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Patrícia Portela

PATRÍCIA PORTELA is a writer and performance maker, living between Belgium and Portugal. She studied set and costume design in Lisbon, scenography in Utrecht, The Netherlands, film in Ebeltoft, Denmark and Helsinki, Finland, and Philosophy in Leuven, Belgium. She won the Revelation Prize in 1994 for her creative work in performance and cinema, the Prize Teatro na Década for T5 in 1999, the Gulbenkian Foundation Prize Madalena de Azeredo Perdigão for the performance Flatland I in 2004 and was one of the five finalists of the Sonae Media Art Prize 2015 with her installation Parasomnia, amongst other prizes. She is the author of novels including Banquet (finalist for the APEL Novel Prize 2012), and has been a writer for the prestigious Jornal de Letras since 2017. The story in this issue is taken from her 2017 collection Dias Úteis (Working Days), which contains one story for each day of the week.



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Fiction

Issue No. 25

Patrícia Portela

TR. Rahul Bery

Fiction

Issue No. 25

‘Not my name. I live on the streets of an era in which saying one’s name is a cause for suspicion… The name I...

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poetry

January 2016

Sex-Desert

Galina Rymbu

TR. Joan Brooks

poetry

January 2016

I’m screaming lying alone in this settlement     everything empty only emptiness sex – is a desert  ...

poetry

February 2013

Redacted, Redacted

Les Kay

poetry

February 2013

Here the censorship, which you’ve taught yourself, is self-inflicted (low sugar, low fat); it begins with the swinging shadow...

feature

Issue No. 9

Leaving Theories Behind

Enrique Vila-Matas

feature

Issue No. 9

I. I went to Lyon because an organisation called Villa Fondebrider invited me to give a talk on the relationship...

 

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