title: Paulo da Costa (writer)
text: # Paulo da Costa (writer)
  
  Paulo da Costa, born in Angola and raised in Portugal, is a bilingual Canadian-Portuguese author, editor and translator living in Canada.
  
  ## Works
  
  ### Fiction
  
  * Scent of a Lie - 2002 - Caribbean & Canada Commonwealth Writers Prize Best First Book 2003, 2002 W.O. Mitchell City of Calgary Book Prize, 2001 Cannongate Prize - Scotland.
  * O Perfume da Mentira - Livros Pé d'Orelha, 2012
  * The Green and Purple Skin of The World - Freehand Books, 2013
  * The Midwife of Torment & Other Stories, 55 sudden fictions – Guernica Editions, 2017
  
  ### Non-Fiction
  
  * Beyond Bullfights and Ice Hockey, Essays on Identity, Language and Writing Culture, Boavista Press, 2015
  
  ### Poetry
  
  * Notas-de-rodapé - Portuguese poems – Livros Pé d'Orelha, 2005
  
  ### Literary translation
  
  * The Cartography of Being – Translated poems of Nuno Júdice 1970-2005 LPO 2012
  
  ### Audio chapbooks
  
  * Notas-de-rodapé - Portuguese poems – Livros Pé d'Orelha 2005
  * Midwife of Torment & Other Stories - Livros Pé d'Orelha 2005
  * Twenty Poems – English Poems - Livros Pé d'Orelha – 2006
  * XX poemas - Portuguese poems - Livros Pé d'Orelha - 2006
  * The Book of Catalogues – Livros Pé d'Orelha - 2010
  
  ## Awards
  
  * 2020 James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction
  * 2003 Caribbean & Canada Region Commonwealth Writers Prize – First Book
  * 2002 W.O. Mitchell City of Calgary Book Prize
  * 2001 Canongate Short-Fiction Prize (Scotland)
  * 1999 CBC Alberta Anthology – Short Story
  
  Portuguese
  
  * 2003 ProVerbo . Prémio – Poesia (Poetry Prize – Portuguese)
  * 2003 ProVerbo . Prémio – Conto (Short-Story Prize – Portuguese)
  