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The Portuguese writer José Luís Peixoto was honored, Tuesday, by the Oceans – Prize for Literature in the Portuguese Language. The book “Galveias” convinced the jury.
The Portuguese writer José Luís Peixoto is the winner of the literary prize the Oceans with his novel “Galveias”. The prize the Oceans is organized by the Itaú Cultural in Brazil, and has four authors with the Prize for Literature in the Portuguese Language.
Born in Galveias, in the Alentejo, in 1974, José Luís Peixoto gained notoriety in 2001 when he won the prize José Saramago the novel “No look”, included in the list of Financial Times ‘ best books published in the United Kingdom, in 2007.
The book “Galveias” was published in October 2014 by editora Quetzal, and its narrative focuses on key characters in the face of the fall of a meteorite in the town of the alentejo region. To the jury, the work is “a dive in the Uk, deep rural, with a narrative that aligns the emblematic characters of this universe the archaic”.
in addition To the Portuguese, the brazilians Julián Fuks, Ana Martins Marques and Arthur Brock, were chosen by the trustees of the reward – the teacher and essayist Beatriz Resende, the writers Cristovão Tezza, Joseph Castello and Rodrigo Lacerda and the poets Heitor Ferraz Mello e Sérgio Alcides.
The finalists were chosen from a list of 50 works semifinalists who harboured the genres of poetry, novel, tale, chronicle, and drama. The Portuguese author Gonçalo M. Tavares was among the ten finalists with the novel “A girl is lost in her century looking for the father.”
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