In the May 2022 edition of the FLAD Translation Program, seven works were selected, whose translation into Portuguese will be supported by FLAD. Among them are Abraham Lincoln’s Speeches, My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Ottessa Moshfegh’s New York Times bestseller and Daniel Keyes’ critical acclaimed Flowers for Algernon.
FLAD held in May the 4th edition of its program of translations of literary works. The goal is to support national publishers, helping them to have acess to works by American authors who would not otherwise reach Portuguese bookstores, and promote Portuguese authors in the United States.
In this edition, seven works were chosen, proposed by several publishers, whose translation to Portuguese will now be supported by FLAD.
This is a regular contest, which takes place twice a year. The next edition takes place between October 1st and October 31st 2022.
Selected works:
Book: Flowers for Algernon
Author: Daniel Keyes
Publisher: Relógio D’Água Editores
Synopsis: Charlie Gordon, born with an exceptionally low IQ, was chosen as the perfect candidate for an experimental surgery in which researchers hope to increase his intelligence – a procedure that was once very successful when tested on a laboratory rat called Algernon. As the treatment takes effect, Charlie’s intelligence expands to that of the doctors who designed his metamorphosis. The experience seems to be an important scientific advance, until Algernon, suddenly, suffers complications.
Book: Black no More
Author: George S. Schuyler
Publisher: Edições Tinta-da-China
Synopsis: The extraordinary story of a mysterious process that can turn black skin into white skin in the 1930s, Black No More is a pioneering and caustic work of black speculative fiction by one of the great authors of the Harlem Renaissance.
Book: My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Author: Ottessa Moshfegh
Publisher: Relógio D’Água Editores
Synopsis: Apparently, the narrator has everything you could want in life. She is young, thin, beautiful, recently graduated from Columbia University and lives in an apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side paid, like everything else, from her inheritance. However, there is a void in her life and she has the perfect solution: she will spend a year under sedation to relax and thus hide from the world.
Book: Unsettled
Author: Steven E. Koonin
Publisher: Guerra e Paz, Editores, Lda.
Synopsis: From Steven Koonin, a U.S. scientific policy leader and former scientific advisor to the Obama Administration, Unsettled is a close and apolitical exploration of the many misconceptions and shortcomings in conventional presentation of climate science – which is far less black and white than many people realize.
Book: The Man Who Lived Underground
Author: Richard Wright
Publisher: Antígona – Editores Refractários
Synopsis: Fred Daniels, a black man, is detained by police after a double murder and tortured until he confesses to a crime he did not commit. After signing a confession, he escapes custody and escapes into the city’s sewer system.
Book: The Argonauts
Author: Maggie Nelson
Publisher: Orfeu Negro Unipessoal Lda.
Synopsis: Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts is a genre memoir, a work of “self-theory” that offers a fresh, fierce and timely thought about desire, identity and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. The work revolves around the author’s relationship with artist Harry Dodge. This story, which includes the account of this passion, as well as the author’s journey to and through a pregnancy, is an intimate portrait of the complexities and joys of creating a family (queer).
Book: Abraham Lincoln Speeches
Publisher: Guerra e Paz, Editores, Lda.
Synopsis: This work is committed to bringing together some of the most emblematic discourses of what was one of the most consensual personalities in American politics. Abraham Lincoln served as president of the United States from 1861 to 1865 until his assassination. He was responsible for preserving the territorial integrity of the country during the Civil War and abolishing slavery.
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