Merrill Fellow, João Tordo, to read at Bank Square Books in Mystic
Please join us at Bank Square Books for a reading by James Merrill Fellow, João Tordo.
João has published 17 novels and 2 books of non-fiction. Occasionally,
he also writes for TV and film, including two Netflix Originals. In 2009 he received
the José Saramago Literary Prize. Since then, his novels have been published in
several countries and languages, and he received the Fernando Namora Literary
Prize in 2021. He has also been shortlisted for numerous awards, such as the Pen
Club Literary Prize or the European Literary Award. He received fellowships from
Macdowell, Château de Lavigny, Conseil des Arts de Montreal and Ledig House,
among others. He also works as a writing teacher and has a side project — MARIA
GIBSON — of solo guitar work. He lives in Lisbon. All of his books are published by
Penguin Random House.
https://www.penguinlivros.pt/autores/joao-tordo/
RSVP encouraged, but not required to attend.
