The Porto Editora Group (GPE) today announced 111 new books to be published in the first half of 2024, including Valter Hugo Mãe’s new novel, “Deus na Escuridão”.
In addition to Valter Hugo Mãe, with a novel set on the island of Madeira and dealing with the importance of God and motherhood, which will be published on the 18th, “Geração D”, by Carlos de Matos Gomes, will be published in Portuguese by Porto Editora in April. It “recounts the dilemmas of Portuguese society in the fascinating process that led to the end of a 500-year imperial cycle, the end of Europe’s longest dictatorship and political, economic and social integration into the European Union”, according to the publisher.
Vera dos Reis Valente, Sara de Almeida Leite’s literary pseudonym, is publishing “Amar em caso de emergência” in February, which “tells the story of a 50-year-old woman who finds herself hostage to a failed marriage”, said the GPE.
A new author, José Rodrigues, is publishing “O Quinto Pescador” (The Fifth Fisherman), a novel that tells the story of Francisco, a middle-aged man who decides to leave the city where he has always lived and chooses to live in a hovel at the top of a ravine on an Alentejo beach.
In May, Alberto S. Santos published “Juliana, a Senhora das Índias” (Juliana, the Lady of the Indies), which tells the story of a woman of Portuguese descent who had a very close relationship with the royal family of Moghul in India, namely with the emperor Aurangzeb.
Teolinda Gersão’s “Os Teclados & Três Histórias” is published this month, bringing together the novella “Os teclados” (1999) and the book of short stories “O mensageiro e outras histórias com anjos” (2003).
In April, Assírio & Alvim reissued “Cravo”, by Maria Velho da Costa (1938-2020), a work first published in 1976, which is a collection of 22 texts, including chronicles, poetry, manifestos and essays, written before April 25, 1974.
In the area of poetry, Assírio & Alvim is publishing “Nocturama”, by Luís Quintais, “Ferida Secreta”, by Jorge Gomes Miranda, “Poesias Completas”, by Nuno Guimarães (1942-1975), and reissuing, this month, “Tisanas”, by Ana Hatherly (1929-2015), with an edition and afterword by Ana Marques Gastão.
In May, the same label will publish “Metamorfoses seguidas de Quatro Sonetos a Afrodite Anadiómena”, by Jorge de Sena (1919-1978), “Lições da Miragem”, by Ricardo Gil Soeiro, and “A Telefonista do The Guardian”, by Filipa Leal.
The group will also be marking the 80th anniversary of Livros do Brasil, the label it bought in 2015. The celebration will include the reissue of “The Book of San Michele”, the first title in the “Two Worlds” collection, the autobiographical text by Swedish psychiatrist Axel Munthe (1857-1949).
The imprint’s catalog is expanding with a new title, coming out this week for the first time in Portugal, by French author Annie Ernaux, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2022, “The Shame”, in the “Two Worlds” collection. Another of his titles, “The Empty Closets”, the first book he published in 1974, is due to be published in the spring.
In March, “Dois Mundos” releases “The Woman in the Sand” by Japanese writer Kobo Abe, which director Hiroshi Teshigahara adapted for the screen in 1964.
The label is also planning to reissue “one of the world’s first ‘ecological’ novels”, “Nils Holgersson’s Marvelous Journey through Sweden”, by Selma Lagerlö, and “Death in Summer”, by Yukio Mishima.
In May, “Stone and Shadow” by Burhan Sönmez, an Anglo-Turkish author who currently chairs PEN International, is published.
The “Contemporary” collection will feature “The Gospel of the New World” by Maryse Condé, an 86-year-old French-language writer from the island of Guadeloupe, who pays homage to José Saramago with this book.
The revised and expanded “Alexandre O’Neill: A Literary Biography” by Maria Antónia Oliveira will be published in March.
Maria Antónia Oliveira returns to the poet of “Nós Por Cá Todos Bem”, about whom she published, in 1992, “A Tristeza Contentinha de Alexandre O’Neill” and, in 2007, “Alexandre O’Neill: uma biografia literária”, now revised and expanded.