In the October 2024 edition of the FLAD Translations Program, nine works were selected, whose translation from English to Portuguese and from Portuguese to English will be supported by FLAD. Applications for the May competition are between May 1st and 31st, 2025.

In October 2024, FLAD held a new edition of the program for 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, nine works were chosen, proposed by various 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 May 1st and 31st, 2025.

Selected works:

Book: This Strange Eventful History Author: Claire Messud Publisher PT: Edições ASA II S.A. Publisher USA: W.W. Norton & Company Synopsis: A family torn apart by war, geography, politics, religion, over three generations.

 

 

Book: Knockemstiff Author: Donald Ray Pollock Publisher PT: Cutelo Editions Publisher USA: Vintage Publishing Synopsis: Hard-hitting, brutal, but infused with a deep sympathy, Knockemstiff is a collection of hilarious and dark stories set in a small town in southern Ohio. The young of Knockemstiff grow up in the evil shadow of their parents.

 

Book: Florida Author: Lauren Groff Publisher PT: Cutelo Editions USA Publisher: Riverhead Books Synopsis: In her new book, vigorous and moving, Lauren Groff brings her electric storytelling and wit to a world where storms, snakes and holes lurk within the confines of everyday life, but the greatest threats and mysteries are human in nature, emotional and psychological. Among those navigating through all this are a pair of abandoned sisters, a lonely boy, now grown up; a restless couple without children; a homeless woman who is searching; and an unforgettable and recurring character – a firm and conflicted wife and mother.

 

Book: James Author: Percival Everett Publisher PT: Livros do Brasil/Porto Publisher USA Publisher: Doubleday Synopsis: James is a captivating and fiercely funny novel that leaves an indelible mark, forcing us to see Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in a whole new and transformative light. From the shadows of Huck Finn’s mischievous spirit, Jim emerges to reclaim his voice, defying the conventions that have consigned him to the margins. Nominated for the 2022 Booker Prize for his novel The Trees, Professor Percival Everett is one of the most decorated writers today.

 

Book: The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study Author: Fred Moten and Stefano Harney Publisher PT: Snob Publisher USA: Minor Compositions Synopsis: In this series of essays, Fred Moten and Stefano Harney draw on the theory and practice of the black radical tradition as it supports, inspires, and broadens contemporary social and political thought and aesthetic criticism. Today, the general wealth of social life is confronted with mutations in the mechanisms of control, from the proliferation of capitalist logistics to governance by credit and the management of pedagogy. Working from and within the social poesis of life in the subcommons, Moten and Harney develop and expand a series of concepts: study, debt, siege, planning and expedition. On the fugitive path of a historical and global blackness, the essays in this volume unsettle and invite the reader into the self-organized ensembles of social life that are thrown every day and every night in the midst of the general antagonism of the sub-commons.

 

Book: On Anarchism Author: Noam Chomsky Publisher PT: Antigone – Refractory Publishers Publisher USA: Penguin Synopsis: Presents an introduction to Noam Chomsky’s political theory. This title brings together his essays and interviews to provide a brief and accessible introduction to his distinctively optimistic brand of anarchism.

 

Book: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Author: Annie Dillard Publisher EN: Antigone – Refractory Publishers USA Publisher: Harper Synopsis: This winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1975 and ranked by the New York Times as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of the century, presents timeless reflections on loneliness, writing and faith in the midst of beauty, albeit sometimes brutal, nature’s world on the author’s doorstep, in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.

 

Book: Lucy Author: Jamaica Kincaid Publisher PT: Alfaguara/Penguin Random House Publisher USA: FSG Synopsis: Lucy, a teenager from the Caribbean, arrives in the United States to work as an au-pair in the home of a middle-class family. Everything is new to her: the climate, human relationships and the environment. Lewis, Mariah and their four daughters are an almost perfect family: beautiful, rich and seemingly happy. Even so, Lucy begins to find fault with her impeccable façade. With a sharp and piercing gaze, with a bar of anger and compassion, Lucy will review the assumptions and truths of her new environment, comparing them with the reality of her home country. In the process of becoming an adult woman, Lucy will reflect on the cruelty of her past and the troubled relationship with her mother and, with a perfect combination of sensitivity and rationality, she will gradually discover that she is not willing to be deceived by the new reality that surrounds her. Jamaica Kincaid has created a surprising character, endowed with fertile clarity and integrity: a captivating heroine.

 

Book: MotelX’s Lost Room – The Portuguese Horror Films (1911-2006) Author: Coordination João Monteiro and Filipa Rosário Publisher PT: CTX – Lisbon Horror Club USA Publisher: Severin Films Synopsis: At the 3rd edition of MOTELX – Lisbon International Horror Film Festival, held in 2009, the Lost Room section was inaugurated as follows: «the cinematographic past was not a dark age of fantasy and horror cinema, we explored the archives of the Cinemateca in order to discover films and authors that could define “Portuguese horror” and this year we start the Lost Room section, which every year will recover from oblivion works that would otherwise be impossible to access». By proposing a list of national films, “MOTELX’s Lost Room” takes up the initial objective of the section. This book presents, then, a set of texts about these works, offering a first look at them, a consolidated look in the light of the genre and, naturally, of contemporaneity, far from the internecine wars that caused the oblivion of some of them. With this initiative, MOTELX offers a new perspective on our cinematographic past, whose stories and characters are somewhat forgotten.