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Take Six :Six Portuguese Women Writers

Translator: Margaret Jull Costa   Edited by: Margaret Jull Costa   Cover design: Marie Lane   Cover illustration: Paula Rego  

Take Six is a celebration of six remarkable Portuguese women writers: Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Agustina Bessa-Luís, Maria Judite de Carvalho, Hélia Correia, Teolinda Gersão and Lídia Jorge.

They are all past mistresses of the short story form, and their subject matter ranges from finding one’s inner fox to a failed suicide attempt to a grandmother and grandson battling the wind on a beach. Stories and styles are all very different, but what the writers have in common is their ability to take everyday life and look at it afresh, so that even a trip on a ferry or an encounter with a stranger or a child’s attempt to please her father become imbued with mystery and humour and sometimes tragedy. Relatively few women writers are translated into English, and this anthology is an attempt to rectify that imbalance and to introduce readers to some truly captivating tales from Portugal.

RRP: £9.99

No. of pages: 252

Publication date: 09.03.2018

Re-print date: 21.07.2023

ISBN numbers:
Paperback
978 1 910213 69 8
Ebook
978 1 910213 76 6

Rights:
Dedalus World Anthology