International Literary Program

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PROGRAM & GUIDE
International
Literary Program
LISBON
JULY 1  JULY 14
 2012
Dear 2012 ILP Participants & Faculty,
The second DISQUIET International Literary Program (ILP) begins July
1. Our sponsors and partners in Lisbon have helped us put together a
unique and eclectic schedule which provides numerous opportunities to
meet with and listen to North American and Portuguese writers as well
as to experience Lisboa, its local name, and its environs. And Lisboa is
singular among inimitable European cities, boasting a rich literary and
cultural history; a thriving young artistic scene; the historic grandeur of
the castles in Sintra; the quaint, labyrinthine, centuries-old cobblestone
streets of Alfama and its hidden Fado clubs; the party district of Bairro
Alto; and the idyllic beaches of Cascais... We hope that it will be an
enriching, productive, and life-changing experience.
This Program Guide includes comprehensive information about the
program and a detailed schedule. We’ve also included some brief
information below about Lisboa, which may be helpful to you, but a
much more detailed guidebook such as Lonely Planet is recommended.
In the About the Program and Maps & Directions sections, please pay
particular attention to the instructions on getting from the airport to
your lodging and the location of the Centro Nacional de Cultura (CNC),
our home base. Lisbon is a very easy city to get around in by public
transport or taxi, and we’ve tried to make directions to all our events as
clear as possible. We will meet 45 mins before every event at the CNC,
the location of our orientation, to go together as a group, or you can
make your way there on your own.
In the meantime, should you have any questions, don’t hesitate to
contact us at [email protected].
Kind regards, até breve!
Scott Laughlin, ILP ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
Jeff Parker, ILP DIRECTOR
Teresa Tamen, CNC GENERAL-DIRECTOR FOR ACTIVITIES
ILP GUIDE
I. About Lisbon
 GEOGRAPHICAL SITUATION Lisboa is the capital of Portugal and lies on the north bank of the Tagus (Tejo)
Estuary, on the European Atlantic coast. It is the westernmost city in continental
Europe. Greater Lisboa has an area of approximately 621 sq. miles. The city lies
more or less in the centre of the country, approximately 186 miles from the Algarve
in the south and 248 miles from the northern border with Spain. Lisboa offers
a wide variety of options to the visitor, including beaches, countryside, mountains
and areas of historical interest only a few miles away from the city centre.  LANGUAGE Portuguese is Latin in origin and the third most widely spoken European language
in the world. It is the mother tongue of more than 200 million people. Portuguese
is the official language in several countries: Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau,
Mozambique, São Tomé e Príncipe in Africa, and Brazil in South America.
In Portugal itself a considerable number of people can understand
and communicate in foreign languages.  DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION Approximately 600,000 people live in Lisboa. However, if one includes
the various satellite towns, the population of Greater Lisboa rises
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LISBON, JULY 1  JULY 14  2012 PROGRAM & GUIDE
 RELIGION
Portuguese culture is greatly influenced by religion. Although Catholicism
predominates, other religions may be freely practiced.  ELECTRICITY
Voltage: 220/380 volts at a frequency of 50 Hertz. All sockets follow European
standards. To use American-type plugs, a 220-volt transformer should
be used together with an adapter plug.  CURRENCY
The unit of currency in Portugal is the Euro €. Please consult www.xe.com
for up-to-date exchange rates. ATMs are widely available and take American
and Canadian bank cards. It’s necessary to have a four-digit pin number
for your ATM card in order to use ATMs in Europe. Money exchanges abound
as well, and US dollars may be easily exchanged into Euros.
 TELECOMMUNICATIONS
In terms of telecommunications, Lisboa offers state-of-the-art technology. Portugal
Telecom, the Portuguese telecommunications group, operates with a wide range
of technological networks for telephone services, data communications,
international and satellite connections, mobile communications and cable TV,
thus ensuring ease of contact with the rest of the world. Wireless Internet points
are widely available at cafes and shops around the city of Lisbon and in almost any
hotel or hostel. The Portuguese country code is + 351. (Cell phone numbers start
with 96, 91 or 93. The Lisbon area code is 21.)
 PLANNING YOUR DAYS
While the ILP schedule is jam-packed, with events throughout the day each day
of the program, you may want to keep in mind the following daily Working Hours
schedule info for the city of Lisboa. Generally speaking, restaurants are open
for lunch from 12 mid-day to 3.p.m and for dinner from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Cinema
showings begin at around lunchtime, and at some cinemas there are sessions
until 2a.m. Theatres and other shows usually start between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m.  WORKING HOURS
Buses Every day  24 hours.
Underground Every day 6.30 a.m.  1 a.m.
Banks Mon-Fri. 8.30 a.m.  3 p.m.
Shopping Centres Every day 10 a.m.  12 midnight
INTERNATIONAL LITERARY PROGRAM
Shops Mon-Fri 9 a.m.  1 p.m. and 3 p.m.  7 p.m. Sat. 9 a.m.  7 p.m.
Embassies Mon- Fri 9 a.m.  3 p.m.
Post Offices Mon- Fri 8.30 a.m.  6.30 p.m.
Pharmacies Mon-Fri 9 a.m.  1 p.m. and 3 p.m.  7 p. m.
also 24 hour (night) service
Meal times Lunch 12 mid-day  2 p.m. Dinner 8 p.m.  10 p.m
 TRANSPORTATION
Metropolitano de Lisboa is the fastest and most efficient method of travel in Lisbon.
It assumes high standards of safety, speed, regularity and comfort. The present
network consists of 4 independent lines with 23 miles of track, 44 stations
(4 of which are interface-stations between the lines) and 12 intermodal interfaces
with other transport operators, and it carries around 185 million passengers per
year. The ML is known as the city’s “most viewed museum” because of the aesthetic
character of the stations. Tickets for the ML can be purchased from machines
or attendants at each station.
Carris operates above ground transport in Lisbon including an extensive network
of 840 buses, 59 trams, and lifts assisting in navigating the city’s steep inclines.
The city may be said to have veritable landmarks of public transport including
Carris’ Bus 101, Tram 5, and Elevador de Santa, Glory, and Lavra Bica Lifts.
Tickets can be purchased inside the vehicle, from the driver, or at many points
of sale throughout the city. There are several types of pre-purchased tickets
we’ll explain to you at the orientation.
Taxis – Besides Metro and Bus, Taxis are a good way of getting around.
Lisbon taxis are cheap. All new vehicles are caramel-colored. The vehicles carry
a white lozenge-shape on the door bearing the word ‘TÁXI’, beneath which is
the word ‘LISBOA’. Older taxis also bear this identifier, but are painted black with
a turquoise/green roof, and a number of taxis in this livery are still operating.
Taxi fares are calculated on the basis of an initial flat charge, currently 2€.
If luggage is carried, a further 1.6€ is charged. From the airport to most locations
in central Lisbon should not cost more than 11€ plus any baggage and call-out
charges. Meters are displayed in all licensed taxis, so the fare should not come
as a shock. And do make sure that the driver puts on the meter when you enter
a taxi. From 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. there is a surcharge of about 20%.
Tips are voluntary; 10% is the norm.
To call a taxi by telephone (+351) 21 793 27 56 or (+351) 21 815 50 61
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TIME ZONES & MEASURES
Lisboa is five hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time in the US
(GMT/UTC GMT/UTC +1 in Summer). All measures are metric.
CLIMATE
Due to the influence of the Atlantic Ocean, Lisboa has a pleasant climate
throughout the year. The agreeable temperatures in the summer months are
an open invitation for a walk by the river, or to spend an afternoon in one of the
many street cafés to be found all over the city. Although the temperatures may fall
somewhat in the autumn and winter months, sunshine is almost always a constant
feature. Below are the average temperatures:
JAN/MAR
APR/JUN
JUL/SEPT
OCT/DEC
Air
ºC
17.1
21.8
26.3
17.2
Temperature
ºF
62.8
71.2
79.3
53.0
Sea
ºC
14.9
17.5
19.5
16.1
Temperature
ºF
58.8
63.5
67.1
60.0
II. About The Program
 Arriving at the Airport
Transportation from the Lisbon airport is very easy: by taxi approximately 12€
to the city centre; by bus (Aerobus)-3,50€ from 7 am to 11 pm (Aerobus stops at
Entrecampos, Campo Pequeno/Avenida da República, Saldanha, Picoas, Avenida
Fontes Pereira de Melo, Marquês de Pombal, Avenida da Liberdade, Restauradores,
Rossio, Praça do Comércio, Cais do Sodré). Detailed info on riding the Aerobus
may be found here: http://www.golisbon.com/transport/airport-shuttle.html.
