The True Actor
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<DIV><p>Down-on-his-luck actor Americo Abril is confounded by the various roles that he plays in real life?weary dad, blocked artist, henpecked husband, miserable lover?and the role he lands in the avant-garde film Being Paul Giamatti. Jacinto Lucas Pires’ <I>The True Actor</I> manages both a postmodern boondoggle and a touching story of identity and love and loss in austerity-era Portugal.<p><br><BR><BR><BR><BR><p>Jacinto Lucas Pires was born in Porto in 1974 and now lives in Lisbon. He is a writer, playwright, director, musician, and soccer aficionado. <I>The True Actor</I> won the 2013 Distinguished Literature Award of the DST (Domingos da Silva Teixeira) organization for the best book published in Portugal in the past two years. Pires won the prestigious Prémio Europa?David Mourão-Ferreira (Bari University, Italy/Instituto Camões, Portugal) in 2008. He plays with the band Os Quais, and his soccer column appears in <I>Jornal de Notícias</I>. Several translations of his short prose recently appeared in an issue of <I>The St. Petersburg Review</I> translated by Jaime Braz and Dean Thomas Ellis.<br></DIV>
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