Paulo da Costa

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, Paperback : 97809960511322015, 208 pages, April 2015 Trust the Bluer Skies : Meditations on Fatherhood, University of Regina Press, Paperback : 9780889779921, 256 pages, March 2024

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

2024 Outstanding Calgary Artist Award 2024 James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction 2023 James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction 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 (Scotland) 1999 CBC Alberta Anthology – Short Story

Portuguese

2023 Prémio Alberto Bastos – Poesia (Poetry Prize – Portuguese) 2003 ProVerbo . Prémio – Poesia (Poetry Prize – Portuguese) 2003 ProVerbo . Prémio – Conto (Short-Story Prize – Portuguese)