Ana Luísa Amaral published her first volume of poetry in 1990 and has since published more than twenty volumes (among poetry, fiction, theatre and children’s books). Translated into several languages, her work has brought her many prizes in Portugal and abroad. She is also a translator, notably of the poetry of John Updike, Emily Dickinson and William Shakespeare. Margaret Jull Costa has been a translator for more than thirty years, translating such novelists as Javier Marías, José Saramago, Eça de Queiroz and Benito Pérez Galdós, and, more recently, the poets Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen and Ana Luísa Amaral.A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, in 2014, she was awarded an OBE for services to literature. Paulo de Medeiros is Professor of Modern and Contemporary World Literatures at the University of Warwick.

• From Minha Senhora De Quê (1990) Terra De Ninguém/No Man’s Land Intertextualidades/Intertextualities Passado/Past Testamento/Testament Auto-Da-Fé/Auto-Da-Fé Minha Senhora De Quê/Mistress Of What Coisas Gramaticais E Outras/Grammar And Other Matters Músicas/Tunes Metamorfoses/Metamorphoses A Verdade Histórica/The Historical TruthFrom Coisas De Partir (1993) Quarto-Crescente/Crescent Moon Nem Tágides Nem Musas/No Nymphs Or Muses O Grande Truque/The Big Trick Dilemas/Dilemmas Lugares Comuns/Common Places Coisas de Partir/Breakable Things Kamasutras/KamasutrasFrom Às Vezes O Paraíso (1998) O Excesso Mais Perfeito/The Most Perfect Excess O Mundo A Meio/The World Cut In Two Babel/Babel Salomé Após O Crime/Salome After The Crime Visitações, Ou Poema Que Se Diz Manso/Visitations, Or A Supposedly Gentle PoemFrom: Imagias (2001) Um Pouco Só De Goya: Carta A Minha Filha/Just a Little Bit of Goya: Letter to My Daughter Poema Que Se Devia/A Should-Be Poem Relatividades/Relativities Silogismos/Syllogisms Imagens E Memórias Do Que Não/Images And Memories Of What Wasn’tFrom: A Arte De Ser Tigre (2003) Arte Primeira/First Art Do Espanto/About Amazement Arte Segunda/Second Art Do Fingimento/About Pretence Primeira Metamorfose/First Metamorphosis Da Coragem/About Courage Segunda Metamorfose/Second Metamorphosis Terceira Metamorfose/Third Metamorphosis Da Memória/About Memory Do Amor/About Love Arte Terceira/Third Art Quarta Metamorfose/Fourth Metamorphosis Arte Quarta/Fourth Art Arte Quinta/Fifth Art Arte Final/Final Art A Mais Perfeita Imagem/The Most Perfect ImageFrom A Génese Do Amor (2005) Topografias Em (Quase) Dicionário/Topographies (Almost) As DictionaryFrom Entre Dois Rios E Outras Noites (2007) As Mais Epifanias/The Greatest Epiphanies Que Escada De Jacob?/Where – That Jacob’s Ladder? Copérnico, Chopin, Boeing 747/Copernicus, Chopin, Boeing 747From: Se Fosse Um Intervalo (2009) Ecos/Echos Irei Agora Carregar O Tempo/I Will Go Now And Load Up TimeFrom: Vozes (2011) A Cerimónia/The Ceremony Galileu, A Sua Torre E Outras Rotações/Galileo, His Tower And Other OrbitsFrom: Escuro (2014) Das Mais Puras Memórias: Ou De Lumes/About The Purest Memories: Or About Light Entre Mitos: Ou Parábola/Between Myths – Or Parabola Europa (Poema 1)/Europe (Poem 1) Europa (Poema 2)/Europe (Poem 2)From: E Todavia (2015) Pequena Ode, Em Anotação Quase Biográfica/Mini-Ode, In The Form Of A Semi-Biographical Note Electricidade/Electricity Não Sei Como Dizer, E Todavia,/I Don’t Know How To Say It, And Yet, Incomparáveis Receitas/Incomparable Recipes O Dia De Se Estar/A Day For Just Being Crescimento/Growth Modulações E Cantos/Modulations And Songs Pequeno Documento/Small DocumentUnpublished Matar É Fácil/Murder Is Easy

