What To Do When Your Column Cracks (and other thoughts on restoration)
A tour of the University of Coimbra focusing on the restoration that made the 500-year-old university a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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A Museum for the World to See
An important new museum that explores Portugal’s history of dictatorship and resistance, increasingly relevant with the rise of the far right elsewhere.
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A Book Fair!
My day at the 86th Lisbon Book Fair, where I checked out Portugal’s publishers and bought more books than I can carry home.
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Meeting the Illustrators
I meet all three illustrators of books I’ve translated at the opening of an exhibit of works by the Brazilian-Portuguese artist Yara Kono.
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A Moving Target: Historical Research and Gentrification
A walking tour through the rapidly gentrifying neighborhood where my main character lived 50 years ago.
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Returning to Portugal and Seeing the Changes
Thoughts on returning to Portugal, seeing the changes, and researching a historical novel that takes place there in 1966.
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Winner, Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature, 2023!