Here is a short video showing the Aerobus ride from the Lisbon airport to the
Living Lounge Hostel, where some of you are staying: http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=LTrzQatV7H8. If you would like to request that someone from the ILP meet
you at the airport, this can be arranged. Alternatively, many of you are on flights
with other participants. Contact us, and we can put you in touch with others
arriving at the same time.
 Lodging
If you have made your own reservations for accommodations, please be
in touch with your hotel about check-in dates and times. If the ILP has made
your reservation, we will be in touch with you about specific check-in instructions.
In general, you should give your name and state that you are with the Centro
Nacional de Cultura / DISQUIET writers group. You may be required to leave a credit
card for any incidentals, but the room fee will be billed to the ILP, and your payment
will be made to us directly in advance.
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 Orientation
Our first events will take place on Sunday July 1 (consult the Program
Schedule for more details). At 2.30 pm there will be a brief walking tour starting
from the Café No Chiado right below the CNC and at 6pm a short orientation
followed by wine and snacks also at the CNC.
 Contact Information
Should you encounter problems at any time, you may contact Dzanc
or the CNC or the authorities using the phone numbers below.
(Any inquiries prior to departure, please contact us by email at
[email protected] or (734) 756-5701.)
CENTRO NACIONAL DE CULTURA
General (weekdays from 10 am to 7 pm)
Telephone +351 21 346 67 22
Teresa Tamen, CNC General Director for Activities
Telephone +351 96 761 03 25 | [email protected]
Dzanc Books
Jeff Parker, ILP Director
Cellphone in Lisbon +351 96 667 89 45 – [email protected]
Scott Laughlin, ILP Associate Director
Cellphone in Lisbon: +351 96 667 83 23 | [email protected]
Oona Patrick, ILP Luso-American Liasion
Tanya Shavlyuk, ILP Program Associate
Laura Breitenbeck, ILP Program Coordinator
Alina Ryabovolova, ILP Program Assistant
Dzanc Books main US office in Michigan: (734) 756-5701
Portugal National Emergency Number
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Tourism
Turismo de Lisboa - Visitors & Convention Bureau Rua do Arsenal, 15. Telephone 210 312 700 INTERNATIONAL LITERARY PROGRAM
PSP - Tourism Police
Palácio Foz - Praça dos Restauradores
Telephone +351 213 421 634 | +351 213 421 623 | [email protected]
 WORKSHOPS
All MWF Workshops (Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Writing the Luso Experience)
run concurrently from 10am-12:30pm, and all meet at the CNC. Other workshops
(The Walk, The Fernando Pessoa Game, and Travel Writing) take place at irregular
dates and times and also run concurrently. Further info on workshop scheduling
and all other events can be found in the Program Schedule.
DISQUIET is pleased to offer, as part of its 2012 program, the following unique
workshops designed to take advantage of the cultural and literary character
of Lisbon as well as the notions of travel, engagement, and exploration central
to its philosophy.
The Walk with Christine Hume
In this multi-genre workshop we will explore the walk as a literary/artistic form.
As we write work inspired by your walks in and around Lisbon, we will consider
strategies of the flaneur, the walking tour, and the derive; we will re-narrate our
routes according to the politics, histories, lyricisms, and personal digressions of
the sidewalk. Taking our cues from fine arts walks by Janet Cardiff, Francis Alys,
Richard Long, and Janine Antoni/Paul Ramirez-Jonas, as well as literary walks
from W.G. Sebald, Lisa Robertson, Anne Carson, Robert Smithson, and Fernando
Pessoa, this class asks you to rethink writing as a physical practice, responsive
to place and soma.
The Fernando Pessoa Game with Terri Witek
Writers and other creative practitioners are invited to reply to the work of Lisbon’s
most famous writer during two weeks in his amazing city. A multi-genre workshop
of proliferating prompts, the workshop will cross-pollinate the Book of Disquiet
with contemporary work. Collaborations or solo writers and artists are welcome.
All Writing is Travel Writing with Philip Graham
Travel writing serves to take us to distant landscapes, but the best travel writing
also seeks to alter a reader’s own internal landscape, offering views that change
the way we see the world, and see ourselves. In this sense, all writing is potentially
travel writing, taking us to a place we’ve never been to so that, on return, even
if only in a small way, we return changed. This travel-writing workshop will
encourage writing that travels.
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 About Centro Nacional de Cultura
Centro Nacional de Cultura (CNC) was founded in 1945 as an “intellectuals’ club”
in which to exchange ideas. It was the brainchild of a group of monarchists who
wished to defend a free culture. Throughout the 50s and 60s it developed to become
a democratic forum, and by the late seventies, after the 25 April 1974 revolution,
it began a new phase under the team leadership of Helena Vaz da Silva. It now
included a range of activities addressed to a broad spectrum of the public – Sunday
Walks, travel, training courses, international meetings and seminars, exhibitions,
publications, literary and artistic competitions, prizes and grants, children’s
activities, providing cultural services for schools, corporations and foreign
groups visiting Portugal. Currently CNC’s main objectives are to promote, defend,
disseminate and register Portuguese cultural heritage, promote “cultural tourism”
based on an integrated idea of tourism, environment, heritage and cultural
itineraries, and to educate the younger generations about global citizenship.
Its action can be summarized as a policy of “establishing contacts,” “articulating,”
and “making things happen.” A branch was opened in 2006 in the city of Oporto.
For more information see: http://www.cnc.pt/
 About Dzanc Books
Dzanc Books was created in 2006 to advance great writing and champion those
writers who don’t fit neatly into the marketing niches of for-profit presses and
to advance literary readership and advocacy across the country. As a non-profit
501(c)3 organization, Dzanc publishes innovative and award-winning literary
fiction, supports several editorially-independent imprints and literary journals,
publishes The Collagist, a monthly online literary journal launched in August 2009,
recognizes the best stories, poems, and non-fiction published online through
the Best of the Web anthology series, provides low-cost writing instruction
to beginning and emerging writers by connecting them with accomplished
authors through the innovative Dzanc Creative Writing Sessions, runs the Dzanc
Writers-in-Residence Program, which places published authors in public schools
to teach creative writing to elementary and secondary students, and conducts
the yearly Dzanc Prize, which recognizes a single writer for both literary excellence
and community service, as well as an annual short story collection competition.
For more information see: http://www.dzancbooks.org/
 About Alberto de Lacerda
The DISQUIET ILP is dedicated to the memory of Portuguese poet Alberto
de Lacerda and includes a special tribute to him. We consider two of his most
deeply held values to be important aspirations for the character of the ILP itself.
Alberto lived in Mozambique, London, Austin, and Boston. With friends all over
the world, he was a poet who spanned continents and cultures that served as the
inspiration for his life and work. Alberto also had a unique vision of artistic merit.
For him, good work was good work whether it was written in someone’s sprawling
hand or printed in a leather-bound book. He believed art should be judged on its
own terms, not upon the value the culture assigned to it. Whether someone had
published a lot or not at all was of no real concern to him. Of course, Alberto didn’t
disparage publishing, but he did believe that concentrating solely upon publishing
as a measure of worth, either of an individual or of his work, was dangerous.
Alberto de Lacerda (1928-2007) was born in the island of Mozambique and died
in London. He lived, in his own words, “for friendship and the things of the spirit.”
This ethos is reflected in his estate – a vast collection of books, records,
photos, manuscripts, letters, and works of art – which was brought to Portugal
in its entirety and deposited for treatment and processing at the Mário Soares
Foundation in Lisbon.
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III. Program Schedule
 open-to-the-public session
⁄ ⁄ parallel sessions
Metro station
 GETTING THERE
All events indicate the meeting point for the event AND transport to the event if
you wish to travel there on your own. Following the program schedule, there are
detailed maps and directions from the Centro Nacional de Cultura (CNC) for each
location. In addition, an assistant will meet participants at the CNC approximately
45 minutes before each event to travel there together by taxi, foot, or transport.
JULY 1, Sunday
Participants Arrival
2.30 pm Informal city tour led by CNC and Dzanc Books staff (departure from
Centro Nacional de Cultura – see the Maps & Directions sections for instructions
to get you to the CNC from the program hotels/hostels)
6.00 pm Program Orientation Light refreshments will be served
Centro Nacional de Cultura
Largo do Picadeiro, 10 (door next to the street café “Café No Chiado”)
Baixa-Chiado
JULY 2, Monday
10.00 am | 12.30 pm WORKSHOPS with KIM ADDONIZIO, FRANK GASPAR,
JOSIP NOVAKOVICH, ROBERT OLMSTEAD, and DEB OLIN UNFERTH
Centro Nacional de Cultura, Rua António Maria Cardoso, 68
Baixa-Chiado
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 2.30 pm | 4.00 pm Reading & Performance with JOSÉ LUÍS PEIXOTO
and KIM ADDONIZIO
Meeting at Largo do São Carlos, close to the opera theatre arcades.
