PHOTOS: LISBON LAUNCH OF ‘IN DIALOGUE WITH SARAMAGO’, WITH THE AUTHOR – 13 Nov 06

13 November 2006 saw the highly successful Portuguese launch of the collective volume

IN DIALOGUE WITH SARAMAGO, at which José

Saramago himself was present. The launch was previewed

on this blog on 18 October 2006; for details of the book,

see entries for 26 July and 25 April 2006, and for an account of the British launch in Manchester,

see 30 May entry.

The Portuguese event took place at the FLAD (Luso-American Development Foundation), 21 rua do
Sacramento à Lapa, Lisbon. The main introductory speech was by Dr Ana Paula Arnaut
of the University of Coimbra. Saramago’s own speech evoked, inter alia, his newly

published autobiographical volume As Pequenas Memórias.

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As a contributor to IN DIALOGUE WITH SARAMAGO, it was a great

pleasure and privilege for me to attend this event.

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Details of book:

 

“IN DIALOGUE WITH SARAMAGO: ESSAYS IN COMPARATIVE LITERATURE”,
eds. Mark Sabine and Adriana Alves de Paula Martins (Manchester, England: University of
Manchester Press, Manchester Spanish and Portuguese Studies, 2006).
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See:
www.llc.manchester.ac.uk/Research/Projects/InDialoguewithSaramagoEssa
ysincomparativeliterature/
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ISBN:
0-9539968-8-3

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Added are four photos from the book signing part of the event, featuring variously:

Dr Ana Paula Arnaut (University of Coimbra), Agostinho Pereira (Viana do Castelo) and myself.
Photos are, as appropriate, either by myself or by Agostinho (to whom grateful thanks).