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Nara Vidal
NARA VIDAL was born in Minas Gerais, Brazil in 1974. Her fiction work includes short stories, novels and children's literature. Her first novel Sorte won the Oceanos Award in 2019 and is translated into Dutch and Spanish. She works as editor of Capitolina Revista, for which has been awarded an APCA (Association of Art Critics of São Paulo Award). She is a columnist for the Culture Supplement at Tribuna de Minas and for Jornal Rascunho. Her latest book of short stories, Mapas para Desaparecer, was shortlisted for the Jabuti Awards.  She lives in the UK.

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Carmen

Fiction

January 2022

Nara Vidal

TR. Emyr Humphreys

Fiction

January 2022

— Stay, Carmen! There’ll be cake! We bought it just for you! Stay!   It was twenty past seven in the evening, and Carmen...

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feature

May 2011

On the Relative Values of Humility and Arrogance; or the Confusing Complications of Negative Serendipity

Annabel Howard

feature

May 2011

On a distinctly drizzly Wednesday evening in February a friend of mine looked at me and said: ‘Only those who...

Prize Entry

April 2015

Les Archives du Coeur

Paul McQuade

Prize Entry

April 2015

The bike wheels skit and bounce on the loose dirt path. The smell of hot rubber and the smell...

fiction

April 2013

Popular Mechanics

Gareth Dickson

fiction

April 2013

In simple terms, the process of combustion creates energy that is converted into motion. The ignition by the spark...

 

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