João Luís Barreto Guimarães wins North American poetry award
The work “Mediterrâneo”, by João Luís Barreto Guimarães, translated into English by Calvin Olsen, won the Willow Run Poetry award.
João Luís Barreto Guimarães, 53, is the first Portuguese author to be distinguished with this award, and the third poet, succeeding the Americans Roy Bentley, 67, winner in 2019, and Carol Tyx, in 2018.
In 2017, João Luís Barreto Guimarães was the winner of the António Ramos Rosa Poetry Prize, with “Mediterrâneo”, originally published in March 2016, by Quetzal.
In addition to the pecuniary prize worth a thousand dollars, about 830 euros, which the poet will receive, “Mediterrâneo” will have a publication and distribution in the Anglo-Saxon world, in an edition of the Hidden River Press, of Philadelphia, directed by the writer Debra Leigh Scott, who chaired the jury.
The Willow Run Poetry Book Award was admitted to about 200 originals by American poets and other nationalities, in English translation, having been selected 52 semifinalists and 10 finalists from the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, South Africa, Switzerland, Japan, India, China, and Portugal.
