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| Name | paulo da costa |
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| Website | paulodacosta.ca |
| Location | Calgary, Alberta |
| Biography | Born in Angola, and raised in Portugal, paulo da costa is a writer, editor and translator living in the Rocky Mountains of Canada. He is the recipient of the 2023 and 2020 James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction, the 2003 Commonwealth First Book Prize for the Canada-Caribbean Region, the W. O. Mitchell City of Calgary Book Prize and the Canongate Prize for short fiction. His poetry, fiction and non-fiction have been published widely in literary magazines around the world and translated into Italian, Spanish, Serbian, Slovenian and Portuguese. Trust the Bluer Skies: Meditations of Fatherhood, a book of creative non-fiction,was published in 2024 with University of Regina Press. |
| Publications | Bibliography Creative Non-Fiction Trust the Bluer Skies: Meditations on Fatherhood, University of Regina Press, March 2024 ISBN-13: 9780889779921, 256 pages, March 2024 Fiction The Midwife of Torment & Other Stories, 60 sudden fictions _ Guernica Editions, 2017 ISBN-13: 978-1771831628 The Green and Purple Skin of the World, Freehand Books, 2013 ISBN-13: 978-1554811397 The Scent of a Lie, LPO 2012 _ 2nd edition ISBN: 978-0978184766 Essays Beyond Bullfights and Ice Hockey, Boavista Press 2015 ISBN-10: 9960511-3-2 / ISBN-13: 978-0-9960511-3-2 Ficcao O Perfume da Mentira, Livros Pe d'Orelha 2012 _ ISBN 978-972-99543-6-8 Poetry / Poesia Cartography of Being, Selected Poems of Nuno Jìdice, Livros Pe d'Orelha, 2012 ISBN: 978-0-9781847-5-9 notas-de-rodape _ Portuguese poems _ Livros Pe d'Orelha, 2005 ISBN: 972-99543-0-5 Anthologies –Leaves Bleeding” flash fiction- Heritage Publishing, 2019 ISBN: 978-1772032888 Short-story in Tesseracts XX, Edge Publishing, 2017 ISBN: 9781770531482 –3 poems” in Writers of the Portuguese Diaspora, Boavista Press, 2015 ISBN 978-0996051125 –ser portugues” in Mem„ria, Fidalgo Books, 2013 ISBN 978-0986056505 –2 poems” in TransLit _ Volume IX _ATIA, 2012 ISBN 1478140380 Two Essays, in Beyond Words, Banff Centre Press 2010, ISBN 978-1-894-77338-6 –Turning the Page” in New Writing 14, Granta UK 2006 _ ISBN 1-86207-850-5 –3 poems” in TransLit _ Volume VII _ ATIA 2006 ISBN: 0969837143 •poem” in Dance the Guns to Silence, Flipped Eye Publishing 2005, UK, ISBN: 1905233019 Writing Across Canada: Mapping the Country in 19 Chapters _ Nightwood Editions 2004 –4 poems” in TransLit _ Volume VI, ATIA 2004, ISBN: 0969837135 Vilenica Anthology _ Slovenian Writersê Association 2003 –The Breath of Memory” in Writing On Air, D. Rothenberg and W. Pryor eds. MIT Press 2003 –Untitled” in TransLit _ Volume V, Red Deer Press 2001, ISBN: 0889952507 –Hellês Mouth Bay” in Original Sins, Canongate UK 2001, ISBN: 1 84195 081 5 Audio Chapbooks / Livros em Audio The Book of Catalogues _ Sudden Fiction _ Livros Pe d'Orelha 2010 ISBN 978-0-9781847-2-8 XX poemas _ Portuguese poems _ Livros Pe d'Orelha _ 2006 ISBN 978-972-99543-2-0 Twenty Poems _ English Poems _ Livros Pe d'Orelha _ 2006 ISBN 0-9781847-0-X notas-de-rodap_ _ Portuguese poems _ Livros Pe d'Orelha 2005 ISBN 972-99543-1-3 |
| Awards | 2023 James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction 2003 Caribbean & Canada Region Commonwealth Writers Prize _ First Book 2002 W.O. Mitchell City of Calgary Book Prize 2001 Canongate Short-Fiction Prize (Scotland) 1999 CBC Alberta Anthology _ Short Story Portuguese 2003 ProVerbo . Premio _ Poesia (Poetry Prize _ Portuguese) 2003 ProVerbo . Premio _ Conto (Short-Story Prize _ Portuguese) |
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