A Conversation with Award-Winning Portuguese Author

MIT Foreign Languages and Literatures
With the support of Instituto Camões, Portugal
presents:
A Conversation with
Award-Winning Portuguese
Author, José Luís Peixoto
José Luis Peixoto is one of Portugal’s most acclaimed and bestselling
young novelists. He was born in 1974 in Galveias, in the southern
region of the Alentejo (Portugal). He studied Modern Languages
and Literatures at Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Since 2000, Peixoto
has published ten works (novels, short-story and poetry collections).
He is a three-time winner of the Young Creators Prize. His rst novel
“Nenhum Olhar” (published as “Blank Gaze” in the UK by Bloomsbury
and as “ e Implacable Order of ings” in the USA by Doubleday/
Anchor/Random House) was shortlisted in all major literary awards in
Portugal and won the José Saramago Literary Award. e prestigious
Saramago award is delivered every two years for the best novel wri en
in all Portuguese-speaking countries. “ e Implacable Order of ings”
was selected by Financial Times as one of their best books of 2007. In
the US, it was part of the “Discover Great New Writers” selection by
Barnes & Noble. In Portugal, it was selected by the newspaper Expresso
as one of the best books of the decade. In 2003, Peixoto wrote the shortstory collection “Antidote” in a joint project with the heavy metal band
Moonspell, which a racted new readers from all around the world. In
2006, his novel ‘ e Piano Cemetery” won the Calamo Award for the
best translated novel published in Spain. A year later, Peixoto received
the Daniel Faria Poetry Award. Peixoto’s work has appeared in a great
number of anthologies and has been translated into 20 languages.
Light dinner will be served.
November 3, 2011
5.30PM
14E-304