Writer's Corner Writer's Corner: Carlos A. Almeida: Interview on 97.3 WJFD-FM

Contraponto program series. March 21, 2021 at 11:00 am

Dr.  Carlos A. Almeida is an Associate Professor of Portuguese and the Director of LusoCentro at Bristol Community College, in Fall River, Massachusetts and a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Portuguese at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. He received a BA from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and a MA and PhD from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He specializes in Portuguese and Cabo Verdean languages, literatures and cultures. He is a co-translator of Baltazar Lopes’ Chiquinho: A Novel of Cabo Verde (2019). He is a Board of Director’s Member of the Cape Verdean Association in New Bedford and a Member of the Cape Verdean Committee of the New Bedford Whaling Museum. 

Please join WJFD host Irene Amaral for a discussion with Dr. Almeida about Chiquinho's unprecedented translation and publication by Tagus Press.

Audio Interview (WJFD): https://www.mixcloud.com/cpsc/contraponto-interview-with-prof-carlos-a-almeida-on-chiquinho-a-novel-of-cabo-verde-tagus-press/

To purchase Chiquinho: A Novel of Cabo Verde, please visit the University of Massachusetts Press website by clicking here. The book can also be purchased on Amazon by clicking here.

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