Teatro São Luiz, Jardim de Inverno / (Winter Garden), Rua António Maria Cardoso 58
Baixa-Chiado
José Luís Peixoto is one of Portugal’s most acclaimed and bestselling young novelists.
He was born in 1974 in Galveias, in the region of Alentejo (Portugal). Has studied
Modern languages and literatures in Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Since 2000, Peixoto
has published ten titles (4 novels, 3 fiction books and 3 poetry collections). He is
three-times a winner of the Jovens Criadores Prize. His first novel “Nenhum Olhar”
(published as “Blank Gaze” in the UK by Bloomsbury and as “The Implacable Order of
Things” in the USA by Doubleday/Anchor/Random House) was shortlisted for all major
literary awards in Portugal and won the Jose Saramago Award, delivered every two
years for the best novel written in all Portuguese-speaking countries. ‘Nenhum Olhar’
(‘Blank Gaze’) was selected by the Financial Times as one of their best books of 2007. In
the USA, it was a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers selection. In Portugal,
it was selected by Expresso as one of their best books of the decade. Peixoto’s first
fiction, ‘Morreste-me’ (published in the UK as ‘You died on me’, Warwick Review, 2010)
was selected by Visão as one of their best books of the decade. In 2003, he wrote the
short-story collection ‘Antidote’ in a joint project with the heavy metal band Moonspell.
In 2007, his novel ‘Cemitério de Pianos’ (published as ‘The Piano Cemetery’ in the
UK) won the Calamo Award for the best translated novel published in Spain. In 2008,
he received the Daniel Faria Poetry Award. Peixoto’s poetry and short-stories have
appeared in a great number of anthologies in dozens of languages.
Kim Addonizio is the author of five collections of poetry including Tell Me, a 2000
National Book Award Finalist. Her work has received a Guggenheim Fellowship,
two NEA Fellowships, the John Ciardi Lifetime Achievement Award, and other honors.
Addonizio’s other books include two novels, Little Beauties and My Dreams Out in the
Street; and a book of stories, In the Box Called Pleasure. With Cheryl Dumesnil, she
co-edited Dorothy Parker’s Elbow: Tattoos on Writers, Writers on Tattoos.
6.30 pm Welcome Reception at the Official Residence
of the United States Embassy Deputy Chief of Mission Lucy Tamlyn
Avenida da Torre de Belém, 11
All DISQUIET participants regardless of citizenship MUST bring passports
for entry to the residence
Dress code: Business casual
JULY 3, Tuesday
10.00 am | 12.30 pm WORKSHOPS The Walk with CHRISTINE HUME
and The Fernando Pessoa Game with TERRI WITEK
Baixa-Chiado
 4.00 pm | 5.30 pm Roundtable: Foreign Travel Writing on Lisbon with
Isabel Oliveira Martins, JoÃo Paulo Ascenso Pereira da Silva, Miguel
Alarcão, Maria do Rosário Lupi Bello, Maria Zulmira Castanheira
CETAPS (Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies)
Tower B, Auditorium 2, 3rd floor, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Avenida de Berna, 26-C
Campo Pequeno
João Paulo Ascenso Pereira da Silva is Assistant Professor at the New University
of Lisbon (UNL), and former head of the Lisbon Branch of CETAPS (Centre
for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies). He has published widely
on historical Anglo-Portuguese literary and cultural relations as well as 18th,
19th and 20th-century travel writing on Portugal.
Isabel Oliveira Martins, a member of CETAPS and ULICES (University of Lisbon
Centre for English Studies), is an Assistant Professor at UNL. She holds a PhD
in Contemporary American literature. Her most recent publications include a study
of the reception of Mark Twain’s works in Portugal.
Maria do Rosário Lupi Bello is an Assistant Professor at Universidade Aberta
in Lisbon. Since earning her PhD in Theory of Literature she has developed
her research on the narrative relationship between Literature and Film.
Maria Zulmira Castanheira is Assistant Professor at Universidade Nova de Lisboa,
whose research concentrates on 18th and 19th century Anglo-Portuguese historical,
literary and cultural relations. She has written on British travel writing on Portugal
and on the reception of British culture in the periodical press of Portuguese
Romanticism, and she is particularly interested in cultural representations of national
identity and the construction of mental images of the Other and of the Self.
Miguel Alarcão has held the post of Associate Professor at the New Universtiy
of Lisbon’s Faculty of Social and Human Sciences since 2001. He has an MA
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in Anglo-Portuguese Studies and a PhD in English Culture and has written
or co-authored five books and over 40 articles on English, Anglo-Portuguese,
and medieval culture.
 6.30 pm | 8.00 pm Reading with FRANK GASPAR and ROBERT OLMSTEAD
CETAPS (Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies)
Tower B, Auditorium 2, 3rd floor, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Avenida de Berna, 26-C
Campo Pequeno
Frank X. Gaspar was born and raised in Provincetown, Massachusetts, of Azorean
Descent (Pico, Sao Miguel). His ancestors were traditionally whalers and Grand
Banks fisherman, sailing out of the Islands and then Provincetown. He holds
an MFA from the Graduate Writing Program at UC Irvine and is the author of
five collections of poetry and two novels. Among his many awards are multiple
inclusions in Best American Poetry, four Pushcart Prizes, a National Endowment
for the Arts Fellowship in Literature, and a California Arts Council Fellowship
in poetry. His debut novel, Leaving Pico, was a Barnes and Noble Discovery Prize
winner, a recipient of the California Book Award for First Fiction and a New York
Times Notable Book (paperback edition). His second novel Stealing Fatima was a MassBook of the Year in Fiction (Massachusetts Foundation for the Book).
He most recently held the Helio and Amelia Pedroso/Luso-American Foundation
Endowed Chair in Portuguese Studies at the University of Massachusetts,
Dartmouth. His new collection of poems, Late Rapturous, will be published
by Autumn House in July, 2012. He is currently at work on a new novel.
Fiction writer Robert Olmstead is the author of eight books including the
bestseller Coal Black Horse which received the Heartland Prize for Fiction
and the Ohioana Book Award. Far Bright Star, his most recent novel, received
the 2010 Western Writers of America Spur Award for best novel. His work has
appeared in such places as Black Warrior Review, Spin, McSweeney’s, Granta,
Epoch, Ploughshares, Mid-American Review and Sports Afield. He was a contributing
writer for both the Washington Redskins and Carolina Panther’s Game Day Book.
He has earned senior arts awards from Pennsylvania and Ohio, an Apex Award
in Journalism, and an Idaho Press Club Award. He is also the recipient of a
Guggenheim Fellowship and an NEA grant. His reputation is international, with
translations in both Europe and Asia. He is a professor at Ohio Wesleyan University
and the MFA Program at Converse College. He is a graduate of Syracuse University
and teaches widely throughout America and in Europe and Russia.
JULY 4, Wednesday
10.00 am | 12.30 pm WORKSHOPS with ADDONIZIO, GASPAR, NOVAKOVICH,
OLMSTEAD, and UNFERTH
Baixa-Chiado
 2.30 pm | 4.00 pm Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen as seen
by ALEXIS LEVITIN and ALBERTO VAZ DA SILVA
Baixa-Chiado
Alexis Levitin’s translations have appeared in close to three hundred literary
magazines and forty anthologies in the United States over the course of the last
thirty-five years. He has also published thirty-two books of translation, mostly
of Portuguese poetry. His books include Eugenio de Andrade’s Forbidden Words
(New Directions), Guernica and Other Poems by Carlos de Oliveira, News from the
Blockade and Other Poems by Egito Goncalves, and, from Brazil, Cage by Astrid
Cabral, Blood of the Sun by Salgado Maranhao, and Soulstorm, a collection of short
prose pieces by Clarice Lispector (New Directions). Next year Tagus Press will
publish his translation of Sophia’s Exemplary Tales.
He has worked with Sophia’s poetry and published it in various literary magazines
during the last thirty-five years.
