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Paulo da Costa

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Born in Angola, and raised in Portugal, paulo da costa is a writer, editor and translator living in Canada. He is thrice the recipient of the James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction (2024, 2023 and 2020), the 2024 Outstanding Calgary Artist Award, as well as the 2003 Commonwealth First Book Prize for the Canada-Caribbean Region, the W. O. Mitchell City of Calgary Book Prize and the Canongate Prize for short-fiction. His poetry, fiction and non-fiction have been published widely in literary magazines around the world and translated into Italian, Spanish, Serbian, Slovenian and Portuguese.

Trust the Bluer Skies: Meditations of Fatherhood, a book of creative non-fiction, was published in 2024 with University of Regina Press.

Ana Paula Tavares – 4 Poems in Translation

TERRACOTTA Ana Paula Tavares translated by paulo da costa published in World Literature Today 2009 Open the earth let me see myself in the mirror and find my place in emptiness among three hundred thousand terracotta virgins Open the earth, my friend this land woven of a thousand sand colours drifting from the north seeds of time where the older ones rest leaving to the feet the dance of hurrying

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“I value margins, for on the margins one finds room to grow.”
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“I value margins, for on the margins one finds room to grow.”
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“The silence surrounding words highlights their importance, assures us that the word was weighed, polished, contemplated, and deserves the light of day. Words without such reins are excessively dumped in the sea of everyday life, such as one purges interior contaminants—dumped far away from us into an atmosphere that we unconsciously pollute and which we all share. Such words exorcise our private dementia but ironically saturate the art until it risks drowning in a bog of mushy cacophony.”
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