Inner Snow
Author: Alberto Pereira
Born in Lisbon. Graduated in Nursing. Postgraduate in Forensics. Diploma in Clinical Hypnosis. He is a member of the Portuguese PEN Club. He has published the following books: O áspero hálito do amanhã (2008); Amanhecem nas rugas precipícios (2011); Poemas com Alzheimer (2013); O Deus que matava poemas (2015); Biografia das primeiras coisas (2016); Viagem à demência dos pássaros (2017, Portugal/ 2022, Brasil); Bairro de Lata (2017, Brasil); Como num naufrágio interior morremos (2019, Portugal/ Brasil); Neve interior (2021); Ecocardiodrama (2022) and Aforismos a 600 anos-luz (2022) – the verses were transformed into binary code and into radio waves, were sent by a robotic arm from Punta Arenas in Chile to the Coal Sack Nebula, located in the Southern Hemisphere, 600 light-years from Earth, as part of the “Universal Poem” project, where it will arrive in 2622. He has participated in collections of short stories and poetry. His work has been translated into German, Chinese, French, Greek, English, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Swedish, and Turkish. He has been published in Bangladesh, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Spain, France, India, Mexico, Peru, and Switzerland. He has awarded several prizes, including Literary Prize for Short Story (2011); Agostinho Gomes Literary Prize (2013); Manuel António Pina Literary Prize – National Press Museum (2013) and Honorable Mention (2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2020); Honorable Mention in the Glória de Sant’Anna International Poetry Prize (2018 and 2020), respectively with the books, Viagem à demência dos pássaros and Como num naufrágio interior morremos; Honorable Mention in the International Natália Correia Poetry Prize (2021) with the book Ecocardiodrama; Winner of the Cesar Vallejo International Prize for Literary Excellence (2021) – Unión Hispanomundial de Escritores; Clarice Lispector Literature Prize (2022) with the book Neve Interior; Ulysses Literary Prize (2023).
Tradução: Diniz Borges
ISBN: 9789897354946