Teolinda Gersão nasceu em Coimbra, estudou Germanística, Romanística e Anglística nas Universidades de Coimbra, Tübingen e Berlim, foi Leitora de Português na Universidade Técnica de Berlim, assistente na Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa e depois de provas académicas professora catedrática da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, onde ensinou Literatura Alemã e Literatura Comparada.
Além da permanência de três anos na Alemanha viveu dois anos em São Paulo, Brasil, e conheceu Moçambique, onde decorre o romance de A Árvore das Palavras.
Está traduzida em 20 países (Espanha, França, Alemanha, Holanda, Itália, Inglaterra, República Checa, Croácia, Roménia, Bulgária, Eslováquia, Turquia, Marrocos, Canadá, Estados Unidos, Brasil, México, Colômbia, China, Japão).
Autora sobretudo de romances, publicou até agora duas novelas (Os Teclados e Os Anjos) e quatro colectâneas de contos (Histórias de Ver e Andar,A Mulher que Prendeu a Chuva, Prantos, Amores e Outros Desvarios e Atrás da Porta e Outras Histórias).
Quatro dos seus textos foram adaptados ao teatro e encenados em Portugal, Alemanha e Roménia (Os Teclados, por Jorge Listopad, no CCB, Os Anjos, por João Brit
Teolinda Gersão
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Teolinda Gersão is author of 19 books, translated in 20 countries. Some of her works have been adapted to theatre and cinema. She received some of the most important Portuguese literary awards and was writer-in-residence at the University of California, Barkeley. English translations: The Word Tree (novel) Dedalus Books, UK; City of Ulysses (novel) Dalkey Archive, USA; O Regresso de Júlia Mann a Paraty is being translated in the USA by Elizabeth Lowe; Short stories in: Two Lines, The Common, The Threepenny Review, A Public Space, Harden Ferry´s Review. Anthologies: New Sudden Fiction, Best short stories from America and beyond, W.W. Norton, ; Take Six, (Six Portuguese Women Writers), edited by Margaret Jull Costa, Dedalus Books, UK, ; Best European Fiction, edited by Alex Andriesse, Dalkey Archive Press, USA ; Lisbon Stories, edited by Helen Constantine and Amanda Hopkinson, Oxford University Press, ; Best small fiction , (Sonderpress. First published in The Common). In she received the DST Literature Grand Prize, one of the most important in Portugal.
Review Excerpts
THE WORD TREE
Found in Translation &#; The Word Tree, translated by Margaret Jull Costa
This is the only one of Teolinda Gersão´s 12 novels available in English, and it has just been chosen as the best novel translated from Portuguese in the last three years.
You can see why: it´s as acute about childhood as it is about adults, and the writing is as sensuous as it is sad.
Amélia has left Portugal for pre-independence Mozambique, escaping her family and a failed relationship. She answered a newspaper advert from a man who “seeks a decent young woman aged 25 max”. He promised her beaches with pale sand. She got a lonely life as a dressmaker instead. The section of the novel dedicated to her is the most moving in the book, a series of pin-sharp revelations of envy and isolation. She wants to join the elite, and buys perfume she can´t afford. In the sizzling African heat, she dreams of owning fur coats to give the world she left behind a slap in the face. As a portrait of a desperate colonial it´s worthy of l.
But Gersão does youthful exuberance as well as she does middle-aged desolation. Amélia´s daughter Gita experiences things, as children do, in a senso
Gersão, Teolinda (–)
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