Luísa Costa Gomes
Luísa Costa Gomes is a Portuguese chronicler, librettist, novelist, playwright and screenwriter.
Luísa has a University degree in Philosophy from Universidade de Lisboa and was high school teacher. Her first published piece was "13 Contos de Sobressalto" and from then on she wrote short stories, novels and theater. She collaborated with newspaper O Independente, Público and Diário de Notícias as chronicle writer. Luísa works with literary translation, namely for theater, and edited magazine Ficções dedicated to short stories both by Portuguese and foreign authors.
Luísa also co-writes works, such as the novel "O Defunto Elegante", together with Abel Barros Baptista; the libreto for "Corvo Branco", opera by Philip Glass and staged by Bob Wilson, debuted for Expo 98 in Lisbon; the cantata "Sobre o Vulcão", with music by Luís Brangança Gil.
Luísa received the award "Prémio D. Dinis" in 1988 by "Fundação da Casa de Mateus" for her novel "O Pequeno Mundo". She was awarded em 1994 the Prémio Máxima de Literatura for her novel "Olhos Verdes". In 2010 she was also awarded the Prémio Fernando Namora for the novel "Ilusão ou O Que Quiserem".Works
Short Stories
- "Treze contos de sobressalto"
- O Gémeo Diferente
- Contos Outra Vez Grande Prémio de Conto Camilo Castelo Branco
- Império do Amor
- Setembro e outros contos
Novel
- O Pequeno Mundo
- Vida de Ramón
- Olhos Verdes
- O Defunto Elegante - com Abel Barros Baptista
- Educação para a Tristeza
- A Pirata
- Ilusão
- Cláudio e Constantino''
Theater
- Nunca Nada de Ninguém
- Ubardo
- A Minha Austrália
- Clamor
- Duas Comédias
- Vanessa vai á luta
- O Céu de Sacadura
- ''A Vida em Vénus
Opera
- O Corvo Branco
- Educação para a Tristeza
Screenplay
- The Baron