LISBON, Portugal – LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Jose Saramago, who became the first Portuguese-language winner of the Nobel Literature prize although his popularity at home was dampened by his unflinching ...

Award-winning Portuguese-American author Millicent Borges Accardi believes that her becoming a poet was probably inevitable since she is named after Millicent Gifford Rogers, the ‘Muse of Poetry’ whom ...

BOSTON – On Friday, Nov. 22, the Coordination of Portuguese Language Programs and Education Affairs in the U.S. and the Portuguese Language Center Camões at UMass Boston will bring together three ...

As Brazil continues the process of streamlining its primary and middle school curriculum, one issue has grabbed the attention of educators and news outlets: whether Brazilian students should be forced ...

What are the parallels between literature produced in São Paulo in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and the work of writers and poets in the distant state of Goa, in India? By publishing texts ...

NEW YORK - Stênio Gardel’s debut novel ‘A Palavra Que Resta’ has won the prestigious National Book Award for Translated Literature, an unprecedented feat in Portuguese-language literature. A native of ...

You're probably well-acquainted with the idea of the food van. The more sartorially minded may have even visited a fashion truck. Now, it's translated into literature aimed at tourists. In June 2013, ...

The remains of Eça de Queiroz, author of major works of Portuguese literature such as "Os Maias" or "O Crime do Padre Amaro", will now remain in the National Pantheon, 125 years after his death. The ...

In 1951, Alfred Lewis published "Home Is an Island," an autobiographical coming-of-age novel about growing up in the Azores with the constant lure of America as the Promised Land. This fictional work, ...

Jose Saramago, the first Portuguese writer awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, died at his home in the Canary Islands on Friday. He was honored in his homeland as a major cultural figure, but as a ...