The Normal Life | Dulce Maria Cardoso | Granta

The Normal Life

Dulce Maria Cardoso

Translated by Ángel Gurría-Quintana

‘Blood had started to come out from within, thick and dark blood that forced me to use sanitary pads every month.’

Dulce Maria Cardoso

Dulce Maria Cardoso is a Portuguese novelist. Her first novel, Campo de Sangue, won the Grand Prize Acontece de Romance, O Meus Sentimentos won the EU Prize for Literature and O Chão dos Pardais won the Portuguese PEN Club Award.

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Translated by Ángel Gurría-Quintana

Ángel Gurría-Quintana is a historian, journalist and literary translator from Spanish and Portuguese. He writes regularly for the books pages of the Financial Times. His translations include Other Carnivals: Short Stories from Brazil (Full Circle Editions, 2013) and The Return, by Dulce Maria Cardoso (Maclehose Press, 2016).

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