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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 town of Raminho on
the island of Terceira, 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
Alpendre Theater. In Spring 2002 he 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). 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 the novel has been taught in North American
university courses in
Modern Portuguese Fiction
and Portuguese Island Culture. Random House Kodansha just published
Kiwamu Hamaoka's
Japanese translation of the novel in Spring
2008 (see cover art, below).
OTHER BOOKS PUBLISHED BY ÁLAMO OLIVEIRA:
ANTHOLOGIES
2003
O meu coração é assim (edited by Diniz Borges, with preface)
1984 Triste Vida Leva a Garça (1967-81)
FICTION
1999 Já não gosto de chocolates
1997 Com Perfume e com Veneno
1992
Pátio d'Alfândega meia-noite
1991 Contos com desconto
1986 Até hoje (memórias de cão)
1982 Burra preta com uma lágrima
POETRY
1998 António, porta-te como uma flor
1992 Impressões de boca
1987 Erva-azeda
1986 Textos inocentes
1983 Nem Mais Amor que Fogo, with Emanuel Jorge Botelho
1982 Itinerário das gaivotas
1980 Eu fui ao Pico piquei-me
1979 Cantar o corpo
1976 Os quinze misteriosos mistérios
1974 Fábulas
1973 Poemas de(s)amor
1971 Pão verde
1968 A vinha mão aberta
PLAYS
2004 A solidão da casa do regalo
2002 Judite--nome de guerra, Almada Negreiro (adapted)
1999 Morte que mataste lira, with Carlos Alberto Moniz
1995 Os sonhos do infante, 2nd edition
1994 Manuel, seis vezes pensei em ti, 2nd edition
1984 Missa terra lavrada
1984 Sabeis quem é este João?
1981 Uma hortênsia para Brianda
1974 Morte ou vida do poeta
1974 Um Quixote, 2nd edition
ESSAYS
1996 Olá, pobreza!
1982 Quando o mar galgou a terra (abordagem)
1978 Almeida Firmino / Poeta dos Açores |
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 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 is President of the Council of Portuguese
Communities for the United
States, Canada and Bermuda, 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 co-chaired the Luso-American
Education Foundation’s 30th annual
conference in Tulare
in 2006,
and was recently elected Vice President of the
Tulare-Angra do Heroísmo Sister City Foundation. He is
President
of the
APPEU&C [Association of Portuguese Teachers of the US and
Canada], in which capacity he led their summer 2008 teachers
conference in the Azores.
OTHER BOOKS PUBLISHED BY DINIZ BORGES:
2005 O outro lado da saudade (collected newspaper columns, 1997-2005)
2004 Nem sempre a saudade chora - antologia de poesia açoriana sobre
emigração
2003
O meu coração é assim (anthology of works by Álamo Oliveira,
with preface)
2003 On a Leaf of Blue (bilingual anthology of contemporary Azorean
poetry)
2003 América: O outro rosto
2002 Alfred Lewis: Escritor de emoções
2000 Uma outra América: textos do real e do utópico
1996 América: outro lado do sonho
 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
My Californian Friends: Poetry
and are now working on Dr.
Eduardo Mayone Dias'
The Portuguese Presence in California (both to
be published by Portuguese Heritage Publications of California in Spring 2009); she
has also finished a draft of Álamo
Oliveira's
play Bocas de mulheres [The
Mouths of Women], and is
collaborating with
Glenna Luschei on a portfolio of Azorean
literature in translation. Contributions by her have appeared in Maré
Cheia, the fine-arts section of the Portuguese Tribune. She created and regularly updates this website.
OTHER TRANSLATIONS BY
KATHARINE BAKER:
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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here to order
I No Longer Like Chocolates now.
Cover art for the Japanese
edition.
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