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Culture Thought and the Portuguese Language: A Reading & Conversation with Gonçalo M. Tavares
Gonçalo M. Tavares is a leading writer of contemporary Portuguese literature. Among his most celebrated novels are Jerusalem, Learning to Pray in the Age of Technique, and A Man: Klaus Klump. Tavares, who teaches philosophy at the University of Lisbon, has been awarded a series of prestigious national and international prizes, including the 2005 José Saramago Prize and the 2010 Prize for Best Foreign Book (France), and was on the long list for the Best Translated Book Award in Fiction…
Find out more »Culture Thought and the Portuguese Language: A Reading & Conversation with Gonçalo M. Tavares
Gonçalo M. Tavares is a leading writer of contemporary Portuguese literature. Among his most celebrated novels are Jerusalem, Learning to Pray in the Age of Technique, and A Man: Klaus Klump. Tavares, who teaches philosophy at the University of Lisbon, has been awarded a series of prestigious national and international prizes, including the 2005 José Saramago Prize and the 2010 Prize for Best Foreign Book (France), and was on the long list for the Best Translated Book Award in Fiction…
Find out more »Culture Thought and the Portuguese Language: A Reading & Conversation with Gonçalo M. Tavares
Gonçalo M. Tavares is a leading writer of contemporary Portuguese literature. Among his most celebrated novels are Jerusalem, Learning to Pray in the Age of Technique, and A Man: Klaus Klump. Tavares, who teaches philosophy at the University of Lisbon, has been awarded a series of prestigious national and international prizes, including the 2005 José Saramago Prize and the 2010 Prize for Best Foreign Book (France), and was on the long list for the Best Translated Book Award in Fiction…
Find out more »Culture Thought and the Portuguese Language: A Reading & Conversation with Gonçalo M. Tavares
Gonçalo M. Tavares is a leading writer of contemporary Portuguese literature. Among his most celebrated novels are Jerusalem, Learning to Pray in the Age of Technique, and A Man: Klaus Klump. Tavares, who teaches philosophy at the University of Lisbon, has been awarded a series of prestigious national and international prizes, including the 2005 José Saramago Prize and the 2010 Prize for Best Foreign Book (France), and was on the long list for the Best Translated Book Award in Fiction…
Find out more »National Book Award Winning Poet MARK DOTY reads with BU Alum TOMAS UNGER
Boston University is pleased to welcome National Book Award Winning Poet MARK DOTY reading with BU Alum TOMAS UNGER. This reading, part of the Robert Lowell Memorial Poetry Reading Series, will be introduced by Robert Pinsky. The reading will be followed by book signing and reception. This event is free and open to the public.
Find out more »Did You Know?
Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.