“Ana Margarida de Carvalho: a conversation with the writer”
(Claire T. Carney Library ) Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American-Archives
Antonio Ladeira
(806) 642-3320
aladeira@umassd.edu
Ana Margarida de Carvalho was born in Lisbon, where she earned a degree in Law and worked as a journalist for 25 years, writing film reviews and columns. Her debut novel, Que Importa a Fúria do Mar [What Matters is the Fury of the Sea], won critical acclaim, was a finalist for several awards, and unanimously received the 2013 APE/DGLAB Grand Prize for Novel and Novella. Her second novel, Não Se Pode Morar nos Olhos de um Gato [You Can't Live in a Cat's Eyes], was nominated for Book of the Year by the SPA, became a finalist for the Oceanos Prize, won the Manuel de Boaventura Literary Prize, and once again won the 2016 APE/DGLAB Grand Prize for Novel and Novella, making her part of the select group of Portuguese authors to receive this distinction twice. Ten years after its first edition, Que Importa a Fúria do Mar was reissued by Relógio d’Água with a preface and afterword, marking the 50th anniversary of the April 25th Revolution and the closure of the Tarrafal Concentration Camp in Santiago, Cape Verde, where the book's plot is set. In Brazil, her work is published by Dublinense. Her latest novel, O Vento que Lança Areia do Saara [The Wind that Casts Sahara Sand] (2025), won the Inês de Castro Prize and marks the author's transition to the Companhia das Letras (Penguin) imprin
This talk will be in Portuguese
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