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Portuguese in Translation Book Club

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We're an online book club dedicated to Portuguese-language literature in English translation, meeting bi-monthly on Zoom with the presence of the author and translator.

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Our first event of the year will be held on Wednesday, the 18th of March 2026 at 19h (GMT), to discuss Macunaíma by Brazilian Mário de Andrade, alongside translator Katrina Dodson. Registration is now open: www.pintbookclub.com/.../pint-boo...

04.02.2026 15:37 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Our line-up for 2026: Macunaíma (Mário de Andrade), The Tokyo Suite (Giovana Madalosso), A Girl is Lost in Her Century Looking for Her Father (Gonçalo M. Tavares), Pandora (Ana Paula Pacheco) and Three Stories of Forgetting (Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida).
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04.02.2026 15:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Registration is now open for our 20th online event happening on Wednesday, 19th of November 2025 at 7pm (GMT). Portuguese author Lídia Jorge alongside translators Margaret Jull Costa and Annie McDermott will join us to discuss The Wind Whistling in the Cranes: www.pintbookclub.com/event-detail...

18.10.2025 17:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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Registration is now open for our 19th online event to discuss Whites Can Dance Too alongside author Kalaf Epalanga and translator Daniel Hahn on the 17th of September 2025.

This will be a bilingual event (English and Portuguese). Registration is free:

www.pintbookclub.com/event-detail...

27.08.2025 19:17 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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You can now watch all the video-clips from PinT Book Club 17th session where we discussed What is Mine alongside Brazilian author José Henrique Bortoluci and translator Rahul Bery.
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27.05.2025 16:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Discover a vibrant collection of literature from a global linguistic community that stretches across four continents! Join PinT, an exciting new online book club that explores translated works from the diverse Portuguese-speaking world. To find our more, go to our website:
www.pintbookclub.com

05.04.2025 16:58 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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PinT Book Club 16th session | PinT Book Club Online Book Club focusing on translated fiction from Portuguese-language countries. Join us to discuss THE POSTHUMOUS MEMOIRS OF BRÁS CUBAS by Brazilian author Machado de Assis.

Sign-up is now open for our 16th session! On Wednesday the 12th of March 2025 (7pm GMT) we shall be discussing THE POSTHUMOUS MEMOIRS OF BRÁS CUBAS by legendary Brazilian author Machado de Assis alongside translator Flora Thomsom DeVeaux. Register here: www.pintbookclub.com/event-detail...

28.02.2025 16:24 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas (Machado de Assis, tr. Flora Thomson DeVeaux, Penguin Books)

The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas (Machado de Assis, tr. Flora Thomson DeVeaux, Penguin Books)

"My idea was fixed, fixed like ... I can't think of anything fixed enough in this world: maybe the moon, maybe the pyramids of Egypt, maybe the dead German Diet."
THE POSTHUMOUS MEMOIRS OF BRÁS CUBAS by Brazilian Machado de Assis is our next book in line: www.penguin.co.uk/.../the.../9...

26.02.2025 14:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Why not try a new kind of PinT this year – one that tastes of Portuguese-language literature in English translation?! At PinT Book Club we host online sessions every 2 months where we discuss interesting texts from all over the Portuguese-speaking world: www.pintbookclub.com

18.02.2025 13:40 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0