“Tertúlia around the books” will bring together this Friday, November 4, at 18:30 pm, José Carlos Barros, Marco Mackaaij and Paulo Correia, at the Municipal Library of Silves.
“Station”, “Breakfast with Billy” and “Ornithology” are the central works of this gathering, which will bring these three authors together around their poetry.
The initiative is free entry.
About the authors:
Marco Mackaaij was born in the Netherlands in 1970 and has lived in Portugal since 1995. He is a professor of mathematics at the University of Algarve and writes poetry in Portuguese. Before Breakfast with Billy, he published two books of poetry, E se não fora (2015) and Em Segundo Língua (2018), and a plaque, Perdidos e Achados (2017), at CanalSonora. He has poems of his own in Portuguese literary magazines and anthologies and has translated poems by several Portuguese poets for Dutch literary magazines.
Paulo Correia was born in Cova da Piedade, in 1963. He edited, among other works, Poesia inflable (fifty floats and a pause in inflation), author's edition, 2012, and Poesia inflatable 2, author's edition, 2018, under the pseudonym Paulo da Ponte and with the participation of the photographer Margarida Araújo.
He participated in the poetic collection O Wished – Robot Bimby (Companhia das Ilhas, 2015) and in the fanzine NAU (several issues, Caldas da Rainha). He founded the literary magazine Garanta (2017), having participated in issues 0 and 1. He writes regularly for Jornal de Monchique. He debuts at On y va with the poetry book Ornitologia.
José Carlos Barros was born in Boticas, 1963, graduated in Landscape Architecture from the University of Évora and lives in the Algarve, in Vila Nova de Cacela. His professional activity has been carried out in the fields of spatial planning and nature conservation. He was director of the Ria Formosa Natural Park. He is the author, among others, of the poetry books Uma Abstração Inútil, Todos os Náufragos, Theory of Oblivion, Pequenas Depressões (with Otília Monteiro Fernandes) and As Leis do Povoamento (also edited in Spanish).
With Sete Epígonos de Tebas, he won the National Poetry Prize Sebastião da Gama 2009. In 2003, he made his prose debut with The Day in Which the Sea Disappeared. He also won several literary prizes (most notably the National Poetry Prize Sebastião da Gama, which was awarded to him twice) and his poetic texts are published in several countries. O Prazer e o Tédio was his first novel, followed by Um Amigo Para o Verão (Casa das Letras, 2013), with which he was a finalist for the LeYa Prize in 2012.
“As Invisible People”, the writer's third novel won the most recent edition of the LeYa Prize, in 2021. His most recent books (poetry) are the following: O Uso dos Venenos, ed. Dead Language (2nd edition, 2018), A Educação das Crianças, ed. Do Lado Esquerdo Editora, 2020, Estação – Os Poemas< do DN Jovem, 1984-1989, ed. On y Va, 2020, and Penelope Writes to Ulisses, Edições Caixa Alta, 2021.
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