Alberto Vaz da Silva b. 1936, a barrister–at–law and a writer, was one of the
founders of the magazine O Tempo e o Modo (1963). He was a regular columnist in
the weekly newspapers Expresso, Semanário and O Independente. A main translator
into Portuguese of the international magazine Concilium, he also translated several
French authors, such as Rimbaud, Verlaine and Marguerite Yourcenar.
Between 1994 and 2000 he worked in Lille with the proeminent French graphologist
Roseline Crepy, whose work and therapeutic method he extensively revealed and
practised in Portugal.
An amateur astronomer, he conceived and organized several related events,
with the aim of spreading interest in the field, especially among young people.
A close friend of Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, AVS traveled with her,
his wife and a couple of other common friends on a long voyage to Sicily in 1990.
This was the main pretext for Evocation of Sophia, a book published in 2009, in which
her life and poetry are recalled. AVS lives and works in Lisbon, and he is a member
of the board of directors of Centro Nacional de Cultura.
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 6.30 pm | 8.00 pm Reading with GEORGE SAUNDERS and DEB OLIN UNFERTH
Universidade de Lisboa, Amphitheater IV
Cidade Universitária
George Saunders is the author of three collections of short stories: the bestselling
Pastoralia, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award,
and In Persuasion Nation, one of three finalists for the 2006 STORY Prize for best
short story collection of the year. Pastoralia and CivilWarLand in Bad Decline were both New York Times Notable Books. Saunders is also the author
of the novella-length illustrated fable, The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil and
the New York Times bestselling children’s book, The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip,
illustrated by Lane Smith, which has also won major children’s literature prizes
in Italy and the Netherlands. His most recent book, The Braindead Megaphone,
is a collection of essays. Raised on the south side of Chicago, Saunders has worked
as a technical writer and geophysical engineer. He has also worked in Sumatra
on an oil exploration geophysics crew, as a doorman in Beverly Hills, a roofer
in Chicago, a convenience store clerk, a guitarist in a country-and-western band
and a knuckle-puller in a West Texas slaughterhouse. His stories have won the
National Magazine Award for Fiction in 1994, 1996, 2000 and 2004 and the World
Fantasy Award. He contributed the weekly column American Psyche to the Saturday
magazine of The Guardian. He is a recipient of the MacArthur Foundation’s
“Genius” Award, and he has appeared on “The Late Show with David Letterman,”
“The Colbert Report” and “The Charlie Rose Show.” His satirical stories
and nonfiction critiques of consumer culture appear regularly in The New
Yorker, GQ and Harper’s Magazine, and have appeared in the O. Henry, Best
American Short Stories, Best Non-Required Reading and Best American Travel
Writing anthologies. In 2001, Saunders was selected by Entertainment Weekly
as one of the 100 top most creative people in entertainment and by The New
Yorker in 2002 as one of the best writers 40 and under. Two of his works are in the
process of becoming films, and his story “CivilWarLand in Bad Decline” is currently
in development with Ben Stiller’s Company Red Hour Productions.
Deb Olin Unferth is the author of the memoir Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and
Went to Join the Sandinistas, a New York Times Critics’ Choice, the story collection Minor
Robberies, and the novel Vacation, winner of the Cabell First Novel Award. Her work has
been published in Harper’s, McSweeney’s, The Believer, the New York Times, the Boston
Review, and elsewhere. She has received two Pushcart Prizes and a Creative Capital
Grant for Innovative Literature. She teaches at Wesleyan University.
8.30 pm Dinner with Onésimo Teotónio Almeida
Private dinner for all Disquiet participants with Onésimo T. Almeida as guest
of honor.
Café No Chiado, Largo do Picadeiro, 10
Baixa-Chiado
Onésimo Teotónio Almeida was born in S. Miguel, Azores, in 1946. He graduated from
the Portuguese Catholic University, Lisbon, in 1972. He received his MA (1977) and
PhD (1980), both in Philosophy, at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, where
he has been teaching Portuguese Cultural and Intellectual History since 1975, and
as a Full Professor since 1991. From 1992 to 2003 he was Chair of the Department
of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies. He also teaches a course on Values and
Worldviews for the Wayland Collegium, a center for interdisciplinary studies.
He doubles as a scholar and as an author, having also written short stories, plays,
and crónicas. He is the author and editor of numerous books. The most recent are
Onésimo. Português sem Filtro, 2011; O Peso do Hífen, Ensaios sobre a experiência
luso-americana, 2010; De Marx a Darwin – A desconfiança das ideologias, 2009 (Prize
Seeds of Science for the Social sciences and Humanities, Ciência Hoje, 2010). His book
of Portuguese-American short stories, Sapa(teia) Americana, first published in 1983,
was rereleased by Salamandra in 2000, and again by Círculo de Leitores in 2002. His
book Mensagem – uma Tentativa de Reinterpretação (Angra do Heroísmo, 1987) won
the Roberto de Mesquita essay prize.
He is the author of more than two hundred essays published in various collective
volumes and academic journals; and of hundreds of articles published in
newspapers and other periodicals.
He has given hundreds of lectures, mostly throughout the United States and
Canada, and all over Europe, as well as in Africa and Central and South America.
JULY 5, Thursday
// 10 am | 12.30 pm – Workshops: The Walk with HUME and The Fernando
Pessoa Game with WITEK
Baixa-Chiado
 // 12.00 pm | 1.30 pm Lecture & Discussion with PATRÍCIA REIS
“a mother, a wife and a business woman in a small country with great ideas”
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Largo do Picadeiro, 10 (door next to the street Café “Café No Chiado”)
Baixa-Chiado
Patrícia Reis (b 1970) began her journalistic career in 1988 working in different
Portuguese and international media: O independente, Sábado, Marie Claire. She
moved to New York to work at Time Magazine, and back in Portugal she
produced a TV show entitled Sexulidades and collaborated with the newspapers
Expresso and Público and the magazine Elle. She now lives in Portugal and is
the publisher of her own magazine Egoísta and partner of the Design Atelier
004. She is the author of the photo-novel Beija-me (Kiss Me, 2006), the novella
Cruz das Almas (Cross of Souls, 2004), and of the novels Amor em Segunda Mão
(Second Hand Love, 2006) and Morder-te o Coração (To Bite your Heart, 2007), all
published by Dom Quixote. Her new novel, entitled No silêncio de Deus (In God’s
Silence), was published in Portugal in September 2008 and in Brazil in March
2009 (by Lingua Geral).
 2.30 pm | 4.00 pm Being Paul Giamatti with JACINTO LUCAS PIRES
Baixa-Chiado
Jacinto Lucas Pires was born in Oporto in 1974 and now lives in Lisbon. He
is the author of two novels, Do sol and Perfeitos milagres. He won the Prémio
Europa – David Mourão-Ferreira (Bari University, Italy/Instituto Camões,
Portugal) in 2008. His other works include Assobiar em público, a short-story
collection; Azul-turquesa, a novella; and Livro usado, a travel book about Japan.
He has also written theatre plays (Writing, speaking, Extras and Sagrada família,
among others) and film scripts, and has directed two short films. Pires plays
with the music band Os Quais and writes a column about soccer in Jornal de
Notícias, a major Portuguese newspaper.
 6.30 pm | 8.00 pm Launch of the new Tagus Press edition
of Home Is an Island, by Alfred Lewis (1902-1977) and Reading
FRANK SOUSA and RUI ZINK
FLAD – Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento (Luso-American
Development Foundation), Auditorium, Rua Sacramento à Lapa, 21 (Taxi is the best way to get to FLAD; but as with all events, groups will leave from CNC
45 mins before start time)
Frank Fontes Sousa is professor of Portuguese and director of the Center
for Portuguese Studies and Culture and of Tagus Press at the University of
Massachusetts Dartmouth. He is the general editor of the Portuguese in the
Americas Book Series and the author of O Segredo de Eca: ideologia e ambiguidade em
A cidade e as serras, an often-cited book on Portugal’s foremost nineteenth-century
novelist, Eça de Queiroz.
Rui Zink (Lisbon, 1961) has published more than 30 books of fiction and many
academic articles, for which he received several awards and distinctions, namely
the Portuguese Pen 2005 prize and inclusion in the anthology Best European Fiction
2012. He received his Ph.D. in Portuguese Literature from the Universidade Nova
de Lisboa, where he is a professor at the graduate program. In 2008 he was Hélio
and Amélia Pedroso/FLAD Endowed Chair and writer in residence in the University
of Massachusetts Dartmouth, and in 2011 he was writer in residence at Middlebury
College in Vermont. He is the director of the “Portugal na América” series.
