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Portuguese Literature

Requiem [Buy Direct]

by Antonio Tabucchi
Translated by Margaret Jull Costa
Original title: Requiem

Italian novelist Antonio Tabucchi wrote this story in Portuguese because, he says, a story like this could only be written in Portuguese. It was published in Lisbon (1991) before the Italian version came out (1992). But then Professor Tabucchi, (more...)

The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis [Buy Direct]

by José Saramago
Translated by Giovanni Pontiero
Original title: O Ano da morte de Ricardo Reis

Baltasar and Blimunda [Buy Direct]

by José Saramago
Translated by Giovanni Pontiero
Original title: Memorial do Convento

Illustrious House of Ramires [Buy Direct]

by Eça de Queirós
Translated by Ann Stevens
Original title: A Illustre Casa de Ramires

Like his French contemporary Huysmans, Eça de Queiros started his writing career as a disciple of Zola but came of age as a satirist rather than a realist. His protagonist in The Illustrious House of Ramires, Gonçalo Ramires or ‘The Nobleman of the Tower’, (more...)

The Gospel According to Jesus Christ [Buy Direct]

by José Saramago
Translated by Giovanni Pontiero
Original title: O Evangelho segundo Jesus Cristo

This book assumes an honourable place among works of fiction exploring or using the life of Christ. (more...)

Act of the Damned [Buy Direct]

by António Lobo Antunes
Translated by Richard Zenith
Original title: Auto dos danados

Act of the Damned is a portrait of two things; the corrupt ruling class which fattened itself for decades under Salazar and of Portugal’s revolutionary year of 1974-75. (more...)

An Explanation of the Birds [Buy Direct]

by António Lobo Antunes
Translated by Richard Zenith
Original title: Explicação dos pássaros

Lobo Antunes employs a colloquial, omnivorous language that digests trauma and black comedy and nourishes readers hungry for literature which meets life head on. An Explanation of the Birds is the work of a consummate technician, a shocking artist. (more...)

Lusiads [Buy Direct]

by Luis de Camôes
Translated by William C. Atkinson
Original title: Os Lusíads

The Maias [Buy Direct]

by Eça de Queirós
Translated by Ann Stevens
Original title: Os Maias

Eça de Queirós was one of the leading intellectuals of the ‘Generation of 1870’, highly concerned with the future of his country in the aftermath of the civil war of 1828-1834. Portugal had emerged from this internal struggle as a constitutional monarchy, (more...)

Always Astonished: Selected Prose [Buy Direct]

by Fernando Pessoa
Translated by E Honig

A valuable, accessible little collection of varied pieces from His Supreme Quirkiness, Fernando Pessoa. Pessoa published little in his lifetime but amassed a great pile of writings which have only recently been published in various forms. (more...)

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