No year reviews.<\/p>\n
Certainly no favourites of the decade. Ten years is way too long a period to condense into a few works and moments.<\/p>\n
Just a recap of what happened throughout the weird 2020.<\/p>\n
Away, foul creature! But not too far.<\/a><\/strong> Ai que a Princesa \u00e9 um diabrete!<\/a><\/strong> Escritores l\u00eaem excertos de livros que marcaram as suas vidas: n\u00ba 23<\/a><\/strong> Pref\u00e1cio: Um gosto a cosmos<\/a><\/strong> Pref\u00e1cio: Leituras ao card\u00e1pio social<\/a><\/strong> Haver\u00e1 trilhos: Por universos muito navegados<\/a><\/strong> Tale as new as time: manifestations of \u201cBeauty and the Beast\u201d and \u201cBluebeard\u201d in Jordan Peele\u2019s Get Out<\/em><\/a><\/strong> Litortura Nacional \u2013 Epis\u00f3dio #02: In\u00eas Botelho<\/a><\/strong> No year reviews. Certainly no favourites of the decade. Ten years is way too long a period to condense into a few works and moments. Just a recap of what happened throughout the weird 2020. Away, foul creature! But not too far. Written in English for The Portuguese Portal it was published in March and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[62,64,77,72,65,59,67,61],"class_list":["post-1215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-bibliografia","tag-contos","tag-entrevistas","tag-listagens","tag-nao-ficcao","tag-novidades","tag-revista-bang","tag-site"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inesbotelho.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inesbotelho.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inesbotelho.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inesbotelho.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inesbotelho.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1215"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inesbotelho.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1284,"href":"https:\/\/inesbotelho.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215\/revisions\/1284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inesbotelho.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inesbotelho.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inesbotelho.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWritten in English for The Portuguese Portal<\/a> it was published in March and structured to introduce \u201cA Dama P\u00e9-de-Cabra: rimance de um jogral\u201d [“Lady Goat-Foot: romance of a minstrel<\/a>“] by Alexandre Herculano to an international audience. Herculano\u2019s novella has an electronic edition as part of the Portuguese anthology Dentro da Noute: Contos G\u00f3ticos<\/a><\/em>. [Non-fiction]<\/a><\/p>\n
\nIn April, at the invitation of Bairro dos Livros<\/a>, I recorded a video reading a children\u2019s story. For the purpose, I picked this text from 2012 about a playful little girl. [Fiction \u2013 Short Stories]<\/a><\/p>\n
\nAs nossas leituras: n\u00ba 9 \u2013 In\u00eas Botelho<\/a><\/strong>
\nBoth to honour books and stress their importance, writer Jo\u00e3o Nuno Azambuja<\/a> set up a section on his facebook timeline and asked people connected to the arts to share readings of books they hold dear. I chose Novas cartas portuguesas<\/em> [New Portuguese Letters<\/em>] by Maria Isabel Barreno, Maria Teresa Horta, and Maria Velho da Costa \u2013 a work truly wondrous yet more often mentioned than actually read or even known. The video was published in May. Since then, Azambuja\u2019s idea was sponsored by UCCLA \u2013 Uni\u00e3o das Cidades Capitais de L\u00edngua Portuguesa<\/a>, renamed As nossas leituras<\/a><\/em>, and now accepts submissions from interested individuals. Those wishing to send their own contributions, always in Portuguese, should contact Jo\u00e3o Nuno Azambuja either via facebook message<\/a> or by email<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nThe research project Alimentopia \u2013 Utopian Foodways<\/a> on the one hand offered a multidisciplinary approach to the discussion of food production and on the other examined how food impacts the plot of fantasy and science fiction texts. In this context, it invited Jo\u00e3o Barreiros<\/a> to develop a story where food would become theme and influence. Um Gosto a C\u00e9u no Lago do Breu<\/em> is not only a classic Barreiros\u2019 work but also a surprising piece. One can acquire it in paperback edition<\/a> or the digital format available for free<\/a> since May. I had the pleasure of penning the preface. [Non-fiction]<\/a><\/p>\n
\nAlimentopia<\/a> likewise invited Lu\u00eds Filipe Silva<\/a> to put together a tale dealing with food concerns. Silva answered with a dystopia as relevant to the project as to current debates. Herr Prosit l\u00ea o card\u00e1pio ou Hoje jejuamos<\/em> comes in paperback<\/a> and digital<\/a>, the latter published in May and free to download. I equally had the fortunate chance to write the preface. [Non-fiction]<\/a><\/p>\n
\nThe year 2020 marked the fifteenth anniversary of Revista Bang!<\/a>. However, the pandemic mangled the celebrations. The latest issue, number 28, even had its publication postponed. It was eventually released in June, featuring the usual variety of short stories, interviews, and articles on the numerous worlds of speculative fiction. For my column I decided to survey the phenomenon of constant adaptations, sequels, and prequels. [Non-fiction]<\/a><\/p>\n
\nLiterature and the Arts since the 1960s: Protest, Identity and the Imagination<\/em>, edited by Jorge Almeida e Pinho and M\u00e1rcia Lemos, was published in October by Cambridge Scholars Publishing<\/a>. The collection focuses on artistic works with social and political intents from the 1960s to the present. I consider how Jordan Peele\u2019s Get Out uses fairy tales for sociopolitical goals and provides the best animal-groom related film of 2017. [Non-fiction]<\/a><\/p>\n
\nWriter Filipe Faria<\/a> started the YouTube channel Litortura Nacional<\/a> as a way to promote Portuguese literature. He interviewed me in November and for almost an hour we talked about fantasy and other genres, about music and language and I tried to construct sentences with words I didn\u2019t know. There is an audio-only version<\/a> that can also be accessed through spotify<\/a>. [Press \u2013 Radio and television]<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"