The Manuel Teixeira Gomes Municipal Library, in Portimão, will invite eight writers to four paired conversations in which each one presents a book from the other, sharing, in Jardim 1º de Dezembro, readings with each other and with the public. The initiative will take place on June 25th, July 23rd and August 13th and 20th, always at 18pm.
«With this initiative, which takes place in the particularly stimulating environment of a garden and is entitled “Blue Summer”, a title inspired by the book “Agosto Azul” by Manuel Teixeira Gomes, the Municipality of Portimão, through the Municipal Library, aims to color with a little the Portimonense summer is more blue, through the books and the words of those who write them, giving an optimistic encouragement to Portuguese writers who, in the context of the pandemic, cannot have direct contact with readers», emphasizes the municipality.
Portimão Chamber says that this is also “an encouragement for the city's public to meet, for the first time, a group of essential writers of Portuguese literature, belonging to various generations, and to get to know eight books written or completed with sensitivity acquired in times of pandemic'.
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The program starts on the 25th of June, with a conversation between João de Melo (“Vozes and Sombras Book”) and João Pinto Coelho (“A Time to Pretend”), «crossing words about his last two novels where voices converge and shadows walking on the razor's edge of history that it is important not to forget».
This is followed, on the 23rd of July, by Sandro William Junqueira (“The Bleeding Family”, the novel that brings the author to a cellar lost in the middle of the mountains where one can hear “hurts and many fires of life”) and Ondjaki (“ O Livro do Deslembramento” which tells us about a Luanda lived by a child as a story of enchantment, but where the terrible threat of war hovers).
On August 13, Lídia Jorge (“In Todos os Sentidos”, an incursion into the chronicle of daily life with the author's usual sensitivity and ethics) will have a conversation with Afonso Cruz (“O Vício dos Livros”, collection of stories historical and literary curiosities, reflections and personal memories to addict us to books).
Finally, on August 20 the protagonists will be Nuno Júdice (“Return to a Countryside Scenery”, poetry book finished in the transition from the epidemic to the pandemic, in which the author reflects on the transformations of the times we live in) and Luís Filipe Castro Mendes (“Back”, where the author returns like Ulysses to an Ithaca from where he looks at a world that has drifted).
In each of the four meetings of this cycle of literary conversations there will be a mini book fair, starting at 17:30 pm, dedicated exclusively to the authors present.
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