JULY 6, Friday
10 am | 12.30 pm Workshops with ADDONIZIO, GASPAR, NOVAKOVICH,
Baixa-Chiado
 3.30pm | 5.00 pm Film Screening of The Art of Amália
by BRUNO DE ALMEIDA, Director/Screenwriter.
Cinemateca Portuguesa, Rua Barata Salgueiro 39
Restauradores
Bruno de Almeida is a New York-based filmmaker. Of Portuguese origin, he was
born in Paris in March 1965. He grew up in Lisbon and moved to New York in 1985
where he has been living and working ever since. He is fluent in five languages
and has made films in the US, Europe, and Latin America.
 6.30 pm | 8.00 pm Reading with DENISE DUHAMEL, TONY MOCHAMA,
and TERRI WITEK
Teatro São Luiz, Jardim de Inverno / (Winter Garden), Rua António Maria Cardoso, 58
Baixa-Chiado
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Denise Duhamel’s most recent poetry books are Ka-Ching! (University
of Pittsburgh Press, 2009), Two and Two (Pittsburgh, 2005), Mille et un Sentiments
(Firewheel, 2005); Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems (Pittsburgh, 2001);
The Star-Spangled Banner (Southern Illinois University Press, 1999); and Kinky
(Orchises Press, 1997). A bilingual edition of her poems, Afortunada de mí
(Lucky Me), translated into Spanish by Dagmar Buchholz and David Gonzalez,
came out in 2008 with Bartleby Editores (Madrid). Her work has been anthologized
widely, including eight editions of The Best American Poetry. A recipient
of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, she is a professor at Florida
International University in Miami.
Tony Mochama is a popular newspaper columnist and performance poet
in Nairobi, with an upcoming TV show called Bar Talks on KISS TV. He has three
titles to his name What If I’m a Literary Gangsta (poetry collection), The Road
to Eldoret (short stories), and Princess Adhis & the Naijja Coca Brodaz (crime
noir, novella). Mochama has spoken at creative writing workshops in both St
Petersburg, Russia, and Montreal, Canada. He has a degree in law from the
University of Nairobi.
Terri Witek is the author of four books of poems – the most recent, Exit Island,
features Ariadne and Fernando Pessoa – and a book about Robert Lowell’s revisions
for Life Studies. Her collaborations with Brazilian visual artist Cyriaco Lopes include
site-specific installation, works on paper and video. She holds the Sullivan Chair
in Creative Writing at Stetson University.
10.00 pm Fado Clubs Excursion
JULY 7, Saturday
11.00 am | 1.00 pm Fernando Pessoa Walk with PHILIP GRAHAM
Martinho da Arcada
Strongly suggested: Bring good walking shoes, a bottle of water, and a hat
2.00 pm | 4.00 pm Fernando Pessoa Walk with PHILIP GRAHAM
Martinho da Arcada
Strongly suggested: Bring good walking shoes, a bottle of water, and a hat
“Walking on these streets, until the night falls, my life feels to me like the life
they have... There is no difference between me and these streets, save they
being streets and I a soul, which perhaps is irrelevant when we consider
the essence of things.”
Fernando Pessoa/Bernardo Soares, The Book of Disquiet
Lisbon, with its hills and vistas, its narrow streets and quiet discoveries,
is a perfect city for walking, and for drawing close to the inner life of the poet
Fernando Pessoa, who claimed that he unrolled himself in sentences and
paragraphs much the same way streets wound “every which way around the city.”
In our Pessoa walk we will follow paths the poet took and also the paths of some
of his heteronyms: Bernardo Soares (the “author” of The Book of Disquiet)
and his Rua dos Douradores, and Ricardo Reis, who in the months following
his creator’s death, wandered the street of Lisbon, sometimes in the company
of Pessoa’s ghost – at least, according to José Saramago’s novel, The Year
of the Death of Ricardo Reis. Touchstones of our tour will include Café Brasileira,
and Martinho da Arcada, two of Pessoa’s favorite hangouts, plus a few surprises,
all the while being guided by the words of Pessoa.
Philip Graham is the author of seven books of fiction and nonfiction, including
the story collections The Art of the Knock (William Morrow) and Interior Design
(Scribner), and the novel How to Read an Unwritten Language (Scribner). He
is also the co-author (with Alma Gottlieb) of two memoirs of Africa, Parallel
Worlds (Crown/Random House) and the forthcoming Braided Worlds (University
of Chicago Press). His most recent book is The Moon, Come to Earth: Dispatches
from Lisbon (University of Chicago Press), which has recently been translated
into Portuguese as Do Lado de Cá do Mar (Editorial Presença). Graham’s work has
appeared in The New Yorker, Washington Post Magazine, North American Review,
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency and elsewhere. He has been awarded
a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, a grant from
the National Endowment for the Humanities, two Illinois Arts Council grants,
and the William Peden Prize in Fiction. He teaches at the University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign, where he is a co-founder and the current nonfiction
editor of the literary/arts magazine Ninth Letter. He also teaches at the Vermont
College of Fine Arts.
 6.30 pm | 8.00 pm Reading with CHRISTINE HUME
and JOSIP NOVAKOVICH
Baixa-Chiado
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Christine Hume is the author of three books, most recently Shot (Counterpath 2010), and two chapbooks, Lullaby: Speculations on the First Active
Sense (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2008) and Ventifacts (Onmidawn, 2012). A bilingual
selected poems is coming out with Lux Books in Berlin, Germany in 2012.
She teaches in and directs the interdisciplinary Creative Writing Program
at Eastern Michigan University.
Josip Novakovich moved from Croatia to the U.S. at the age of twenty.
He has published a novel, April Fool’s Day, three story collections
(Infidelities: Stories of War and Lust, Yolk, and Salvation and Other Disasters)
and two collections of narrative essays as well as two books of practical
criticism, including Fiction Writers Workshop. His work was anthologized
in Best American Poetry, the Pushcart Prize collection, and O. Henry
Prize Stories. He has received the Whiting Writer’s Award, a Guggenheim
fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, the Ingram
Merrill Award, and an American Book Award, and he has been a writing
fellow of the New York Public Library. He has taught at Bard, Die Freie
Universität in Berlin, Penn State, and now, Concordia University
in Montreal.
JULY 8, Sunday
9.00 am | 12.30 pm Excursion and Walking Tour to Cascais guided by
SCOTT LAUGHLIN and LUÍS AMORIM DE SOUSA
- walk
- Casa das Histórias | Paula Rego Museum
Departure by train, from Cais do Sodré train station
[lunch will be included for an extra 15 euro / 17 euro for meal and wine;
sign-up for this walk on the sign-up sheets during the orientation]
Cais do Sodré
Take a walk near the poetic seaside town of Cascais with Scott Laughlin
and the Portuguese poet and memoirist Luís Amorim de Sousa. We will stroll
along cobblestone streets, hear about the history of the town, and stop to watch
the boats bobbing lazily in the sea as some brave bathers slip into the Atlantic.
We’ll walk out to the point to see the old fort and take in the views of the mouth
of the Tagus and the great sea beyond. Then we will make our way to Casa
das Histórias, the museum dedicated to the great Portuguese painter,
Paula Rego, who is a close friend of Luis’ (and was a very close friend
of Alberto de Lacerda’s). There, we’ll have a private tour of both Rego’s work
and the building, which has garnered many awards. We’ll lunch at the museum,
and then make our way back through the labyrinthine streets of Cascais
to the train back to Lisbon.
Cascais is a cosmopolitan suburb of the Portuguese capital and one of the
richest municipalities in Portugal. The former fishing village gained fame as
a resort for Portugal’s royal family in the late 19th century and early 20th century.
Nowadays, it is a popular vacation spot for both Portuguese and foreign tourists,
surrounded by popular beaches, such as Guincho Beach to the west, and the
lush Sintra mountains to the north.
The Casa das Histórias Paula Rego was designed by the architect Eduardo
Souto de Moura (Pritzker Architecture Prize 2011). The building makes use
of certain aspects of the region’s historical architecture, which is here
reinterpreted in a contemporary way. It can be immediately recognized
thanks to its two pyramid-shaped towers and the red-colored concrete used
in its construction. The land and trees which previously existed at the site
are incorporated as fundamental elements, while four wings, of varying heights
and sizes, make up the building. The building itself is subdivided into rooms
which lead into one another and are laid out around the higher central room
which houses the temporary exhibition. The building’s interior has 750m2
of exhibition space, on top of the technical and service areas, and is decorated
in neutral shades and paved with the blue-grey marble of Cascais. The building
also houses a shop, a café which opens onto a verdant garden and an auditorium
with 200 seats. The building’s design is fully in keeping with the artist’s wishes,
and it was Paul Rego herself who was responsible for the choice of architect.
