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Richard Simas

RICHARD SIMAS is a freelance writer with a background in literature, music, and the performing arts. His publications appear in contemporary art and literary reviews in Europe and in North America with awards from the Journey Prize anthology, the Fiddlehead Review Fiction competition, and a Camões Institute prize to attend the Disquiet International Literary Program in Lisbon. His work includes translations, chronicles, and essays about Portuguese culture. His recent early readers’ book, The Mystery of the Portuguese Waltzes is published by Running the Goat Books in Newfoundland, Canada.

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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