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 Institute 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 of several 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.

In 2016, a book of essays on her work will come out by Peter Lang (Eds. Claire Williams and Teresa Louro).

Literary career

Amaral's first volume of poetry, Minha Senhora de Quê (Mistress of What), was published in 1990. The collection's title 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.[1] Since then, she has published ten further original collections of poetry and two volumes of collected poems, in addition to several translations (including poetry by Emily Dickinson and John Updike) and books for children.

Amaral's poetry has been translated into several languages and volumes of her writings have been published in France, Brazil, Italy, Sweden, Holland, Venezuela, Colombia and will soon be published in Mexico and in Germany. She is also represented in many Portuguese and international anthologies. Her work has been awarded several literary prizes, including Portugal's most important prize for poetry (the "Grande Prémio" of the Portuguese Writers' Association) in 2008, for her book Entre Dois Rios e Outras Noites, and the Italian Giuseppe Acerbi Prize in 2007.

Books

Poetry

Theater

Fiction

Children's books

Translations

Ana Luísa Amaral’s books published in other countries

Brazil

Colombia

France

Germany

Italy

Mexico

The Netherlands

Spain

Sweden

Venezuela

Prizes and Awards

External links

References

  1. ↑ Klobucka, Anna. "Back into the Future: Feminism in Portuguese Women’s Poetry since the 1970s." Proceedings of International Conference on the Value of Literature in and after the 70s: the case of Italy and Portugal. Utrecht: Igitur, 2006. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-24. Retrieved 2010-09-10.
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