José Luís Peixoto

José Luís Peixoto

José Luís Peixoto (born September 1974, in Galveias, Portalegre, Portugal), is a Portuguese writer who has written fiction, poetry, drama, lyrics and has participated in a wide number of projects involving writing.

Biographical note

Jose Luis Peixoto was born in a small village from the south interior of Portugal, in the Portuguese region of Alentejo.

He has a degree in Modern English and German Literature in the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Before devoting himself to writing professionally, he taught for a year in Praia, Cabo Verde and in several cities in Portugal.

He has published poetry and fiction and received the Prize Jovens Criadores (Young Creators) in the years of 1997, 1998 and 2000.

In 2001, his novel "Nenhum Olhar" (Blank Gaze) received the Jose Saramago Literary Award. Jose Luis Peixoto is represented in a great number Portuguese and international anthologies and he has collaborated in a lot of international literary magazines.

In 2003, in a totally unprecedented project, Peixoto joined forces with the Gothic metal band Moonspell and together they produced a book and record, "The Antidote".

In 2005, he wrote the theatre plays "Anathema" (premiered in Theatre de la Bastille in Paris) and "À Manhã" (premiered in Teatro São Luiz, Lisbon.

His works have been published in France, Italy, Bulgaria, Turkey, Finland, Holland, Spain (Spanish and Catalan), Czech Republic, Croatia, Belarus and Brazil, among many others. Currently there are being prepared editions of his novels in United States, United Kingdom, Hungary and Japan.

His first novel in English translation ("Blank Gaze") was published in the UK in November 2007 by Bloomsbury and it will come out in 2008 in the US (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday), under the title "The Implacable Order of Things".

Jose Luis Peixoto is the Portugal's most acclaimed, prize-winning young novelist.

Published works

Fiction

* 2000 - "Morreste-me" (fiction, narrative)
* 2000 - "Nenhum Olhar" (novel)
* 2002 - "Uma Casa na Escuridão" (novel)
* 2003 - "Antidoto" (fiction, narrative)
* 2006 - "Cemitério de Pianos" (novel)
* 2008 - "Cal" (fiction, narrative)

Poetry

* 2001 - "A Criança em Ruínas"
* 2002 - "A Casa, a Escuridão"
* 2008 - "Gaveta de Papéis"

Plays

* 2005 - "Anathema"
* 2005 - "À Manhã"
* 2007 - "Quando o Inverno Chegar"

Columns

* Writes a regular column in the Portuguese cultural newspaper Jornal de Letras and in the portuguese weekly magazine Visão.

Lyrics

* Has written lyrics for Da Weasel, Mísia, [http://www.anaifa.com/ A Naifa] , [http://www.joanaamendoeira.com/ Joana Amendoeira] and Quinta do Bill, among several others.

Literary Prizes

* Prémio Jovens Criadores, Instituto Português da Juventude in 1997, 1998 and 2000
* Prémio José Saramago, from "Fundação Círculo de Leitores", 2001.
* Prémio de Poesia Daniel Faria, 2008
* Prémio Cálamo Outra Mirada, 2008

Translated Works

*Morreste-me:
*ItalyQuesta Terra ora Crudele, trad. Giulia Lanciani, La Nuova Frontiera, 2005
*SpainTe me moriste, trad. Antonio Saez Delgado, E.R.E., 2004
*CataloniaTem morrires, trad. Antoni Xumet Rosselo, El Gall, 2006
*CroatiaUmro si me, trad. Dean Trdak, 2004
*FranceLa Mort du Pére, trad. Marie Claire Vromans, I.C.B., 2002

