Ana Luísa Amaral

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Portuguese poet and professor Ana Luísa Amaral

Ana Luísa Amaral was born in Lisbon, in 1956, and lives in the north of Portugal. Professor at the University of Porto, she holds a Ph.D. on the poetry of Emily Dickinson and has academic publications (in Portugal and abroad) in the areas of English and American Poetry, Comparative Poetics and Feminist Studies. She is a senior researcher and co-director of the Ins*ute for Comparative Literature Margarida Losa. Co-author (with Ana Gabriela Macedo) of the Dictionary of Feminist Criticism (Afrontamento, 2005) and responsible for the annotated edition of New Portuguese Letters (Dom Quixote, 2010) and the coordinator of the international project New Portuguese Letters 40 Years Later, financed by FCT, that involves 10 countries and over 60 researchers. Editor ofseveral academic books, such as Novas Cartas Portuguesas entre Portugal e o Mundo (with Marinela Freitas, Dom Quixote, 2014), or New Portuguese Letters to the World (with Marinela Freitas, Peter Lang, 2015).

She is currently preparing a book of poetry, a novel and two books of essays.

Several plays were staged around her work, such as O olhar diagonal das coisas, A história da Aranha Leopoldina, Próspero Morreu, or Como Tu.

She is currently being translated into English by Margaret Jull Costa, with books published in the United Kingdom and the United States.

In 2021, a book of essays on her work will come out by Peter Lang (ed. Claire Williams) *led The Most Perfect Excess: The Works of Ana Luísa Amaral.

1 Literary career
2 Books
- 2.1 Poetry
- 2.2 Essay
- 2.3 Theater
- 2.4 Fiction
- 2.5 Children's books
- 2.6 Translations
- 2.7 Ana Luísa Amaral’s books published in other countries
  - 2.7.1 United States
  - 2.7.2 Brazil
  - 2.7.3 Colombia
  - 2.7.4 France
  - 2.7.5 Hong Kong
  - 2.7.6 Italy
  - 2.7.7 Mexico
  - 2.7.8 The Netherlands
  - 2.7.9 Spain
  - 2.7.10 Sweden
  - 2.7.11 Venezuela
3 Prizes and awards
4 External links
5 References

Literary career

Amaral's first volume of poetry, Minha Senhora de Quê (Mistress of What), was published in 1990. The collection's *le alluded to Maria Teresa Horta's 1971 volume Minha Senhora de Mim (Milady of Me), thereby explicitly inscribing Amaral's work into the emergent genealogy of Portuguese women’s poetry. Since then, she has published fifteen further original collections of poetry and two volumes of collected poems, in addition to several translations (including poetry by Emily Dickinson, John Updike and Louise Glück) and books for children.

Amaral's poetry has been translated into several languages and volumes of her writings have been published in the United States of America, United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, France, Brazil, Italy, Sweden, Holland, Venezuela, Colombia, Hong Kong, Mexico and Slovenia. She is also represented in many Portuguese and international anthologies. Her work has been awarded several distinctions such as the Gold Medal of Câmara Municipal de Matosinhos and the Gold Medal of Câmara Municipal do Porto, for "services to literature", or the Medaille de la Ville de Paris, and several literary prizes, such as the Correntes d’Escritas Literary Prize, o Premio di Poesia Giuseppe Acerbi, o Great Prize for Poetry of the Portuguese Writers' *ociation, the António Gedeão Prize, the InterNational Socialist German Workers' Partyonale Fondazione Roma, Ritratti di Poesia Prize, o PEN Prize for Fiction, Prize for Essay from the Portuguese *ociation of Literary Critics, the Premio Leteo (Spain), Best Poetry Book of the Year from the Grémio de Librerias de Madrid, Vergílio Ferreira Prize, Sá de Miranda Literary Prize or the Premio Reina Sofía de Poesía Iberoamericana.

