Paulo da Costa (writer)
# 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, 2015

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

## Awards

* 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 (Scotland)
* 1999 CBC Alberta Anthology – Short Story

Portuguese

* 2003 ProVerbo . Prémio – Poesia (Poetry Prize – Portuguese)
* 2003 ProVerbo . Prémio – Conto (Short-Story Prize – Portuguese)