*Nenhum Olhar:
*UK - Blank Gaze, trad. Richard Zenith, 2007
*USA - The Implacable Order of Things, trad. Richard Zenith, 2008
*France - Sans un Regard, trad. François Rosso, Grasset, 2003
*NederlandsDe Blik, trad. Piet Janssen, Meulenhoff, 2003
*FinlandTyhja Taivas, trad. Tarja Harkonen, Wsoy, 2005
*ItalyNessuno Sguardo, trad. Silvia Cavalieri, La Nuova Frontiera, 2002
*SpainNadie nos Mira, trad. Bego Montorio, Hiru, 2001
*Czech RepublicNikdo se Nedív·, trad. Desislava Dimitrovova, Barrister, 2004
*CroatiaNijedan Pogled, trad. Tanja Tarbuk, V.B.Z., 2004
*TurkeyTek Bir Bakis Yeter, trad. Senem Sen, Arkadas, 2005
*Belarus – ********, 2006
*Bulgaria –********, Pet Plus, 2006
*BrazilNenhum Olhar, Agir/Ediouro, 2005
*Hungary - Egyetlen pillantás nélkül, trad Bense Monica, Europa, 2007
*(Rights sold to Greece, Poland)

*Uma Casa na Escuridão:
*FranceUne Maison dans les Ténèbres, trad. François Rosso, Grasset, 2006
*ItalyUna Casa nel Buio, trad. Vicenzo Russo, La Nuova Frontiera, 2004
*(Rights sold to UK, Spain)

*Cemitério de Pianos:
*Spain - Cementerio de Pianos, trad. Carlos Acevedo, El Aleph, 2007
*France - Le Cimetière de Pianos, trad. François Rosso, Grasset, 2008
*(Rights sold to Italy, Brazil, Nederlands, Israel, Greece).

*Antídoto
*Italy - L'Antidoto, Scritturapura, 2008

*A Casa, a Escuridão:
*Bulgária – **********, trad. Sidonia Pojarlieva e Vera Kipovka, 2006

*Criança em Ruínas
*(Rights sold to Spain, Brazil, Poland)

Praise

José Luís Peixoto is one of the most surprising revelations in recent Portuguese literature.” –José Saramago

Brilliantly rendered episodic tales of rural loss...Peixoto's evocation of pathos is tempered by a keen sense of the absurd. His ironic sensibility shines through beautifully in this translation.” –Financial Times

Peixotos bold, incantatory prose is consistently beautifulsimple but also incredibly rich and resonant. ….The external narrators own wise words are picked up and repeated by the characters, as though these portentous lines, these profound thoughts are out therelike great discovered truths. That even these weighty lines are moving and thought-provoking, rather than pretentious, is further testament to the authors considerable skills.” - The Independent (UK)

“ [The Implacable Order of Things] poses difficult questions and challenges the readerbut the patient reader finds great rewards.” – The Australian

You read and breathe as if you were downing a bottle of life in one gulp.” – Le Figaro

“‘Peixoto comes from the world of poetry and of the theatre. And this can be sensed here. His pages, purified in the lyrical prose that makes them unique, introduce us to a rural space burned by the sun, inhabited by the singing of the cicadas and suspended in a mythical time where each action has a biblical inevitability.” – Vogue Italia

The José Luís Peixoto Literary Award

The Municipality of Ponte de Sor, in Portugal, has created a literary award for authors (under 25) with Jose Luis Peixoto's name.

References

*"Jornal de Letras, Artes e Ideias", #945, December 20 - January 2, 2007 - Portugal.

External links

* [http://www.joseluispeixoto.net Official site]
* [http://www.joseluispeixoto.net/bio_en.htm Bio in english]
* [http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/074758947X Blank Gaze at Amazon.com]
* [http://www.bloomsbury.com/authors/microsite.asp?id=1370&section=1 Peixoto at Bloomsbury]
*pt icon [http://nescritas.nletras.com/poemasjoseluispeixoto Biography information and excerpts from all his works]
* [http://www.randomhouse.com/nanatalese/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385524469 Implacable Order of Things at Nan A. Talese]
* [http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/blank-gaze-by-jos-luiacutes-peixoto-trans-richard-zenith-760014.html Review in The Independent - UK]


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