Issue 70. Party
Luísa Costa Gomes
Luísa Costa Gomes (Lisbon, 16 June 1954) is a Portuguese writer, playwright and translator.
With a degree in Philosophy from the University of Lisbon, she has taught in secondary education. She debuted as a writer with 13 Contos de Sobressalto (1982), and since then has written short stories, novels and drama. She has written chronicles for O Independente, Público and Diário de Notícias newspapers. She does literary translation, in particular for the theatre, and was responsible for publishing Ficções magazine, devoted to the dissemination of short stories by both Portuguese and foreign writers.
She also works in partnership, like in the novel O Defunto Elegante, with Abel Barros Baptista, the libretto for White Crow, an opera by Philip Glass staged by Bob Wilson, premiered at Expo 98, in Lisbon, and the cantata Sobre o Vulcão with music by Luís Brangança Gil.
In 1988 she received the D. Dinis Prize from the Casa de Mateus Foundation for the novel O Pequeno Mundo. In 1994 she was awarded the Máxima Literature Prize for Olhos Verdes. In 2010 she was awarded the Fernando Namora Prize for the novel Ilusão ou O Que Quiserem.
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47.Journey
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19.Europe
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