José Luís Peixoto
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José Luís Peixoto (born September 1974, in Galveias, Portalegre, Portugal), is a Portuguese writer who has written fiction, poetry, drama, lyrics and has participated in a wide number of projects involving writing.
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[edit] Biographical note
Jose Luis Peixoto was born in a small village from the south interior of Portugal, in the Portuguese region of Alentejo.
He has a degree in Modern English and German Literature in the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Before devoting himself to writing professionally, he taught for a year in Praia, Cabo Verde and in several cities in Portugal.
He has published poetry and fiction and received the Prize Jovens Criadores (Young Creators) in the years of 1997, 1998 and 2000.
In 2001, his novel Nenhum Olhar (Blank Gaze/The Implacabel Order of Things) received the Jose Saramago Literary Award.
Jose Luis Peixoto is represented in a great number Portuguese and international anthologies and he has collaborated in a lot of international literary magazines.
In 2003, in a totally unprecedented project, Peixoto joined forces with the Gothic metal band Moonspell and together they produced a book and record, The Antidote.
In 2005, he wrote the theatre plays Anathema (premiered in Theatre de la Bastille in Paris) and À Manhã (premiered in Teatro São Luiz, Lisbon.
His works have been published in France, Italy, Bulgaria, Turkey, Finland, Holland, Spain (Spanish and Catalan), Czech Republic, Croatia, Belarus and Brazil, United States, United Kingdom, Hungary and Japan.
His first novel in English translation ("Blank Gaze") was published in the UK in November 2007 by Bloomsbury and in September 2008 in the US (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday), under the title "The Implacable Order of Things".
Jose Luis Peixoto is the Portugal's most acclaimed, prize-winning young novelist.
[edit] Published works
[edit] Fiction
- 2000 - Morreste-me (fiction, narrative)
- 2000 - Nenhum Olhar (novel)
- 2002 - Uma Casa na Escuridão (novel)
- 2003 - Antidoto (fiction, narrative)
- 2006 - Cemitério de Pianos (novel)
- 2008 - Cal (fiction, narrative)
[edit] Poetry
- 2001 - A Criança em Ruínas
- 2002 - A Casa, a Escuridão
- 2008 - Gaveta de Papéis
[edit] Plays
- 2005 - Anathema
- 2005 - À Manhã
- 2007 - "Quando o Inverno Chegar"
[edit] Columns
- Writes a regular column in the Portuguese cultural newspaper Jornal de Letras and in the portuguese weekly magazine Visão.
[edit] Lyrics
- Has written lyrics for Da Weasel, Mísia, A Naifa, Joana Amendoeira and Quinta do Bill, among several others.
[edit] Literary Prizes
- Prémio Jovens Criadores, Instituto Português da Juventude in 1997, 1998 and 2000
- Prémio José Saramago, from "Fundação Círculo de Leitores", 2001.
- Prémio de Poesia Daniel Faria, 2008
- Prémio Cálamo Outra Mirada, 2008
[edit] Translated Works
- Morreste-me:
- Italy – Questa Terra ora Crudele, trad. Giulia Lanciani, La Nuova Frontiera, 2005
- Spain – Te me moriste, trad. Antonio Saez Delgado, E.R.E., 2004
- Catalonia – Te’m morrires, trad. Antoni Xumet Rosselo, El Gall, 2006
- Croatia – Umro si me, trad. Dean Trdak, 2004
- France – La Mort du Pére, trad. Marie Claire Vromans, I.C.B., 2002
- Nenhum Olhar:
- UK - Blank Gaze, trad. Richard Zenith, 2007
- USA - The Implacable Order of Things, trad. Richard Zenith, 2008
- Poland - Puste spojrzenie, trad. Wojciech Charchalis, Prószyński i S-ka, 2008
- France - Sans un Regard, trad. François Rosso, Grasset, 2003
- Nederlands – De Blik, trad. Piet Janssen, Meulenhoff, 2003
- Finland – Tyhja Taivas, trad. Tarja Harkonen, Wsoy, 2005
- Italy – Nessuno Sguardo, trad. Silvia Cavalieri, La Nuova Frontiera, 2002
- Spain – Nadie nos Mira, trad. Bego Montorio, Hiru, 2001
- Czech Republic – Nikdo se Nedív·, trad. Desislava Dimitrovova, Barrister, 2004
- Croatia – Nijedan Pogled, trad. Tanja Tarbuk, V.B.Z., 2004
- Turkey – Tek Bir Bakis Yeter, trad. Senem Sen, Arkadas, 2005
- Belarus – ********, 2006
- Bulgaria –********, Pet Plus, 2006
- Brazil – Nenhum Olhar, Agir/Ediouro, 2005
- Hungary - Egyetlen pillantás nélkül, trad Bense Monica, Europa, 2007
- (Rights sold to Greece)
- Uma Casa na Escuridão:
- France – Une Maison dans les Ténèbres, trad. François Rosso, Grasset, 2006
- Italy – Una Casa nel Buio, trad. Vicenzo Russo, La Nuova Frontiera, 2004
- Spain - Una Casa en la Oscuridad, Trad. Antonio Saez Delgado, El Aleph, 2008
- (Rights sold to UK, Spain)
- Cemitério de Pianos:
- Spain - Cementerio de Pianos, trad. Carlos Acevedo, El Aleph, 2007
- France - Le Cimetière de Pianos, trad. François Rosso, Grasset, 2008
- (Rights sold to Italy, Brazil, Nederlands, Israel, Greece).
- Antídoto
- Italy - L'Antidoto, Scritturapura, 2008
- A Casa, a Escuridão:
- Bulgária – **********, trad. Sidonia Pojarlieva e Vera Kipovka, 2006
- Criança em Ruínas
- (Rights sold to Spain, Brazil, Poland)
[edit] The José Luís Peixoto Literary Award
The Municipality of Ponte de Sor, in Portugal, has created a literary award for authors (under 25) with Jose Luis Peixoto's name.
[edit] References
- Jornal de Letras, Artes e Ideias, #945, December 20 - January 2, 2007 - Portugal.