Books

Poetry

Minha senhora de quê, Fora do Texto, 1990; re., Quetzal, 1999
Coisas de partir, Fora do Texto, 1993; re., Gótica, 2001
Epopeias, Fora do Texto, 1994
E muitos os caminhos, Poetas de Letras, 1995
Às vezes o paraíso, Quetzal, 1998; re. 2000.
Imagens, Campo das Letras, 2000
Imagias, Gótica, 2002
A arte de ser tigre, Gótica, 2003
Poesia Reunida 1990-2005, Quasi, 2005
A génese do amor, Campo das Letras, 2005; 2nd edition, 2006
Entre dois rios e outras noites, Campo das Letras, 2008
Se fosse um intervalo, Dom Quixote, 2009
Inversos, Poesia 1990-2010, Dom Quixote, 2010
Vozes, Dom Quixote, 2011; 2nd edition 2012; 3rd edition 2015
Escuro, *írio & Alvim, 2014
E Todavia, *írio & Alvim, 2015
What's in a name, *írio & Alvim, 2017
Ágora, *írio & Alvim, 2019
Mundo, *írio & Alvim, 2021 (forthcoming)

Essay

Arder a palavra e outros incêndios, Relógio D'Água, 2018

Theater

Próspero Morreu, Caminho, 2011

Fiction

Ara, Sextante, 2013

Children's books

Gaspar, o Dedo Diferente e Outras Histórias, (illust. Elsa Navarro), Campo das Letras, 1999
A História da Aranha Leopoldina, (illust. Elsa Navarro), Campo das Letras, 2000
A Relíquia, based on the novel by Eça de Queirós, Quasi, 2008
Auto de Mofina Mendes, based on the play by Gil Vicente, Quasi, 2008
A História da Aranha Leopoldina, (illust. Raquel Pinheiro), Civilização, 2010 (reviewed edition, with CD. Music by Clara Ghimel, and Nuno Aragão, sung by Rosa Quiroga, Nuno Aragão and Sissa Afonso)
Gaspar, o Dedo Diferente, (illust. Abigail Ascenso), Civilização, 2011 (reviewed edition)
A Tempestade, (illust. Marta Madureira), Quidnovi 2011 - Selected for the Portuguese National Reading Plan
Como Tu, (illust. Elsa Navarro), Quidnovi, 2012 (With CD - audiobook and songs, music of Antonio Pinho Vargas, piano by Álvaro Teixeira Lopes, voices of Pedro Lamares, Rute Pimenta and Ana Luísa Amaral - Selected for the Portuguese National Reading Plan
Lengalenga de Lena, a Hiena, (illust. Jaime Ferraz), Zero a Oito, 2019
A História da Aranha Leopoldina, (illust. Jaime Ferraz), Zero a Oito, 2019
Gaspar, o Dedo Diferente, (illust. Chico Bolila), Zero a Oito, 2019
Como Tu, (illust. Alberto Faria), Zero a Oito, 2020

Translations

Xanana Gusmão, Mar Meu/My Sea of Timor, co-transl. with Kristy Sword (Granito, 1998)
Eunice de Souza, Poemas Escolhidos (Cotovia, 2001)
John Updike, Ponto Último e Outros Poemas (Civilização, 2009)
Emily Dickinson, Cem Poemas (Relógio D'Água, 2010)
Emily Dickinson, Duzentos Poemas (Relógio d’Água, 2015)
Patricia Highsmith, Carol (Relógio d'Água, 2015)
William Shakespeare, 30 Sonetos (Relógio d'Água, 2015)
Mário de Sá-Carneiro, Seven Songs of Decline and Other Poems, co-trad. Margaret Jull Costa, ed. Ricardo Vasconcelos (Francis Boutle Publishers, 2020)
Louise Glück, A Íris Selvagem (Relógio d'Água, 2020)
Arnold Wesker, Primavera Selvagem (Edições Humus, 2020)
Louise Glück, Vita Nova (Relógio d'Água, 2021)
Emily Dickinson, Herbarium (Relógio d'Água, forthcoming)
Margaret Atwood, Políticas de Poder (Relógio d'Água, forthcoming)