Featured artist: Literature

His now six collections of poetry suggest Kaur has a wealth of writing and life experience. As a prose writer he published five novels – Holy Mountain in 2015, a short poetic work called a unique auto-parody and a literary game. His second impressionist novel Gardens of a Blind Man won him the Tänapäev Publishers Novel Competition. His latest Little Ferdinand, 2019 was nominated for the European Union Prize for Literature in 2020. Following are Ostrich, cuckoo, seagull, and his latest novel Snow in Livonia.

His favourite book is George Orwell’s 1984, but he now has several books of his own published. If he ever has the chance to meet a famous writer, that will certainly be Steven King, but his debut novel Damn It is actually dedicated to all those sacrifices we are ready to in the name of love and sex. Sometimes inspiration strikes him out of the blue and he writes holus-bolus.

Being hopelessly romantic, his muse is always a woman, whether a real or an imaginary one. 

His next book "Pão de Açúcar" is based on a real case that shook Portugal in February 2006. A group of youths from a home in Porto nearly beat a seriously ill Brazilian transgender woman to death and threw her surviving body into the waterhole of a ruined building.

Ten years later, Afonso Cabral found an article about the horrific murder and decided to follow it. From the point of view of 12-year-old Rafael, Cabral tells a highly exciting story that takes place on the fringes of Portuguese society.

The language of 'Panza de burro' has a lot to do with recognizing the importance of using my own variant of Spanish in writing, Andrea explains. But beyond 'Panza de burro', we are dealing with a writer who had already shown her potential thanks to publications such as 'Woman without eyelids', of narrative poetry, or 'Primavera que sangra'. Born in Tenerife, Canary Islands, she has been distinguished among the best 25 young narrators of current Spanish literature by the prestigious literary magazine Granta.