Apresentação Pessoal

ANA LUÍSA AMARAL is a senior researcher and member of the Board of Directors of the Margarida Losa Institute for Comparative Literature, University of Porto. She holds a Ph.D. in Anglo-American Literature, with a specialization on Emily Dickinson, and has academic publications (in Portugal and abroad) in the areas of English and American Poetry, Comparative Poetics and Feminist Studies. She is co-author (with Ana Gabriela Macedo) of the Dictionary of Feminist Criticism (Afrontamento, 2005) and responsible for the annotated edition of New Portuguese Letters (Dom Quixote, 2010) and the coordinator of the international project New Portuguese Letters 40 Years Later, financed by FCT, that involved 10 countries and over 60 researchers. She is the editor of several academic books, such as Novas Cartas Portuguesas entre Portugal e o Mundo (with Marinela Freitas, Dom Quixote, 2014), or New Portuguese Letters to the World (with Ana Paula Ferreira and Marinela Freitas, Peter Lang, 2015). She has written over twenty books of poetry, theatre, children’s literature and fiction. She has translated poets like John Updike, or Emily Dickinson. Theatre plays have been staged around her work. Her books are published in a large number of countries. She was awarded several prizes and distinctions in Portugal and abroad. In 2015, a book of essays on her work will come out by Peter Lang (eds. Claire Williams and Teresa Louro). Her poetry is being translated into English by Margaret Jull Costa.

Poetry books
-  Minha Senhora de Quê, Fora do Texto, 1990 (reed. Quetzal, 1999);
- Coisas de Partir, Fora do Texto, 1993 (reed. Gótica, 2001);
- Epopeias, Fora do Texto, 1994;
- E Muitos Os Caminhos, Poetas de Letras, 1995;
- Às Vezes o Paraíso, Quetzal, 1998 (reed. 2000);
- Imagens, Campo das Letras, 2000;
- Imagias, Gótica, 2002;
- A Arte de ser Tigre, Gótica, 2003;
- A Génese do Amor, Campo das Letras, 2005;
- Poesia Reunida (1990-2005), Quási, 2005;
- Entre Dois Rios e Outras Noites, Campo das Letras, 2007;
- Se Fosse um Intervalo, Dom Quixote (2009);
- Inversos, Poesia 1990-2010, Dom Quixote, 2010;
- Vozes, Dom Quixote, 2011;
- Escuro, Assírio & Alvim, 2014;
- Todavia, Assírio & Alvim, 2015;
- Em suma, Poesia 1990-2015, Assírio & Alvim, 2016.

 Theatre
 Próspero Morreu, Caminho, 2011.

 Fiction
 Ara, Sextante, 2013.

Books for children
- Gaspar, o Dedo Diferente e Outras Histórias, Campo das Letras, 1999;
- A História da Aranha Leopoldina, Porto, Campo das Letras, 2000 (adapted for the TV and for the theatre);
- A História da Aranha Leopoldina (revised edition), with a CD, Porto, Civilização (2010, forthcoming);
- A Relíquia, Quasi, 2008;
- Auto de Mofina Mendes, a partir da peça de Gil Vicente, Quasi, 2008;
- Gaspar, o Dedo Diferente, ed. revista, Civilização, 2011;
- A Tempestade, Quidnovi 2011 (National Reading Plan);
- Como Tu, Quidnovi, 2012, with a CD (music by Antonio Pinho Vargas, piano by Álvaro Teixeira Lopes, voices by Pedro Lamares, Rute Pimenta and Ana Luísa Amaral (National Reading Plan);
- Lenga-lenga de Lena, a Hiena, 2016 (Oficina Raquel, Rio de Janeiro, forthcoming).

 Translations
- Mar Meu/My Sea of Timor (poems by Xanana Gusmão), co-transl. with  Kristy Sword, Porto, Granito, 1998;
- Eunice de Souza: Poemas Escolhidos, Lisboa, Cotovia, 2001;
- Ponto Último e Outros Poemas (poetry by John Updike), Porto, Civilização, 2009;
- Emily Dickinson, Cem Poemas, with postface and annexes, Relógio D’Água, 2010;
- Emily Dickinson, Duzentos Poemas, Relógio D’Água, 2014;
- Carol (by Patricia Highsmith), with postface, Relógio D’Água, 2015;
- 31 Sonetos de William Shakespeare, with preface, Relógio D’Água, 2015 (forthcoming).

Main prizes and Awards
- Literary Prize Casino da Póvoa/Correntes d’Escritas (with A génese do amor, 2007)
- Literary Prize Giuseppe Acerbi (with A génese do Amor, 2007)
- Prize of APE- Grande Prémio de Poesia da Associação Portuguesa de Escritores (with Entre dois rios e outras noites, 2008)
- Prize of Poetry António Gedeão (with Vozes, 2010)
- Prize of Novel PEN CLUB (with Ara, 2014)
- Gold Medal of Câmara Municipal de Matosinhos, for services to literature, 2015
- Finalist for the Prize Portugal Telecom (with A génese do amor, Gryphus, 2008)
- Proposed to the Prize Reina Sofia, 2013;
- Finalist for the Prize Portugal Telecom (with Vozes, 2014)