da COSTA, Paulo
Victoria, BC
www.paulodacosta.com


Portuguese-English
English-Portuguese
Spanish-English
Biographical Data

paulo da costa was born in Angola and raised in Portugal. His first book of fiction, The Scent of a Lie, received the 2003 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book in the Caribbean & Canada region and the W.O. Mitchell (City of Calgary) Book Prize. His poetry and fiction have been published in literary magazines around the world and have been translated to Italian, Spanish, Slovenian, Serbian and Portuguese. In Portuguese the forthcoming book of poems eco(lógico) - Livros Pé d'Orelha, 2007 follows his inaugural notas de rodapé. paulo is also the recipient of the 2003 ProVerbo Portuguese language prize in poetry as well as in fiction. A writer, editor and translator, paulo lives on Vancouver Island and at www.paulodacosta.com.

As a translator paulo da costa has translated to the Portuguese poets as diverse as Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, Patrick Lane, Richard Harrison, Weyman Chan, rajinderpal s. pal, Joelene Heathcote and Shane Rhodes. To the English he has translated the Portuguese poets: Al Berto, Nuno Júdice, José Tolentino Mendonça, Rita Taborda Duarte and Daniel Faria. Brazilian poets: Mauro Faccioni Filho and Ricardo Corona. Angolan poet Paula Tavares. From the Spanish he has translated the Mexican poets: Coral Bracho and Verónica Volkow and the Peruvian fiction writer Eduardo González-Viaña. And Serb writer David Albahari.

Selected Publications:

      Fiction
The Scent of a Lie – short stories – Ekstasis Editions, 2002, ISBN: 1-894800-07-9

       Poetry
notas-de-rodapé - Portuguese poems – Livros Pé d'Orelha, 2005 ISBN - 972-99543-0-5
eco (lógico) - Portuguese poems – Livros Pé d'Orelha, 2007 (forthcoming)


       Anthologies

New Writing 14, Granta UK 2006 - ISBN 1-86207-850-5
“3 poems” in TransLit - Volume VII - ATIA 2006 ISBN: 0969837143
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, Maureen Ranson. ATIA 2004, ISBN: 0969837135.
Vilenica - Slovenian Writers' Association 2003
“The Breath of Memory” in Writing On Air, D. Rothenberg and W. Pryor eds. MIT Press 2003.
“Untitled” in TransLit - Volume V, Maureen Ranson. Red Deer Press 2001, ISBN: 0889952507.
“Hell's Mouth Bay” in Original Sins, Canongate UK 2001, ISBN: 1 84195 081 5.


 
    Audio Chap-CDs

XX poemas - Portuguese poems - Livros Pé d'Orelha - 2006 ISBN 978-972-99543-2-0  
Twenty Poems – English Poems - Livros Pé d'Orelha – 2006 ISBN 0-9781847-0-X
Midwife of Torment & Other Stories- Sudden Fiction - Livros Pé d'Orelha 2005 ISBN 0-9781847-1-8
notas-de-rodapé - Portuguese poems – Livros Pé d'Orelha 2005 ISBN 972-99543-1-3  

Translated Works

      Literary Translation
The Cartography of Being – Translated poems of Nuno Júdice 1970-2005 - (forthcoming) 
 


Awards:

Best First Book, Canada & Caribbean Region of the Commonwealth Writers Prize 2003.
The City of Calgary W. O. Mitchell Book Prize 2002.
Canongate Prize for Short-Fiction 2001.

   Portuguese:
Prémio ProVerbo - Poesia, 2003.
Prémio ProVerbo - Conto, 2003.


 E-mail:
Website: www.paulodacosta.com