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José Pedro Leite

JOSÉ PEDRO LEITE is the author of nine poetry collections. A translator and editor, Leite was born in the northern city of Porto and has always lived near the ocean. Trained in law and a secondary school teacher for a short time, he is a singular figure in a generation of prolific young Portuguese writers. In 2009, he won the Políbio Gomes dos Santos literary prize for his second book As mãos e o lume (The Hands and the Flame). A Invenção do Verão (The Invention of Summer) was published in 2019 and his most recent work, A construção dos lábios (Building Lips) has just been launched by Poética Edições in Braga, Portugal.

The Craft of Knives
by José Pedro Leite, translated from the Portuguese by Richard Simas

June 14, 2021 Contributed By: José Pedro Leite, Richard Simas

Crowded Beach

In the middle of winter, I discovered an invincible summer inside me.                                                                -Albert Camus (from Part III of “The Invention of Summer”) My idea […]

Filed Under: Featured Content, Featured Translation, Poetry, Translation Posted On: June 14, 2021

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