Paulo da Costa (writer)

Paulo da Costa, born in Angola and raised in Portugal, is a bilingual Canadian-Portuguese author, editor and translator living in Canada.

Works

Fiction

Scent of a Lie - 2002 - Caribbean & Canada Commonwealth Writers Prize Best First Book 2003, 2002 W.O. Mitchell City of Calgary Book Prize, 2001 Cannongate Prize - Scotland.
O Perfume da Mentira - Livros Pé d'Orelha, 2012
The Green and Purple Skin of The World - Freehand Books, 2013
The Midwife of Torment & Other Stories, 55 sudden fictions – Guernica Editions, 2017

Non-Fiction

Beyond Bullfights and Ice Hockey, Essays on Identity, Language and Writing Culture, Boavista Press, Paperback : 97809960511322015, 208 pages, April 2015
Trust the Bluer Skies : Meditations on Fatherhood, University of Regina Press, Paperback : 9780889779921, 256 pages, March 2024

Poetry

Notas-de-rodapé - Portuguese poems – Livros Pé d'Orelha, 2005

Literary translation

The Cartography of Being – Translated poems of Nuno Júdice 1970-2005 LPO 2012

Audio chapbooks

Notas-de-rodapé - Portuguese poems – Livros Pé d'Orelha 2005Midwife of Torment & Other Stories - Livros Pé d'Orelha 2005Twenty Poems – English Poems - Livros Pé d'Orelha – 2006XX poemas - Portuguese poems - Livros Pé d'Orelha - 2006The Book of Catalogues – Livros Pé d'Orelha - 2010

Awards

2024 Outstanding Calgary Artist Award
2024 James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction
2023 James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction
2020 James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction
2003 Caribbean & Canada Region Commonwealth Writers Prize – First Book
2002 W.O. Mitchell City of Calgary Book Prize
2001 Canongate Short-Fiction Prize
1999 CBC Alberta Anthology – Short Story

Portuguese

2023 Prémio Alberto Bastos – Poesia
2003 ProVerbo. Prémio – Poesia
2003 ProVerbo. Prémio – Conto