O Amor dos Homens Avulsos by Victor Heringer

Her work draws on African women’s experiences, at home and in the diaspora, and explores issues of home, Black womanhood, African women’s struggles, and triumphs over experiences of patriarchal repression, racism, colonialism and global exploitation. He is the founder of The Hastings Writers Workshop.Įthel Maqeda is a Zimbabwean British writer and theatre facilitator who foregrounds unheard narratives. He won the 2022 Peirene Stevns Translation Prize, and his translation of O amor dos homens avulsos by Victor Heringer will be published next year. A writer and translator from Northern Ireland, his own short fiction has appeared in a number of literary journals and been shortlisted for the Bath, Wasafiri, Fish and Seán Ó Faoláin prizes. This event is chaired by Short Fiction editor James Young.

The journal has previously published work by writers including Helen Oyeyemi, Kit de Waal and Marina Warner, and the Short Fiction/University of Essex International Short Story Prize attracts hundreds of entries from around the world each year. Each story is accompanied by an original, commissioned illustration. Launched in 2006, the journal publishes short stories from around the world by both new and established authors. The writer recorded a little bit of everything: daily life, literary references, childhood in Rio de Janeiro, moving to São Paulo, new and old friendships, second-hand bookstores, travel, politics, the news and a Brazil in ebullition.The writers read and perform their works of short fiction over a tasting of snacks and sweets for audiences to enjoy in an event in collaboration with Short Fiction literary journal. Vida desinteressante brings together texts published in an online magazine between 20.

The image of a clown head with open mouth chosen for the pattern works as a perfect match for this nonsense family. They speak the opposite of what they mean or repeat the same sentences until they have another meaning. Their members communicate with jokes, tirades, mocking dialogues. Glória tells the story of an idiosyncratic humorous family.

The publisher liked the graphic project and it was adopted for the author’s new releases. The toys of the image acting as armed enemies for a duel, however, leave clues about the past which haunts the narrator. It seeks to express the ironic and soft tone of the text. The kitsch pattern created for the cover looks happy and harmless. The boy became his first love and the relationship was tragically interrupted in a episode of aggression. The protagonist of o amor dos homens avulsos narrates derisively his youth in an imaginary suburb of Rio de Janeiro in the late 1970s, when a boy sponsored by his father came to live in his house.

O Amor dos Homens Avulsos by Victor Heringer