It meets all the requirements for a museum and its various functions, without
forgetting the need to give visitors a warm welcome.
Paula Rego was born in Lisbon on 26 January 1935. She grew up in a republican
and liberal family, linked to both English and French culture, and studied
at St. Julian’s School in Carcavelos, spending her childhood and adolescence
in Estoril. In the 1950s, her father encouraged her to pursue her artistic career
away from the Portugal of Salazar’s dictatorship, and Paula Rego enrolled
at the prestigious Slade School of Fine Art in London, aged just 17. She met
several artists at the school, including her future husband, Victor Willing,
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whom she married in 1959 and with whom she would later have three children
(Carolina, Victoria and Nicholas). Having divided her time between Portugal and
London throughout the 1960s, Paula Rego settled permanently in London in 1976.
However, she continued to visit Portugal frequently, returning mostly to her family
home in Ericeira. This house was to become a regular feature of her artistic work,
since it held many memories and evoked images relating to a certain “Portuguese
culture” she associated with her childhood. A further link to Portuguese culture
would come later, in the form of Lila Nunes, Vic’s former nurse, who is of
Portuguese background and has been Paula’s favorite model since 1988.Paula
Rego’s work got her important recognition fairly early on in her career but it was
in particular after the 1990s, when the artist was already in her fifties, that she
became a fundamental reference not only in Portuguese and English art circles,
but all over the world. She was regularly invited to produce work for galleries and
specific exhibitions, often establishing a dialogue with their collections. In 1990,
she was appointed the first Associated Artist of the National Gallery in London.
With her prodigious imagination, Paula Rego has explored many different
techniques and artistic languages over the course of her career, while continuing
to display surprising coherence throughout her work. She has held countless
solo and retrospective exhibitions at leading international museums and galleries,
as well as winning a host of awards and prizes.She currently lives and works in
London, and is represented by Marlborough Fine Art.
 3.00 pm | 5.30 pm Workshops The Walk with CHRISTINE HUME,
All Writing Is Travel Writing with PHILIP GRAHAM, and The Fernando Pessoa Game
with TERRI WITEK
Baixa-Chiado
 7.00 | 8.30 pm An evening with ROBERT WILSON: "1. Have you been here
before? 2. No this is the first time"
Centro Cultural de Belém, room Luís de Freitas Branco
Praça do Império
Robert Wilson first signature works include King of Spain (1969), Deafman Glance
(1970), The Life and Times of Joseph Stalin (1973), and A Letter for Queen Victoria
(1974). With Philip Glass, he created the opera Einstein on the Beach (1976),
which achieved worldwide acclaim and altered conventional notions of a moribund
form. Following Einstein, Wilson worked increasingly with major European theaters
and opera houses. In collaboration with internationally renowned writers and
performers, Wilson created landmark original works that were featured regularly
at the Festival d’Automne in Paris, Der Berliner Ensemble, the Schaubühne in
Berlin, the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, the Salzburg Festival, and the Brooklyn
Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival. At the Schaubühne he created Death,
Destruction & Detroit (1979) and Death, Destruction & Detroit II (1987); and at the
Thalia he presented the groundbreaking musical works The Black Rider (1991)
and Alice (1992). He has also applied his striking formal language to the operatic
repertoire, including Parsifal in Hamburg (1991), Houston (1992), and Los Angeles
(2005); The Magic Flute (1991) and Madame Butterfly (1993); and Lohengrin at
the Metropolitan Opera in New York (1998 & 2006). Wilson recently completed
an entirely new production, based on an epic poem from Indonesia, entitled I La
Galigo, which toured extensively and appeared at the Lincoln Center Festival in the
summer of 2005. Wilson’s practice is firmly rooted in the fine arts and his drawings,
furniture designs, and installations have been exhibited in museums and galleries
internationally. His numerous awards and honors include an Obie award for
direction, the Golden Lion for sculpture from the Venice Biennale, the 3rd Dorothy
and Lillian Gish Prize for Lifetime Achievement, a nomination for the Pulitzer Prize
in Drama, the Golden Lion for Sculpture from the Venice Biennale, election to the
American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the National Design Award for Lifetime
Achievement. He has been named a “Commandeur des arts et des letters” by the
French Minister of Culture. This evening is hosted as part of a collaboration with
The Lisbon Consortium.
JULY 9, Monday
10.00 am | 12.30 pm Workshops with ADDONIZIO, GASPAR, NOVAKOVICH,
Baixa-Chiado
 2.30 pm | 4.00 pm Publishing Panel with RESA ALBOHER (The St. Petersburg
Review), Meakin Armstrong (Guernica), Philip Graham (Ninth Letter), Chad
Post (Open Letter Books), Catherine Tice (The New York Review of Books),
GUILHERMINA GOMES (Círculo de Leitores)
Baixa-Chiado
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Resa Alboher is a founding editor of The St. Petersburg Review.
Meakin Armstrong is fiction editor of Guernica (guernicamag.com),
a top-ranked literary and political site that has received acclaim from
magazines such as Esquire. He is a freelance writer and a former employee
of The New Yorker.
The multi-talented Philip Graham is a co-founder and the current nonfiction
editor of the literary/arts magazine Ninth Letter.
Chad W. Post is the director of Open Letter Books, a relatively new press at the
University of Rochester dedicated to publishing contemporary literature from
around the world. In addition, he is the managing editor of Three Percent, a blog
and review site that promotes literature in translation and is home to both the
Translation Database and the Best Translated Book Awards.
Catherine Tice lives in Fort Greene in Brooklyn, and has worked at The New
York Review of Books since 1983, where she currently serves as the Associate
Publisher. She has made slender contributions to the Berlin edition of Le Monde
Diplomatique, and most recently to The St. Petersburg Review.
Guilhermina Gomes Age: 60; 1976/78 – Living and studying in England
(Diploma in English Studies extra-mural Cambridge University);
1983 – Degree in History – Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa; 1990 – Publishing
summer course – Stanford University; 32 years serving Círculo de Leitores;
28 years in publishing; 26 years of Frankfurt; Book Fairs; Many years attending
Book Expo and visitor in New York of publishers; and literary agents;
Juror of the Literary Prize José Saramago promoted by the Foundation
Círculo de Leitores.
6.00 pm | 8.30 pm Participant Open Mic Reading hosted
by the San-Francisco based Portuguese Artists Colony
Reading Series
[sign-up for the reading and “live writing” segments on the sign-up sheets
during the orientation]
Grémio Literário, Rua Ivens, 37
Baixa-Chiado
JULY 10, Tuesday
9.00 am | 12 pm (free program afternoon) Excursion to Sintra
[an extra fee will apply; lunch in Sintra will also be extra; sign-up for this walk
on the sign-up sheets during the orientation]
Departure by train from Rossio train station
Restauradores
Sintra is a town in Sintra Municipality in Portugal, located in the Grande
Lisboa subregion and the Lisbon Region. The town is a UNESCO World Heritage
Site on account of its 19th century Romantic architecture. It has a population
of c. 33,000 inhabitants. Sintra has become a major tourist attraction, with many
day-trippers visiting from nearby Lisbon. Attractions include the fabulous
Pena Palace (19th c.) and the castle Castelo dos Mouros (8th or 9th century,
reconstructed in the 19th century) with a breath-taking view of the Sintra-Cascais
Natural Park, and the summer residence of the kings of Portugal Palácio Nacional
de Sintra (largely 15th/16th century), in the town itself. The Sintra Mountain
Range, one of the largest parks in the Lisbon area, (Serra de Sintra) is also a
major tourist attraction. In 1809 Lord Byron wrote to his friend Francis Hodgson,
“I must just observe that the village of Cintra in Estremadura is the most
beautiful in the world.”
July 11, Wednesday
10.00 am | 12.30 pm Workshop with ADDONIZIO, GASPAR, NOVAKOVICH,
Baixa-Chiado
 2.30 pm | 4.00 pm Live Poets Society – Literature as a performing act
and the literature of my fellow contemporanean writers
with PATRÍCIA PORTELA
Baixa-Chiado
Patrícia Portela studied set and costume design, sound design, scriptwriting and
documentary in Lisbon, at the European Film College in Denmark, and elsewhere.
