Paulo da Costa (writer)
paulo da costa, born in Angola and raised in Portugal, is a bilingual Canadian-Portuguese author, editor and translator living in Canada.Works
Fiction
- Scent of a Lie - 2002 - Caribbean & Canada Commonwealth Writers Prize Best First Book 2003, 2002 W.O. Mitchell City of Calgary Book Prize, 2001 Cannongate Prize - Scotland.
- O Perfume da Mentira - Livros Pé d'Orelha, 2012
- The Green and Purple Skin of The World - Freehand Books, 2013
- The Midwife of Torment & Other Stories, 55 sudden fictions – Guernica Editions, 2017
Non-Fiction
- Beyond Bullfights and Ice Hockey, Essays on Identity, Language and Writing Culture, Boavista Press, 2015
Poetry
- Notas-de-rodapé - Portuguese poems – Livros Pé d'Orelha, 2005
Literary translation
- The Cartography of Being – Translated poems of Nuno Júdice 1970-2005 LPO 2012
Audio chapbooks
- Notas-de-rodapé - Portuguese poems – Livros Pé d'Orelha 2005
- Midwife of Torment & Other Stories - Livros Pé d'Orelha 2005
- Twenty Poems – English Poems - Livros Pé d'Orelha – 2006
- XX poemas - Portuguese poems - Livros Pé d'Orelha - 2006
- The Book of Catalogues – Livros Pé d'Orelha - 2010
Awards
- 2020 James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction
- 2003 Caribbean & Canada Region Commonwealth Writers Prize – First Book
- 2002 W.O. Mitchell City of Calgary Book Prize
- 2001 Canongate Short-Fiction Prize
- 1999 CBC Alberta Anthology – Short Story
Portuguese
- 2003 ProVerbo. Prémio – Poesia
- 2003 ProVerbo. Prémio – Conto
