Gonçalo M. Tavares: Plague Diary

Gonçalo M. Tavares and Anabela Mota-Ribeiro

Gonçalo M. Tavares: Plague Diary

Gonçalo M. Tavares and Anabela Mota-Ribeiro

1:30pm

Saturday, October 31

45 mins

Gonçalo M. Tavares: Plague Diary

Join the Toronto International Festival of Authors for an afternoon in conversation with one of Portugal’s most esteemed writers, Gonçalo M. Tavares, having won multiple awards for his work. His book, Jerusalem, won him the José Saramago Literary Prize for young writers under 35. His latest work, Plague Diary, is a series of daily journals documenting time spent during the COVID-19 pandemic. This event is presented in Portuguese.

Interviewer: Anabela Mota Ribeiro

Gonçalo M. Tavares: Diário da Peste

Junte-se ao Festival Internacional de Autores de Toronto para uma tarde de conversa com um dos mais conceituados escritores portugueses, Gonçalo M. Tavares, cujo trabalho tem ganho vários prémios. O seu livro, Jerusalém, foi reconhecido com o Prémio Literário José Saramago para jovens escritores com menos de 35 anos. A sua última obra, Diário da Peste, é uma série de registos que documentam o tempo passado durante a pandemia COVID-19. Apresentado em português.

Entrevistadora: Anabela Mota Ribeiro

Gonçalo M. Tavares: Plague Diary

Join the Toronto International Festival of Authors for an afternoon in conversation with one of Portugal’s most esteemed writers, Gonçalo M. Tavares, having won multiple awards for his work. His book, Jerusalem, won him the José Saramago Literary Prize for young writers under 35. His latest work, Plague Diary, is a series of daily journals documenting time spent during the COVID-19 pandemic. This event is presented in Portuguese.

Interviewer: Anabela Mota Ribeiro

Gonçalo M. Tavares: Diário da Peste

Junte-se ao Festival Internacional de Autores de Toronto para uma tarde de conversa com um dos mais conceituados escritores portugueses, Gonçalo M. Tavares, cujo trabalho tem ganho vários prémios. O seu livro, Jerusalém, foi reconhecido com o Prémio Literário José Saramago para jovens escritores com menos de 35 anos. A sua última obra, Diário da Peste, é uma série de registos que documentam o tempo passado durante a pandemia COVID-19. Apresentado em português.

Entrevistadora: Anabela Mota Ribeiro

Featured Authors

Gonçalo M. Tavares
Gonçalo M. Tavares was born in Luanda, Angola. He spent his childhood in in northern Portugal and nowadays teaches Theory of Science at a university in Lisbon. Tavares is one of the most translated and awarded European writers. His unusual books have been published in more than 50 countries. The New Yorker stated, “Gonçalo M. Tavares is a writer who is unlike any you’ve read before. And he has a gift—like Flann O’Brien or Kafka or Beckett—for revealing the ways in which logic can be as faithful a servant of madness as of reason." 

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Anabela Mota-Ribeiro
Anabela Mota-Ribeiro holds a Bachelor’s and a Master’s Degree in Philosophy from Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She was a Visiting Research Fellow at Brown University in 2019. Anabela has five published books, including Paula Rego por Paula Rego, A Flor Amarela - Ímpeto e Melancolia em Machado de Assis and Por Saramago. As a freelance journalist, she has collaborated with several newspapers and created and presented television programmes on RTP. She is also a curator of literary festivals, including Porto Book Fair in 2017, 2018 and 2020, and Folio in 2015 and 2016. Her online archive is available at  www.anabelamotaribeiro.pt.

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1:30pm

Saturday, October 31

45 mins

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