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She has written and coordinated several performances including Operação Cardume
Rosa, T5, Lan Tao, and Wasteband. She has also published four books, including
Odilia (2007) and Para Cima e Não Para Norte (2008). A September 2010 piece, The
Private Collection of Acácio Nobre, is also forthcoming as a book. Portela’s work
has won numerous awards, including the Prize Acarte/Madalena Azeredo Perdigão
for Flatland I, a giant multimedia book. Her Flatland Trilogy won special mention
from the association of Portuguese critics for its dramaturgy, text, and use of space.
In 2009 she received funding from the Ministry of Culture to develop her research on
trans-disciplinary projects under the auspices of the Prado production house.
 6.30 pm | 8.00 pm Reading and Q&A with GONÇALO M. TAVARES
and ANNA KUSHNER
FLAD – Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento (Luso-American
Development Foundation), Auditorium, Rua Sacramento à Lapa, 21 (Taxi is the best way to get to FLAD; but as with all events, groups will leave from CNC
45 mins before start time)
The Portuguese writer Gonçalo M. Tavares was born in Luanda in 1970
and grew up in Portugal. Beside his work as writer, he teaches Theory of Science
at a university in Lisbon. Since 2001, Tavares has surprised his readers with
the variety of his books and has been awarded an impressive number of literary
prizes in a very short time. In 2005 he won the José Saramago Prize for young
writers under 35. In his speech at the award ceremony, Saramago commented:
“Jerusalém is a great book, and truly deserves a place among the great works
of Western literature. Gonçalo M. Tavares has no right to be writing so well
at the age of 35. One feels like punching him!” Jerusalém was also awarded the
Prêmio Portugal Telecom de Literatura em Língua Portuguesa in 2007. Tavares’
work has been published in the USA by Dalkey Archive and in France by Hamy, as
well as in other countries including Brazil, Israel, Italy, Mexico, Poland and Spain.
In Germany, Jerusalem will be launched by the publishing house DVA/Random
House in 2011. Recently, his novel Aprender a rezar na Era de Técnica has received
the prestigious Prize for the Best Foreign Book 2010 in France. This award has
previously been given to authors including Gabriel García Márquez, Elias Canetti,
John Updike, Mario Vargas Llosa and António Lobo Antunes. This novel was also
shortlisted for two renowned French literary awards, the Femina Étranger Prize
and the Médicis Prize.
Anna Kushner translates from Spanish, French, and Portuguese. Her writing
has appeared in Dzanc Books Best of the Web 2008, The Bucks County Writer, Crab
Orchard Review, Epiphany, and Wild River Review. She is the translator of the novels
The Halfway House by Guillermo Rosales and Jerusalem by Gonçalo Tavares, and of
The Autobiography of Fidel Castro by Norberto Fuentes. She was a finalist for the
John Guyon Literary Nonfiction Prize in 2007.
JULY 12, Thursday
10.00 am | 12.30 pm Workshops: All Writing is Travel Writing with GRAHAM;
The Walk with HUME; and The Fernando Pessoa Game with WITEK
Baixa-Chiado
 2.30 pm | 4.00 pm Reading plus Q&A on Portuguese Poetry
with RICHARD ZENITH
Teatro São Luiz, Jardim de Inverno / (Winter Garden), Rua António Maria Cardoso 58
Baixa-Chiado
Born in Washington DC, Richard Zenith is a long-time resident of Portugal,
where he works as a free-lance writer, translator, researcher and critic.
He has prepared numerous editions of Fernando Pessoa’s work and translated
much of his prose and poetry into English (A Little Larger Than the Entire
Universe: Selected Poems, The Book of Disquiet, The Selected Prose
of Fernando Pessoa and other titles). He has also translated poetry
by the Galician-Portuguese troubadours, Luís de Camões, Cesário Verde, Sophia
de Mello Breyner and contemporary Portuguese poets. His Education by Stone:
Selected Poems, by Brazil’s João Cabral de Melo Neto, won the 2006 translation
award from the Academy of American Poets. Zenith’s fiction translations include
novels by António Lobo Antunes, José Luandino Vieira and José Luís Peixoto.
Author of a Fotobiografia de Fernando Pessoa, he has also published poems
and a collection of short stories, Terceiras Pessoas.
 6.30 | 8.00 pm Tribute to ALBERTO DE LACERDA
British Council, Conference room , Rua Luís Fernandes 1-3.
The list of Alberto de Lacerda’s friends and acquaintances is absolutely prolific
and touches upon every continent. His story begins with Edith Sitwell, the grand
dame of English letters, through whom Alberto met Arthur Waley, T.S. Eliot,
and Rene Char, among others. It continues to America, where he befriended
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Anne Sexton, Robert Duncan, Rosanna Warren, and John Ashbery. Along the
way, he collected friendships with Elizabeth Bishop, David Hockney, Octavio Paz,
Robert Creeley, and Louis Zukovsky, to name a few, and his life ends with
an intimate friendship with Pulitzer Prize winning author Jhumpa Lahiri.
Readers will read from letters, journals, poems, and remembrances in order
to paint a picture not just of Alberto and his work but of all of these literary
luminaries and an international life of letters.
JULY 13, FRIDAY
10.00 am | 12.30 am Workshop with ADDONIZIO, GASPAR, NOVAKOVICH,
Baixa-Chiado
 6.30 pm | 7.30 pm Reading with PHILIP GRAHAM
Reservatório da Mãe d’Água, Praça das Amoreiras 10
Philip Graham reads from his most recent book The Moon, Come to Earth:
Dispatches from Lisbon (University of Chicago Press), which has recently been
translated into Portuguese as Do Lado de Cá do Mar (Editorial Presença).
8.00 pm | 10.00 pm Farewell reception
Mãe d’Água, Praça das Amoreiras 10
JULY 14, SATURDAY
Participants depart.
IV. Maps & Directions
 1. THE ILP HOMEBASE
 Centro Nacional de Cultura (CNC)
Located a two-minute walk from the Metro Baixa-Chiado
Centro Nacional de Cultura (CNC)
Rua António Maria Cardoso 68
1249-101 Lisboa
213 466 722
www.cnc.pt
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 2. TO THE CNC FROM YOUR ACCOMMODATIONS
 Hotel Lisboa Plaza (Travessa do Salitre 7)
to the CNC (Rua António Maria Cardoso 68) by Metro
1. From the hotel, walk to Avenida da Liberdade, around 2 min. (0.1 mi)
2. Go left at Travessa do Salitre in the direction of Avenida da Liberdade
3. Turn left to Av. da Liberdade
4. Walk to Avenida (Metro Station), around 2 min.
5. Take the Blue line in the direction of Santa Apolónia (2 min., 2 stops)
6. Exit at Baixa-Chiado
7. Follow Largo do Chiado Directions (in the Metro)
8. After taking 4 escalators you will be at Largo do Chiado
9. At Largo do Chiado turn left at Rua António Maria Cardoso
10. You will find the CNC on your left (no 68)
 Hotel Lisboa Plaza to the CNC
(Rua António Maria Cardoso 68) by foot (0.8 mi)
1. Go South at Travessa do Salitre in the direction of Praça da Alegria
2. Turn left to Praça da Alegria (0.07 mi)
3. Turn left to continue on Praça da Alegria
4. Turn right in the direction of Rua da Conceição da Glória (0.07 mi)
5. Turn left to continue to Rua da Conceição da Glória
6. Turn slightly left to Rua das Taipas (0.25 mi)
7. Turn left in the direction of Rua São Pedro de Alcântara (0.07 mi)
8. Continue in front to Largo Trindade Coelho
9. Turn left to continue at Largo Trindade Coelho
10. Turn right in the direction of Rua Nova da Trindade (0.18 mi)
11. Continue to Rua António Maria Cardoso
12. You will find the CNC on your left, nº 68 (0.07 mi)
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 Living Lounge Hostel (Rua do Crucifixo 116)
to the CNC (Rua António Maria Cardoso, 68) by foot
1. When you exit the Hostel at Rua do Crucifixo turn left
2. Turn right at Rua de São Nicolau
3. Turn right at Rua Nova do Almada
4. Turn left, direction Rua Garrett
5. At Rua Garrett continue up to Largo do Chiado
6. Turn left at Rua António Maria Cardoso
7. You will find the CNC on your left.
Or you can take the faster but not so scenic walk:
1. When you exit the Hostel at Rua do Crucifixo turn left
2. Enter the Metro Station and walk to the other side, direction Largo do Chiado
(don’t take the Metro! The Metro Baixa-Chiado station has 2 exits: Chiado,
at Largo do Chiado and Baixa at Rua do Crucifixo.)
