Portuguese writer João Tordo attends Maputo Book Fair and Literatas Festival

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Portuguese writer João Tordo attends Maputo Book Fair and Literatas Festival

12:03 CAT | 03 Oct 2017

Sapo (File photo) / Portuguese writer João Tordo

Portuguese writer João Tordo, winner of the 2009 José Saramago Prize for ‘The Three Lives’ [As três vidas] will visit Maputo at the invitation of the Camões Portuguese Cultural Centre to participate in two literary initiatives taking place this week: the 3rd edition of the Maputo Book Fair, a Maputo Municipal Council initiative, and the third Literatas Festival, organised by the Kuphaluxa Association.

Tordo will participate in the Book Fair opening on Thursday, October 5, at 10:00 a.m. At 3:00 p.m. the same day, João Tordo (Portugal), Lucílio Manjate (Mozambique) and Paulo Lins (Brazil) will take part in a roundtable discussion titled ‘The Art of Storytelling’, moderated by journalist David Bamo.

Also on October 5, at 6:00 p.m., in the new creative space DEAL, the author will participate in a “Conversation from the works of João Tordo and Aldino Muianga”, moderated by Pedro Mbate.

As part of the Maputo Book Fair parallel program, on Friday, October 6, at 12 noon, Tordo will meet Portuguese language students from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of Eduardo Mondlane University to talk about “The Paths of Writing and Literary Reading”.

In addition to attending the Maputo Book Fair and giving autographs at the closing ceremony on Saturday, October 7 at 4:00 p.m., the writer will also participate in the third Literatas Festival, this year subtitled “Thinking Identities”.

Held on October 6 and 7 at the Carlos Tembe Auditorium in the city of Matola, Tordo will take part in the roundtable “When the book awakens us to life” alongside Hélder Faife (Mozambique) and Victor Hugo Mendes (Angola). The discussion, scheduled for October 7 at 2:00 p.m., will be moderated by Dionísio Bahule.

The Camões – Portuguese Cultural Centre in Maputo will have its own booth at the Book Fair, which runs from October 5th to 7th in the Jardim Tunduro, Maputo.

iteratas1 — Literatas festival poster (detail)

Biography:

João Tordo was born in Lisbon in 1975. He graduated in Philosophy from Universidade Nova de Lisboa and worked as a freelance journalist for several newspapers. He has lived in London and the United States. In 2001, he won the Young Creators Prize in the Literature category and, a few years later, the José Saramago Literary Prize 2009 with ‘The Three Lives’ [As Três Vidas] (2008). He was a finalist, with the same novel, in the Portugal Telecom Prize of 2011. With the novel O Bom Inverno [The Good Winter], 2010, Tordo was a finalist of the Best Book of Narrative Fiction of the Portuguese Society of Authors and the Fernando Namora Prize; the French translation of O Bom Inverno was among the finalists of the 6th edition of the European Literary Prize. His novels include O Livro dos Homens sem Luz [The Book of Men without Light] (2004), Hotel Memória (2007), Anatomia dos Mártires [The Anatomy of Martyrs] (2011) (Fernando Namora Prize Finalist 2012), O Ano Sabático [The Sabbatical Year] (2013), and Biografia involuntária dos amantes [Unintentonal Biography of Lovers] (2014), finalist of the Fernando Namora 2015 Prize and of the Best Narrative Fiction Book of the Portuguese Society of Authors 2015. His two most recent titles, O Luto de Elias Gro [The Mourning of Elias Gro] and O Paraíso Segundo Lars D [Paradise According to Lars D], were published in 2015, are part of a trilogy, now completed with the publication of O Deslumbre de Cecília Fluss [The Dazzling of Cecília Fluss]. His books are published in several countries including France, Italy, Germany, Hungary and Brazil.