The Research Centre for Luso-Asian Studies (CIELA) is pleased to invite all those interested to the Webinar “Maria Valéria Rezende’s Literature. An interview with the author”, being held on November 10, 2021, 8:00pm, via Zoom.

Maria Valéria Rezende writes poetry and juvenile literature. She is also a translator. In 2020, her novel “Carta à rainha louca” (Ed. Companhia das Letras) won third place at the Oceans Award and among the finalists for the Jabuti Award. In 2017, the novel “Outros Cantos” (Ed. Alfaguara) won the Casa de las Américas Prize (Cuba), the São Paulo Literature Prize and third place in the Jabuti Prize. In 2015, “Quarenta Dias” (Ed. Alfaguara) earned her the Jabuti awards for best fiction novel and book of the year. In 2013 she won the Jabuti Prize in the juvenile category with the novel “Ouro Dentro da Cabeça” (Autêntica Ed.). “No Risco do Caracol” was the winner of the children’s category at the Jabuti Award in 2009.

Prof. Raquel Abi-Sâmara (UM) will conducting the interview and conversation with the author. Which aims at covering aspects of her literary creation (writing practices, methods, style and choice of themes), as well as a close look at specificities of the translation of her work from Portuguese to Chinese.

Dr. Dora Huang (Communications University of China) is a young Chinese researcher and lecturer on literary translations of Portuguese language works to Chinese. She is currently working on Maria Valéria Rezende’s books and will discuss issues raised by certain chosen excerpts in the translation process from Portuguese to Chinese, with the author.