King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center

King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center
Arte Institute is pleased to present “New Portuguese Writers”, a series of lectures and performances with Portuguese writers
Dulce Maria Cardoso and Afonso Cruz.
This event will open at Met Museum with a performance by guest actresses Monica Calle and Isabel Abreu, on October 25,
at 4 pm.
The second event will be a lecture by Dulce Maria Cardoso (6 pm) and Afonso Cruz (7.30 pm) at New York University (NYU)
- King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, on October 27.
The lectures will be in english and will also be followed by a performance by actress Monica Calle, as part of a group of
original idea by Storytailors.
Dulce Maria Cardoso (born 1964) is a Portuguese writer. She was born in Fonte Longa/Trás-os-Montes but moved to Luanda,
Angola as an infant. Her family came back to Portugal in 1975 along with half a million other “retornados” as Portugal’s
overseas colonies gained independence.
includes novels as well as short stories. Her debut novel Campo de Sangue (2002) won the Grand Prize “Acontece de
Romance”. Os Meus Sentimentos won the EU Prize for Literature, and O Chão dos Pardais (2009) won the Portuguese Pen
Club Award. Her fourth novel O Retorno (2011) was also published to wide acclaim.
Afonso Cruz, born in 1971 in Figueira da Foz, years later he would visit more than 60 countries. He studied at the António
e Lola Benites), and a year later The Encyclopedia of the World Story (Enciclopédia da Estória Universal), which won the
o Meu Pai) and The Human Contradiction (A Contradição Humana).
Lisbon magazine and the Best Novel of 2012 by the readers of the reference newspaper Público. He was elected as one of
the 40 talents for the future by the newspaper Expresso. He has a monthly column, “Parallax”, in the arts newspaper Jornal de
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