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Bringing to life his countrymen’s daily struggles with the sea, struggles carried out against the dark-stoned background of their homeland, novelist Dias
NEW BEDFORD – Francisco Cota Fagundes, a professor emeritus of Spanish and Portuguese Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, will be offering in a virtual presentation a glimpse into the challenges he encountered while translating Vitorino Nemésio’s novel “Mau Tempo no Canal,” considered by literary critics as one of the greatest Portuguese novels of the 20th century. Hosted by the New Bedford Whaling Museum, “Stormy Isles: An Azorean Tale. Translating Literary Heterolingualism and Coastal Whaling” will take place Feb. 25 at 7 p.m. Originally published in 1944, the...