3. Take 4 escalators and you will be at Largo do Chiado.
4. Turn left at Rua António Maria Cardoso
5. You will find the CNC on your left.
 Lisb’on Hostel to the CNC by foot (0.28 mi)
Rua do Ataíde, 7A
1. Follow Rua do Ataíde in the direction of Rua do Alecrim
2. Turn left on Rua do Alecrim (0.14 mi)
3. Turn right to Largo do Chiado
4. Turn right at Rua António Maria Cardoso
5. You will find the CNC on your left, nº 68 (0.07 mi)
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 3. PROGRAM VENUES
 Pessoa walk – meeting point – Martinho da Arcada
From the CNC to Martinho da Arcada (7-minute walk)
 The US Embassy Deputy Chief of Mission Residence
Avenida da Torre de Belém, 11
From the CNC the best and quickest way there is to take a taxi
to Avenida da Torre de Belém.
But you can also take Tram 15E.
1. When you exit the CNC turn right.
2. At Largo do Chiado turn left and then left again at Rua do Alecrim.
3. At the end of Rua do Alecrim you will be at Cais do Sodré.
4. At Cais do Sodré, Tram Stop, take the Tram 15E (23 min, 15 stops)
direction ALGÉS.
5. Exit at Largo da Princesa.
6. Follow Rua Bartolomeu Dias, direction Avenida da Torre de Belém 7. Turn right at Avenida da Torre de Belém. INTERNATIONAL LITERARY PROGRAM
 CETAPS (NOVA New University), Avenida de Berna 26-C
Directions from the CNC
1. Take the Metro at Baixa-Chiado (near CNC).
2. Blue line – direction Amadora Este (3 min., 3 stops).
3. Exit at Marquês de Pombal.
4. Change to the Yellow line – direction Campo Grande (3 stops).
5. Exit at Campo Pequeno (detailed directions from here are below).
The metro is a five-minute walk away from the university. Get off the metro
at Campo Pequeno station, the exit closest to the front (1st wagon) of the metro.
When you reach the ticket area, exit to your left. As you come out of the metro,
turn left, walk along the wall of the metro entrance and you are at Avenida de Berna.
Go right on Avenida de Berna, walk along the sidewalk for 3-4 minutes and
the campus is behind the white wall on your right, right where Banco Santander
(red and white) is. The bank is actually inside the campus, so enter the next door
after the Santander bank. The building is the tallest tower on your right as you enter
the campus. The tower has a glass façade, which is supposed to remind us of a book
open and flat. The Auditorium is on the 2nd floor. The classroom should be
in the same tower and the exact location will be confirmed before the event.
If anyone gets lost in the area, just ask for Universidade Nova. As a landmark
and a lunch/tourist tip: Almost exactly across the street from the University
is the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, great garden and one of the best small
museums in the world with a great cafeteria overlooking a small lake.
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 University of Lisbon
Faculdade de Letras – Universidade de Lisboa
Alameda da Universidade – Cidade Universitária
Directions from the CNC to the University of Lisbon
2. Blue line – direction Amadora Este (3 min., 3 stops)
3. Exit at Marquês de Pombal
4. Change to the Yellow line – direction Campo Grande (7 min., 5 stops)
5. Exit at Cidade Universitária.
6. 2 minutes walk (0.1 mi) (see detailed directions from here below)
When you get off the metro, exit via the tunnel (not the stairs!). After leaving the
tunnel, do not cross but go straight ahead along the main building of the University
– Reitoria – on your left on the other side of the road. When you reach the end
of Reitoria, turn left at the zebra crossing. The Faculdade de Letras will be
in front of you. Program assistants will meet participants by the main entrance
door. There will be directions pointing to the room inside.
 FLAD (The Luso-American Development Foundation)
Rua do Sacramento à Lapa, 21 The best and quickest way there is to take a taxi.
There is no metro station close to FLAD. But you can also take a bus:
Directions to FLAD by Bus from Universidade de Lisboa
1. Take the bus at Cidade Universitária
2. BUS 738 direction Alto De Santo Amaro (8 min., 18 stops)
3. Exit at Av. Infante Santo
4. Walk to Rua do Sacramento à Lapa 21 Around 7 min. (0.34 mi):
5. Follow North east direction Rua de Sant’Ana à Lapa
6. Turn right at Rua de Sant’Ana à Lapa
7. Walk 140 m and turn right at Travessa da Conceição à Lapa
8. Walk 120 m and continue until Rua de São Domingos
9. Walk 140 m and turn right at Rua do Sacramento à Lapa
10. You will find FLAD on your left.
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 Cais do Sodré (train station to Cascais)
From the CNC to Cais do Sodré (0.43 mi, 8 minutes walk)
1. When you exit the CNC turn right.
2. At Largo do Chiado turn left and then left again at Rua do Alecrim.
3. At the end of Rua do Alecrim you will be at Cais do Sodré.
4. The train station is across the street on you right.
 Grémio Literário, Rua Ivens, 37
From the CNC – Walk (around 3 min.)
1. When you exit the CNC, turn right and again right at Travessa dos Teatros.
2. At Largo do Picadeiro, cross the street to the other side and take the stairs down. You will be at Largo de São Carlos.
3. Continue in front to Rua Capelo.
4. Turn left at Rua Ivens.
5. You will find Grémio Literário on your right (Nº 37).
 Teatro São Luiz, Rua António Maria Cardoso 58
From the CNC to Teatro São Luiz (10 seconds walk!)
When you exit the CNC, turn left. You will find Teatro São Luiz on your left.
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 Cinemateca Portuguesa, Rua Barata Salgueiro, 39
From the CNC to Cinemateca Portuguesa
1. Walk to the Metro Station Baixa-Chiado at Largo do Chiado (2 min walk)
2. Take the Blue line, direction Amadora Este (2 min, 2 stops)
3. Exit at Avenida.
4. At Avenida follow North East (go up)
5. Turn left at Rua Barata Salgueiro (0.14 mi).
6. You will find Cinemateca on your left (0.09 mi).
 Café Martinho da Arcada, Praça do Comércio, 3
CNC to Martinho da Arcada – By TRAM
1. When you exit the CNC, turn right
2. You will find the Tram Stop on your left
3. Take the Tram 28E – Direction Martim Moniz
4. Exit at Igreja Madalena (7 min., 5 stops)
5. Walk to Praça do Comércio (around 4 min, 350 m)
6. At Rua da Conceição go back, diretion Rua dos Fanqueiros
7. Turn left in Rua da Prata
8. Continue to Praça do Comércio
9. You will find Martinho da Arcada
CNC to Martinho da Arcada – WALK (10 min.)
1. When you exit the CNC turn right to Largo do Chiado
2. At Largo do Chiado, Turn right to Rua Garrett
3. At the end of Rua Garrett, turn right to Rua Nova do Almada
4. At the end of the street, turn left to Rua de São Julião
5. Turn right to Rua da Prata
6. You will find Martinho da Arcada on your left
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 CCB – Centro Cultural de Belém, Praça do Império
From CNC to CCB – Centro Cultural de Belém
Green line – Direction Cais do Sodré (1 stop)
2. Exit at Cais do Sodré
3. In Cais do Sodré (Av. 24 de Julho) take the Tram 15E
in the direction Algés – Jardim (25 min, 14 stops)
4. Exit at Centro Cultural de Belém
5. Walk to Praça do Império.
6. You will find CCB
(instead of taking the Metro, you can also walk to Cais do Sodré – 10 min.)
 British Council, Rua de Luís Fernandes, 1
From CNC to British Council
1. Follow Rua António Maria Cardoso north in the direction of Largo do Chiado
2. Turn left at Largo do Chiado
3. Turn right at Rua da Misericórdia 4. You will find the Bus station on your right.
5. Take the Bus 758, direction Portas de Benfica (6 min., 4 stops)
6. Exit at Rua da Escola Politécnica
7. On Rua da Escola Politécnica, walk South, in the direction of the river
8. Turn right on Rua de São Marçal
9. Turn right on Rua de Luís Fernandes
10. You will find the British Council on your left.
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 Mãe d’Água, Praça das Amoreiras, 10
From Centro Nacional de Cultura to Mãe d’Água (around 20 min. by bus)
1. Follow Rua António Maria Cardoso north in the direction of Largo do Chiado
2. Turn left at Largo do Chiado
3. Turn right at Rua da Misericórdia 4. You will find the Bus station on your right.
5. Take the Bus 758, direction Portas de Benfica (6 min., 4 stops)
6. Exit at Rato
7. At Largo do Rato, find the street Calçada Bento Rocha Cabral.
You should walk up this street. (0.12 mi)
8. Turn right to Praça das Amoreiras
9. Mãe d’Água.
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