Harvill Secker Young Translators’ Prize --- DEADLINE 2 AUGUST 2013

The Harvill Secker Young Translators’ Prize was launched in 2010 to recognise the achievements of young translators at the start of their careers. This year the language of focus will be Portuguese. The winner’s name will be announced in October 2013, and he or she will receive £1000 and a selection of Harvill Secker titles. The winner will also participate in the British Centre for Literary Translation mentorship scheme, working with Margaret Jull Costa, and he or she will take part in Crossing Border Festival in November 2013.

Entrants will be asked to translate the short story ‘O sucesso’ by Brazilian author Adriana Lisboa, and fellow judges will be author Naomi Alderman, translator Margaret Jull Costa and literary reviewer Ángel Gurría-Quintana. The prize is open to anyone between the ages of 18 and 34, with no restriction on country of residence, and the deadline for entries is 2^nd August 2013.

The short story and details on how to enter are available here.

'If Paris is a woman, Lisbon should be a lesbian.'

Read the whole article here: Portugal's Sapphic Secret

(thanks to Anna Klobucka for this one!)

13 March - Welcoming Daniel Hahn

Daniel Hahn, José Eduardo Agualusa's English translator, will be visiting Cambridge this Wednesday, 13 March, to participate in two events which are open to all staff and students doing Portuguese. 

12noon (LB1) - Talk by Daniel Hahn on translating Nação Crioula
Daniel Hahn will be joining us to talk about his experience as translator of José Eduardo Agualusa's Nação Crioula: A Correspondência Secreta de Fradique Mendes into English.

3pm-5pm (RFB 142 - Media Centre) Translation Workshop, titled 'Translation as Practice'
Open to all students doing Portuguese at Cambridge. The workshop will be based on a short-story written by Agualusa (copies to be distributed on the day of the event).

 Click here to read an article penned by Daniel and published in the Guardian about the art and craft involved in translation.

 All are welcome!

Promised Land in Mozambique

Here is an interesting interview by Corinna Jentzsch with photographer and filmmaker Gregor Ziekle about his film documenting the relocation of families in Tete to make way for the Brazilian company Vale's coal mine project. (Via Kathleen Sheldon)

Yes, I did a PhD and did not go mad. Yet.

Check out the largest database for PhDs in Europe here.

Africa for Sweden! Challenging views of Africa

Africans unite to save Norwegians from dying of frostbite. You too can donate your radiator and spread some warmth!

Portugal em tempos de crise - dossier do New York Times

Click here to have a look at New York Times' frightening portrait of some of the consequences of Portuguese austerity measures (photography + text).

Neo-imperial online Christmas shopping, anyone?

Quinto Império foi criado para todos os que gostam de se divertir e que partilham o interesse de conhecer a história, a cultura, as marcas de Ser Português. Foi desenhado para juntar miúdos (maiores de 11 anos) e graúdos, em torno de viagens épicas pelos locais e tempos que contribuíram para sermos quem somos hoje. O desafio é simples: Escolhe a tua personagem e embarca numa viagem fantástica pelos locais e acontecimentos que representam a identidade portuguesa. Cada ponto do jogo (no tabuleiro) faz menção a influências, riquezas, locais e acontecimentos que de alguma forma marcaram a história de Portugal. Em cada jogada tu decides para onde viajas; terás sempre que por à prova o teu conhecimento (respondendo a questões, que te dão ouro ou acesso às riquezas portuguesas) e as tuas capacidades estratégicas: para arrecadar ouro, trocá-lo pelas mais valiosas mercadorias e, por fim adquirir os monumentos mais emblemáticos espalhados por todo o território de Portugal, que te dão os pontos necessários para ganhares o jogo.

(thanks to Anna Klobucka for sharing this link)

Granta - The Best of Young Brazilian Novelists - in Cambridge

Waterstones Public Reading at Cambridge

15 November 2012

(Ellah Allfrey, Michel Laub, Tatiana Levy, Nick Caistor)

Granta – Best of Young Brazilian Novelists Cambridge Symposium – 15 November 2012

Cambridge Launch of Granta - Best of Young Brazilian Novelists

3-5pm | Roundtable debate (Bowett Room, Queens’ College) with Brazilian writers Tatiana Salem Levy and Michel Laub, translator Nick Caistor and Granta deputy editor Ella Allfrey. Debate led by Rachel Brown and Matt Carless

6.30 -7.30pm | Public reading at Waterstones. ‘Tatiana Salem Levy, Michel Laub and Nick Caistor in conversation with  Ella Allfrey 

ALL WELCOME!

Monocle - mantendo um olho no mundo!

More exciting news about the global Portuguese push!

Monocle Magazine dedicates its issue 57 to the Lusophone world, including an Expo on Mozambique’s capital, an African architectural gem, and a culture story on why all eyes are glued to Portuguese-language television from Brazil. (Thanks to Ian Roberts who spotted the issue!)

Launched in February 2007, Monocle is a premium media brand with magazine, web, broadcast and retail divisions. Focusing on global affairs, business, culture and design, Monocle's mission is to keep an eye on the world.

Portuguese at Cambridge presents...

