Teresa Pinto Coelho was awarded the 2024 Grémio Literário Prize for her book ‘Eça de Queirós no Egipto e a Abertura do Canal de Suez’ [Eça de Queirós in Egypt and the Opening of the Suez Canal], published by Tinta da China in October 2024.

The book ‘reconstructs and studies the Queirosian trip to Egypt – which would be recorded by the author in notes and newspaper articles — presenting us with his complex Orientalism, framed in an Orientalist fashion that Eça knows, uses and, above all, reinterprets’. In a review published in Público, António Araújo considered the work to be ‘probably a definitive piece of research on Eça’s trip to Egypt to attend the famous inauguration of the Suez Canal’ and described Teresa Pinto Coelho as ‘one of our greatest specialists in the literary culture of the late 19th century, especially in Portuguese-British relations during that period’.

Teresa Pinto Coelho is a retired Full Professor at NOVA FCSH, having obtained her PhD from Oxford University in 1994. She was also director of the Instituto Camões Centre for Portuguese Language and Supernumerary Fellow at St. John’s College (2004-2007). In 2022 she was awarded the title of Honorary Research Fellow by the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages at the University of Oxford. She has researched in the fields of Luso-British cultural and imperial relations, Victorian studies, Queirosian studies and post-colonial studies.

Congratulations to the author!

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