Isabela Figueiredo
Isabela Figueiredo (Lourenço Marques, January 1, 1963), is a Portuguese journalist, teacher, and writer.[1]
Biography
[edit]Isabela Figueiredo was born in Lourenço Marques, Mozambique, and went to Portugal in 1975 as a returnee.[2] She went to live with her grandmother, being separated from her parents, who stayed in Mozambique, for 10 years. Her father was an electrician.[3]
Figueiredo has a degree in Lusophone Languages and Literatures from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa and a specialization in Gender studies from Universidade Aberta de Lisboa. She published her first texts in 1983 in DN Jovem, a now defunct supplement of Diário de Notícias.[4]
In 1988, she won her first prize at the Mostra Portuguesa de Artes e Ideias with a work published under the name Isabel Almeida Santos: Conto é Como Quem Diz . The author worked as a journalist at Diário de Notícias between 1989 and 1994 and also as a high school teacher in Lisbon's South Bank between 1985 and 2014.[5]
In 2009, she published the autobiographical work Caderno de Memórias Coloniais which was elected in 2010 as one of the most relevant works of the decade by the writer Maria da Conceição Caleiro and the essayist Gustavo Rubim in the special published by the culture magazine Ípsilon[6] (arts supplement of the newspaper Público(Portugal) ).[7][8]
Also in 2010, she received the award for best book of the year with Caderno de Memórias Coloniais. Her novel A Gorda (2016) was considered one of the ten best books of 2016 by the online magazine Espalha-Factos and won the Urbano Tavares Rodrigues Literary Award 2017.[9][10]
Works
[edit]- 2009 – Caderno de Memórias Coloniais, Angelus Novus
- 2016 – A Gorda, Editorial Caminho
- 2022 – Um Cão no Meio do Caminho, Editorial Caminho
Prizes
[edit]- 1988 – Award from Mostra Portuguesa de Artes e Ideias[2]
- 2010 – Monster of the Year Award for Best Book, by Angelus Novus[11][12]
- 2017 – Urbano Tavares Rodrigues Literary Prize[13][14]
- 2021 – Nomination for the Femina Foreign Prize[15]
Translations
[edit]United States
[edit]- "Notebook of Colonial Memories" (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 2015; Translated by Anna M. Klobucka and Phillip Rothwell)[16]
References
[edit]- ^ Gould, Isabel Ferreira. "A Daughter’s Unsettling Auto/Biography of Colonialism and Uprooting: A Conversation with Isabela Figueiredo.” ellipsis 8 (2010):133-45. Web.
- ^ a b "Isabela Figueiredo" (in Portuguese). Wook. Retrieved 19 March 2018.
- ^ Revista Sábado (31 de Janeiro de 2019). O impacto que os retornados tiveram no País.
- ^ "Figueiredo, Isabela. Afterword. Notebook of Colonial Memories. Translated by Anna Klobucka and Phillip Rothwell, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 2015" (PDF). 2015. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
- ^ "Entrevista com Isabela Figueiredo". Diário de Notícias. 17 August 2018. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
- ^ "Ípsilon". PÚBLICO (in Portuguese). 2023-06-08. Retrieved 2023-06-08.
- ^ Gould, Isabel Ferreira. "A Daughter's Unsettling Auto/Biography of Colonialism and Uprooting: A Conversation with Isabela Figueiredo.” ellipsis 8 (2010): 133–45. Web. https://www.academia.edu/37402065/A_Daughters_Unsettling_Auto_Biography_of_Colonialism_and_Uprooting_A_Conversation_with_Isabela_Figueiredo
- ^ "Livros da década". Ípsilon – Suplemento de artes do jornal Público. 6 January 2010. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
- ^ "Isabela Figueiredo vence Prémio Literário Urbano Tavares Rodrigues com "A Gorda"". Diário de Notícias. 4 October 2017. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
- ^ "LIVROS: OS DEZ MELHORES DE 2016". Espalha Factos. 22 December 2016. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
- ^ "Ganhooou! Isabela é "Monstro do Ano"!". Angelus Novus (in European Portuguese). 2010-03-05. Retrieved 2021-09-14.
- ^ "Ganhooou! Isabela é "Monstro do Ano"!". Angelus Novus. March 2010. Retrieved 1 December 2018.
- ^ "Isabela Figueiredo vence Prémio Literário Urbano Tavares Rodrigues com "A Gorda"" (in Portuguese). Agência Lusa. 4 October 2017. Archived from the original on 20 March 2018. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
- ^ "Isabela Figueiredo vence Prémio Literário Urbano Tavares Rodrigues com "A Gorda"". www.dn.pt (in Portuguese). 4 October 2017. Retrieved 2021-09-14.
- ^ "Isabela Figueiredo nomeada para Prémio Femina Estrangeiro". Notícias ao Minuto (in Portuguese). 2021-09-13. Retrieved 2021-09-14.
- ^ "Figueiredo, Isabela. Notebook of Colonial Memories. Translated by Anna Klobucka and Phillip Rothwell, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 2015" (PDF). University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