"Lovely flower: Contacts between popular and classical Brazilian music through the myth of the three sad races", by Professor Marco António da Silva Ramos.

11th October 2012 

5pm 

CC43 Queens' College 

 The talk discusses the many contacts between popular and classical Brazilian music from the viewpoint of Olavo Bilac, as expressed in his sonnet "Brazilian Music" in which he defines contact as the "lovely flower of three sad races". Through the use of recordings of African-Brazilian, native Brazilian and Portuguese music, set against the production of classical composers, Professor Marco António da Silva Ramos discusses the concept of contact in Brazilian music. The speech would be of interest to scholars, musicians and music lovers alike.

Org. Dr Ioanna Sitaridou

Portuguese at Cambridge presents...

Sem Flash is a 2012 documentary (dir. Bruno Z'Graggen) that captures images of Ricardo Rangel in 2003 in Maputo, during the launch of the exhibition Iluminando Vidas. Ricardo Rangel and the Next Generation (curated by Bruno Z'Graggen and Grant Lee Neuenburg). Rangel speaks about his origins, his experiences as a photojournalist during colonialism, and his love for jazz. His voice is complemented by that of other Mozambican photographers such as Ségio Santimano and Kok Nam, and Mozambican poet and journalist Luís Carlos Patraquim.

Ricardo Achiles Rangel (1924-2009) is Mozambique's foremost photojournalist and one of the greatest African journalists of the twentieth century. Following the tradition of Magnum photographers, Rangel adopted a very critical attitude towards Portuguese colonialism in Mozambique, and was as a result a frequent target of the infamous Portuguese secret police (PIDE). After independence (1975) he contributed to building the new socialist state. As a journalist and a teacher at the Centro de Formação Fotográfica, Rangel influenced a whole generation of young photographers, setting out the basis of a photographic tradition in Mozambique. His extraordinary photographic legacy spans a period of over fifty years. His masterpiece Pão nosso de cada noite [Our nightly bread] (1959-75) documents the intense nightlife of Lourenço Marques (Maputo) and brought him international recognition in the 1990s.


FREE ADMISSION - ALL WELCOME!

Save Portuguese at Utrecht!

The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Utrecht announced that the Faculty intends to shut down its BA program in Portuguese. Effects are to be felt very soon, with possible firing of all staff members after September 2012 and a last date for enrolment of students set for September 2013. This has been sent to the national press today and appeared in one of the most respected newspapers, the NRC Handelsblad. This is being done as a reaction to imposed budget cuts. However, in the plans announced so far Portuguese is the only Department that is targeted for a full shut down. Two other BA programmes, on Arabic and on Theology will be allowed to restructure and become part of related BA Programmes. For Portuguese no such option was contemplated; neither together with Spanish, nor in terms of Latin American Studies.

SPREAD THE NEWS AND WRITE a letter of complaint addressed to:

Chair of the Board of Governance of Utrecht University
Professor Yvonne van Rooy
Bestuursgebouw
Heidelberglaan 8
3584 CS
Utrecht
Netherlands

The wisdom of Brazil

Brazilian law to make philosophy classes compulsory is the world's largest-scale attempt to bring philosophy into the public sphere. Read more here. Via Feminist Philosophers.

A Cidade Maravilhosa

Olá,

More news from Cidade Maravilhosa! O Patrick tem um blog muito fixe onde detalha mais aventuras do YA:

http://theprinceandthepauper.tumblr.com/

Linda a foto da Luciana e do João Gabriel at the Favela Morro dos Prazeres!

Keep us posted.

Ana

It pays to speak Portuguese!

I was at the end of a very long queue outside the Uffizi in Florence when I heard a group of Brazilians behind me: "Gente, com quatro euro você entra logo sem fila nenhuma!" It turned out there was a much quicker way into the museum. Because it was Heritage Day you could buy a discount ticket and enter through another door. It saved me at least 2 hours!

Oi

Olá a todos, o que se passa? Já estou em Maputo e estou a curtir muito... Podem ler algo que escreví aqui. Há algumas fotos... hei-de fazer upload de mais daqui há pouco.

Hope you're all enjoying yourselves!

Oi Pessoal!

Ana, otima ideia e uma linda pagina de blog.

Estou de ferias na Dinamarca, depois de uma volta pela Suecia e Noruega, (por isso a falta de acentos). Aqui tudo muito civilizado, paisagens lindas, em tom pastel (cinza claro, verde claro, violeta, azul).

Desejo muita sorte a todos que estao chegando nos seus Year Abroad destinations.

Aproveitem e mandem noticias!

grande abraco,

Lucia

Oi! Lovely idea, Ana.

Brazil has been great so far, lots of lovely people, so much to do, and great food (mainly "açaí na tigela".. I'm addicted!). Brazilian bureaucracy is a massive headache, and for anyone else coming here (only Antonia and Patrick?), Rach and I might be able to save you a bit of hassle.

Good luck to Antonia who'll be livin' la vida loca in Mexico right now! When is everyone else planning on heading off?

Beijos,
Matt

p.s. anyone else interested in creating a subgroup in this blog of Year Abroad gossip (with Manucha's fear of her students returning to Cambridge pregnant or married in mind)??