José Luís Peixoto
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José Luís Peixoto is a Portuguese
writer who has written fiction, poetry, drama, lyrics and has participated in a wide number of projects involving writing.
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 Implacable 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.
As far as drama is concerned, José Luís Peixoto wrote Anathema (premiered in Théâtre de la Bastille in Paris), À Manhã (premiered in Teatro São Luiz, Lisbon
) and "Quando o Inverno Chegar" also in Teatro São Luiz, Lisbon
).
In 2007, "The Piano Cemetery" was distinguished with Spanish Calamo Literary Award for the best novel published in Spanish translation on the previous year.
His works have been published in France, Italy, Greece, Bulgaria
, Turkey
, Finland, Holland, Spain (Spanish and Catalan), Czech Republic
, Croatia
, Belarus
and Brazil
, United States, United Kingdom, Hungary and so on. His novels are translated in a total of 20 languages.
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".
His second novel in English translation is "The Piano Cemetery". Published by Bloomsbury in 2010.
His first title "Morreste-me" ("You died on me") was published on the December 2010 issue of Warwick Review, published by the Warwick University.
Jose Luis Peixoto is Portugal's most acclaimed, prize-winning young novelist.
Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
writer who has written fiction, poetry, drama, lyrics and has participated in a wide number of projects involving writing.
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
Poetry
Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...
and fiction
Fiction
Fiction is the form of any narrative or informative work that deals, in part or in whole, with information or events that are not factual, but rather, imaginary—that is, invented by the author. Although fiction describes a major branch of literary work, it may also refer to theatrical,...
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 Implacable 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
Gothic metal
Gothic metal or goth metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music that combines the aggression of doom metal with the dark melancholy of gothic rock. The music of gothic metal is diverse with bands known to adopt the gothic approach to different styles of heavy metal music...
band Moonspell
Moonspell
Moonspell is a Portuguese gothic metal band from Brandoa, Lisbon. Formed in 1992, the group released their first EP Under the Moonspell in 1994, a year before the release of their first album Wolfheart...
and together they produced a book and record, The Antidote.
As far as drama is concerned, José Luís Peixoto wrote Anathema (premiered in Théâtre de la Bastille in Paris), À Manhã (premiered in Teatro São Luiz, Lisbon
Lisbon
Lisbon is the capital city and largest city of Portugal with a population of 545,245 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Lisbon extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of 3 million on an area of , making it the 9th most populous urban...
) and "Quando o Inverno Chegar" also in Teatro São Luiz, Lisbon
Lisbon
Lisbon is the capital city and largest city of Portugal with a population of 545,245 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Lisbon extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of 3 million on an area of , making it the 9th most populous urban...
).
In 2007, "The Piano Cemetery" was distinguished with Spanish Calamo Literary Award for the best novel published in Spanish translation on the previous year.
His works have been published in France, Italy, Greece, Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...
, Turkey
Turkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...
, Finland, Holland, Spain (Spanish and Catalan), Czech Republic
Czech Republic
The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....
, Croatia
Croatia
Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...
, Belarus
Belarus
Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...
and Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
, United States, United Kingdom, Hungary and so on. His novels are translated in a total of 20 languages.
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".
His second novel in English translation is "The Piano Cemetery". Published by Bloomsbury in 2010.
His first title "Morreste-me" ("You died on me") was published on the December 2010 issue of Warwick Review, published by the Warwick University.
Jose Luis Peixoto is Portugal's most acclaimed, prize-winning young novelist.
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 - CalCalCal may refer to:* CAL Actor Language, a dataflow language used within MPEG Reconfigurable Video Coding group to describe MPEG video decoders* Client Access License, a proprietary software license distributed by software companies such as Microsoft to allow clients to connect to its server software...
(fiction, narrative) - 2010 - Livro (novel)
Poetry
- 2001 - A Criança em Ruínas
- 2002 - A Casa, a Escuridão
- 2008 - Gaveta de Papéis
Columns
- Writes a regular column in the Portuguese cultural newspaper Jornal de Letras and in the Portuguese weekly magazine Visão.
Lyrics
- Has written lyrics for Da WeaselDa WeaselDa Weasel was a Portuguese hip-hop band from Almada, fronted by MCs Pacman and Virgul. They were one of the oldest hip-hop projects in Portugal, having been created in 1993 and terminated in 2010, and notorious for being a full session band, instead of relying on a DJ and samples...
, MísiaMísiaMísia is a Portuguese fado singer, born in 1955 in Porto, Portugal. Mísia is a polyglot. Despite singing mostly fado, she sings some of her themes in Spanish, French, Catalan, English and even Japanese...
, A Naifa, Joana Amendoeira and Quinta do BillQuinta do BillQuinta do Bill is a Portuguese musical group of folk-rock formed in 1987 near Tomar.-Beginning:In September 1987 at Mr...
, among several others.
Literary Prizes
- Prémio Jovens Criadores, Instituto Português da Juventude in 1997, 1998 and 2000
- Prémio José SaramagoJosé SaramagoJosé de Sousa Saramago, GColSE was a Nobel-laureate Portuguese novelist, poet, playwright and journalist. His works, some of which can be seen as allegories, commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the human factor. Harold Bloom has described Saramago as "a...
, from "Fundação Círculo de Leitores", 2001. - Prémio de Poesia Daniel Faria, 2008
- Prémio Cálamo Outra Mirada, 2008
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
- Belgium – La Mort du Père, 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 Mónika, Európa, 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:
- UK - The Piano Cemetery, transl. Daniel Hahn, Bloomsbury, 2010
- Spain - Cementerio de Pianos, trad. Carlos Acevedo, El Aleph, 2007
- France - Le Cimetière de Pianos, trad. François Rosso, Grasset, 2008
- Greece - Νεκροταφείο Πιάνων, Εκδόσεις Ελληνικά Γράμματα, 2009
- Romania - Cimitirul de piane, Polirom, 2010
- Israel - Bet kevarot li-fesanterim, trans. Erelah Lerer, Kineret:Zemorah-Bitan, 2011
- (Rights sold to Italy, Brazil, Nederlands, Israel).
- 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)