Ana Luísa Amaral published her first volume of poetry in 1990 and has since published more than twenty volumes (among poetry, fiction, theatre and children’s books). Translated into several languages, her work has brought her many prizes in Portugal and abroad. She is also a translator, notably of the poetry of John Updike, Emily Dickinson and William Shakespeare. Margaret Jull Costa has been a translator for more than thirty years, translating such novelists as Javier Marías, José Saramago, Eça de Queiroz and Benito Pérez Galdós, and, more recently, the poets Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen and Ana Luísa Amaral.A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, in 2014, she was awarded an OBE for services to literature. Paulo de Medeiros is Professor of Modern and Contemporary World Literatures at the University of Warwick.

• From Minha Senhora De Quê (1990) Terra De Ninguém/No Man’s Land Intertextualidades/Intertextualities Passado/Past Testamento/Testament Auto-Da-Fé/Auto-Da-Fé Minha Senhora De Quê/Mistress Of What Coisas Gramaticais E Outras/Grammar And Other Matters Músicas/Tunes Metamorfoses/Metamorphoses A Verdade Histórica/The Historical TruthFrom Coisas De Partir (1993) Quarto-Crescente/Crescent Moon Nem Tágides Nem Musas/No Nymphs Or Muses O Grande Truque/The Big Trick Dilemas/Dilemmas Lugares Comuns/Common Places Coisas de Partir/Breakable Things Kamasutras/KamasutrasFrom Às Vezes O Paraíso (1998) O Excesso Mais Perfeito/The Most Perfect Excess O Mundo A Meio/The World Cut In Two Babel/Babel Salomé Após O Crime/Salome After The Crime Visitações, Ou Poema Que Se Diz Manso/Visitations, Or A Supposedly Gentle PoemFrom: Imagias (2001) Um Pouco Só De Goya: Carta A Minha Filha/Just a Little Bit of Goya: Letter to My Daughter Poema Que Se Devia/A Should-Be Poem Relatividades/Relativities Silogismos/Syllogisms Imagens E Memórias Do Que Não/Images And Memories Of What Wasn’tFrom: A Arte De Ser Tigre (2003) Arte Primeira/First Art Do Espanto/About Amazement Arte Segunda/Second Art Do Fingimento/About Pretence Primeira Metamorfose/First Metamorphosis Da Coragem/About Courage Segunda Metamorfose/Second Metamorphosis Terceira Metamorfose/Third Metamorphosis Da Memória/About Memory Do Amor/About Love Arte Terceira/Third Art Quarta Metamorfose/Fourth Metamorphosis Arte Quarta/Fourth Art Arte Quinta/Fifth Art Arte Final/Final Art A Mais Perfeita Imagem/The Most Perfect ImageFrom A Génese Do Amor (2005) Topografias Em (Quase) Dicionário/Topographies (Almost) As DictionaryFrom Entre Dois Rios E Outras Noites (2007) As Mais Epifanias/The Greatest Epiphanies Que Escada De Jacob?/Where – That Jacob’s Ladder? Copérnico, Chopin, Boeing 747/Copernicus, Chopin, Boeing 747From: Se Fosse Um Intervalo (2009) Ecos/Echos Irei Agora Carregar O Tempo/I Will Go Now And Load Up TimeFrom: Vozes (2011) A Cerimónia/The Ceremony Galileu, A Sua Torre E Outras Rotações/Galileo, His Tower And Other OrbitsFrom: Escuro (2014) Das Mais Puras Memórias: Ou De Lumes/About The Purest Memories: Or About Light Entre Mitos: Ou Parábola/Between Myths – Or Parabola Europa (Poema 1)/Europe (Poem 1) Europa (Poema 2)/Europe (Poem 2)From: E Todavia (2015) Pequena Ode, Em Anotação Quase Biográfica/Mini-Ode, In The Form Of A Semi-Biographical Note Electricidade/Electricity Não Sei Como Dizer, E Todavia,/I Don’t Know How To Say It, And Yet, Incomparáveis Receitas/Incomparable Recipes O Dia De Se Estar/A Day For Just Being Crescimento/Growth Modulações E Cantos/Modulations And Songs Pequeno Documento/Small DocumentUnpublished Matar É Fácil/Murder Is Easy