In the May 2024 edition of the FLAD Translations Program, seven works were selected, whose translation from English to Portuguese will be supported by FLAD.
Applications for the October edition are between October 1st and 31st, 2024.
In May, FLAD held a new edition of the program of translations of literary works.
The objective is to support national publishers, helping to make works by American authors that would not otherwise reach Portuguese bookstores viable.
In this edition, seven works were chosen, proposed by several publishers, whose translation into Portuguese will now be supported by FLAD. This is a regular contest, which takes place twice a year. The next edition will take place between October 1st and 31st, 2024.
Selected works:Book:
Jewish Comedy: A Serious HistoryAuthor: Jeremy Dauber Publisher EN: Ziggurat Books Publisher USA: W.W. Norton & Company Synopsis: A rich account of Jewish humor: its nature, its development and its vital role throughout history.
Book: Another CountryAuthor: James Baldwin Publisher PT: Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Portugal Publisher USA: Vintage Books Synopsis: After the suicide of Rufus Scott, an embittered and unemployed black jazz musician, his sister Ida and his old friend Vivaldo become lovers.
However, their feelings for each other are complicated by Rufus’ friends, especially by homosexual actor Eric Jones, who was Vivaldo’s lover.
Author: Diane di Prima
Publisher PT: Trace edits
Publisher USA: City Lights
Synopsis: Feminist poet Beat Diane di Prima was born in Brooklyn, New York.
She attended Swarthmore College for two years before moving to Greenwich Village in Manhattan and becoming a writer in the emerging Beat movement.
There he developed friendships with the poets Amiri Baraka, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Frank O’Hara and Audre Lorde.
After joining Timothy Leary’s intentional community in upstate New York, he moved to San Francisco in 1968.
One of his poetry collections, The Poetry Deal, was also published by City Lights Publishers.
Di Prima was named the San Francisco Poet Laureate in 2009.
She is a recipient of the National Poetry Association’s Lifetime Service Award and the Fred Cody Lifetime Achievement Award, and has also received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Committee on Poetry, the Lapis Foundation, and the Institute for Aesthetic Development.
The University of St. Lawrence awarded him an honorary doctorate.
Book: Solitudes Crowded With Loneliness Author: Bob Kaufman Publisher PT: Edições Fantasma Publisher USA: New Directions Synopsis: Published in 1965, Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness brings together ten years of work by Bob Kaufman, famous in San Francisco as the original Beat and in France as “the American Rimbaud”. Book: Creation LakeAuthor: Rachel Kushner Publisher EN: Relógio D’Água Editors Publisher USA: Scribner Synopsis: A woman is caught in the crossfire between the past and the future in this novel that is part spy, part deep treatise on human history.
Sadie Smith – a 34-year-old undercover American agent with ruthless tactics, bold opinions and clean beauty – is sent by her mysterious but powerful employers to a remote corner of France.
His mission: to infiltrate a commune of radical ecological activists led by the charismatic Svengali Bruno Lacombe.
Sadie casts her cynical eye on this region of old farms and sleepy villages and, at first, finds Bruno’s idealism laughable – he lives in a Neanderthal cave and believes that the path to enlightenment is a return to primitivism.
But just as Sadie is sure that she is the seductress and puppet master of those she watches, Bruno Lacombe is seducing her with his ingenious counter-stories, his artistic laments, his own tragic story.
Book: Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for LifeAuthor: Peter Gray Publisher: Ziggurat Books USA: Perseus Books, group Hachette Synopsis: An expert in child development shows why unschooling is the best way to get children to learn.
Bookof Reading: Reading GenesisAuthor: Marilynne Robinson Publisher : Relógio D’Água Editors USA Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Synopsis: For generations, the book of Genesis has been treated by scholars as a collection of documents drafted by various hands, expressing different factional interests, with borrowings from other ancient literature marking the text as derivative.
In other words, the scholarly interpretation of Genesis has focused on the question of its basic coherence, just as the fundamentalist interpretation has focused on the question of the appropriateness of reading it as literally true.
Both approaches exclude an appreciation of its greatness as literature, its rich articulation and exploration of themes that resonate throughout Scripture. Marilynne Robinson’s Reading Genesis , which includes the full text of the King James Version of the book, is a powerful consideration of the deep meanings and promise of God’s enduring covenant with humanity.
This magisterial book radiates gratitude for the constancy and benevolence of God’s abiding faith in Creation.
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