthemums” (excerpted below) that manage to be succinct yet utterly evocative of their settings and characters, paulo likens Midwife to a “literary tapas” and shares some of his own influences, below. Read Interview  

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    Viva Da Costa

    November 22, 2012

    Obligatory reading for the North American Luso Diaspora – impressions by Diniz Borges

    December 8, 2015

    New World Odour

    November 18, 2012
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    Pleasant Troubles

    September 7, 2013 /

    A sudden, involuntary flaring of his tongue, a hideous contortion of his face; and apart from this peculiar affliction, Bonifácio Careta remained an ordinary child. The villagers believed everyone entered life with unique, God-given graces—some born to nose-picking, others to continuous spitting, others to limping. They never spent a second thought on Bonifácio. Bonifácio Careta’s life would have proceeded without remarkable attention if misfortune had not brought his peculiar condition to public notice. Bonifácio’s fortunes changed irrevocably on the occasion of the long-awaited Papal tour of the country with the Pontiff’s brief, unscheduled bathroom stop in Bonifácio’s forgotten village. While the Pontiff bestowed upon the gathering crowd his holy blessing,…

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    Beneath Thin Skin – BC Bookworld feature

    June 6, 2013

    Poetic & Lyrical – impressions by Irene Marques

    January 12, 2016

    All My Relations: Reflections on Home

    December 11, 2016

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Beyond Bullfights & Ice Hockey

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The Midwife of Torment

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