Paulo da Costa (writer)

Paulo da Costa, born in Angola and raised in Portugal, is a bilingual Canadian-Portuguese author, editor and translator living in Canada.

Fiction

 * Scent of a Lie - 2002 - Caribbean & Canada Commonwealth Writers Prize Best First Book 2003, 2002 W.O. Mitchell City of Calgary Book Prize, 2001 Cannongate Prize - Scotland.
 * O Perfume da Mentira - Livros Pé d'Orelha, 2012
 * The Green and Purple Skin of The World - Freehand Books, 2013
 * The Midwife of Torment & Other Stories, 55 sudden fictions – Guernica Editions, 2017

Non-Fiction

 * Beyond Bullfights and Ice Hockey, Essays on Identity, Language and Writing Culture, Boavista Press, Paperback : 97809960511322015, 208 pages, April 2015
 * Trust the Bluer Skies : Meditations on Fatherhood,, University of Regina Press, Paperback : 9780889779921, 256 pages, March 2024

Poetry

 * Notas-de-rodapé - Portuguese poems – Livros Pé d'Orelha, 2005

Literary translation

 * The Cartography of Being – Translated poems of Nuno Júdice 1970-2005 LPO 2012

Audio chapbooks

 * Notas-de-rodapé - Portuguese poems – Livros Pé d'Orelha 2005
 * Midwife of Torment & Other Stories - Livros Pé d'Orelha 2005
 * Twenty Poems – English Poems - Livros Pé d'Orelha – 2006
 * XX poemas - Portuguese poems - Livros Pé d'Orelha - 2006
 * The Book of Catalogues – Livros Pé d'Orelha - 2010

Awards

 * 2024 James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction
 * 2023 James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction
 * 2020 James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction
 * 2003 Caribbean & Canada Region Commonwealth Writers Prize – First Book
 * 2002 W.O. Mitchell City of Calgary Book Prize
 * 2001 Canongate Short-Fiction Prize (Scotland)
 * 1999 CBC Alberta Anthology – Short Story

Portuguese


 * 2023 Prémio Alberto Bastos – Poesia   (Poetry  Prize – Portuguese)
 * 2003 ProVerbo . Prémio – Poesia       (Poetry  Prize – Portuguese)
 * 2003 ProVerbo . Prémio – Conto        (Short-Story  Prize – Portuguese)