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In Spring 2002 Álamo became the first Portuguese writer-in-residence at the University of California-Berkeley. Other honors include the Prémio de Teatro Almeida Garrett for his play A solidão da casa do regalo and the Maré Viva prize for the novel Até hoje (memórias de cão). He is one of three major Azorean writers profiled in the 2005 Portuguese documentary Aventuras do Espirito, which includes a biographical sketch and commentaries by the author, as well as Álamo reading from his short-story collection Com Perfume e com Veneno.
Various writings of Álamo's have been translated into English, French, Spanish, Croatian and Japanese. Copies of his novel Já não gosto de chocolates, from which I No Longer Like Chocolates is translated, are held in over a dozen major academic and public libraries throughout the United States, and it has been taught in North American university courses in Modern Portuguese Fiction and Portuguese Island Culture. Random House Kodansha published Kiwamu Hamaoka's Japanese translation of I No Longer Like Chocolates in 2008 (see cover art, below right). OTHER BOOKS PUBLISHED BY ÁLAMO OLIVEIRA:
ANTHOLOGIES |
OTHER BOOKS BY DINIZ BORGES:
2005 O outro lado da saudade (collected newspaper columns, 1997-2005)
OTHER TRANSLATIONS BY KATHARINE BAKER: 2009 My Californian Friends: Poetry by Vasco Pereira da Costa (translated with Diniz Borges) [October 2009] 2008 Álamo Oliveira's essay in Capelinhos: A Volcano of Synergies (50th anniversary of eruptions) 2007 ILHA, by Gabriela Silva (poems translated with Sandy Ventura; photos by Kristie McLean)
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Cover art for the Japanese edition.
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Author
ÁLAMO OLIVEIRA – one of the Azores' most acclaimed and prolific living
writers and leading cultural figures – was born in the village of Raminho on
the island of Terceira. He studied Philosophy at the Angra do Heroísmo Seminary and served in the Portuguese
army in Guinea-Bissau. Although the rest of his immediate family emigrated
to California, Álamo remained in the Azores, where he pursued a
distinguished government career in addition to being a novelist, poet,
playwright, lyricist, essayist, public speaker, painter and founder-director
of Angra do Heroísmo’s leading theater company, the
Translator
DINIZ BORGES,
Tulare County's High
School
Teacher of the Year for 2007-8, teaches Portuguese at Tulare Union HS and
at College of the Sequoias, where he directs its Institute for Azorean-American
Studies. The Praia da Vitória, Terceira, native holds a B.A. from Chapman
University and M.A. from California State University-Dominguez Hills. He writes
regularly on American topics for Portuguese-language newspapers in the
US, Canada and Portugal, edits the fine-arts section of the
California-based Portuguese Tribune and, since 1990, has moderated a
cultural television program on KNXT-49 in Fresno. Diniz was President of the
Council of Portuguese
Translator
KATHARINE BAKER, a
second-generation native Californian with roots on the islands of Flores and
São Jorge in the Azores, earned degrees from the University of
California-Berkeley and the University of Maryland, and studied Portuguese
at the University of Pittsburgh. Among other translating projects, she and
Diniz Borges have completed Vasco Pereira da Costa's 