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A. M. Pires Cabral

A. M. Pires Cabral
A. M. Pires Cabral
– ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Poet, dramaturge, novelist, essayist and translator, A.M. Pires Cabral graduated in Germanic Philology and Pedagogical Sciences from Coimbra University. He spent many years involved in education as a teacher, teacher-trainer and the head of a school. He has been cultural advisor to the Vila Real Town Hall in Trás-os-Montes, since 1978.
Author of a vast number of works, A.M. Pires Cabral has received the “Círculo de Leitores” Fiction Prize; and the D. Dinis Poetry Prize, awarded by the Casa de Mateus Foundation.
Seen primarily as a poet, one of the most serene poets in the use of literary tradition, faithful to a classical background whilst including aspects of a conscious modernity, Pires Cabral has also written articles on civic action, ethnography, local history and customs. He is currently collecting examples and researching into popular language for a major study.
Over the last two decades, fiction has become increasingly important in his work; and he has produced various novels and short story collections most of them taking place in rural settings.
O Cónego [The Canon], his fifth novel, is a detective story set against a religious rural background. Critically acclaimed, the novel is the story of “a priest who tells another priest, who then tells the readers, the story of yet another priest: father, gambler, hunter, remarkable or rogue or both, but certainly a man.”
Soon after its publication in Portugal, the rights to the novel were acquired by the Italian publisher, La Nuova Frontiera, where it will appear in early 2009.

– BIBLIOGRAPHY 

 FICTION  POETRY Theatre    CHILDREN’S BOOKS

  • Sancirilo (novel), 1983; 2nd ed. (revised), 1996

  • O diabo veio ao enterro (short stories), 1985; 2nd ed. (revised), 1993

  • Memórias da caça (short stories), 1987

  • O homem que vendeu a cabeça (short stories), 1987

  • Os arredores do paraíso. Crónicas de Grijó (articles), 1991

  • Crónica da casa ardida (novel), 1992

  • O diário de C* (novella), 1995

  • Raquel e o guerreiro (novel), 1995

  • Na província neva: crónicas de Natal (articles), 1997

  • Três histórias transmontanas (short stories), 1998

  • A loba e o rouxinol (novel), 2004

  • O cónego (novel), 2007

o cónego 

See excerpt from: o cónego [The Canon]translated from the portuguese by Mick Greek 

 

  • Algures a nordeste, 1974

  • Solo arável, 1976

  • Trirreme, 1978

  • Nove pretextos tomados de Camões, 1980

  • Boleto em Constantim, 1981

  • Os cavalos da noite, 1982

  • Sabei por onde a luz, 1983

  • Artes marginais, 1998

  • Desta água beberei, 1999

  • O livro dos lugares e outros poemas, 2000

  • Como se Bosch tivesse enlouquecido, 2003

  • Douro: pizzicato e chula, 2005

  • Que comboio é este, 2005

  • Antes que o rio seque (collected poetry), 2006

  • As têmporas da cinza, 2008
  • Three plays in one act (O consultório; O poço and Seguir viagem), 1977
  • Crispim, o grilo mágico, 1980
  • O saco das nozes, 1982
  • Trocas e baldrocas ou com a natureza não se brinca, 2007
– TRANSLATIONS

GERMAN

  • Irgendwo im Nordosten/Algures a Nordeste – poems, bilingual edition in Portuguese and German. Bremen: Edition Con, 1983

FRENCH

  • Portugal terra fria – novella, bilingual edition in Portuguese and French. Paris: Marval, 1997

HUNGARIAN

  • A Madárember – Mai Portugál Elbeszél˝ok (2000) included an excerpt from his novel Raquel e o guerreiro

 

 – LITERARY PRI ZES
  • D. Dinis Poetry Prize – Casa de Mateus Foundation, 2005
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  • Círculo de Leitores Fiction Prize, 1983