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Gonçalo M. Tavares's "Plague Diary"

During this Covid-19 lockdown, the Portuguese novelist Gonçalo M. Tavares has been writing a daily "plague diary", which I have been translating into English as he goes.

These translations are being published online at a number of different venues. If you would like to read through the dated entries in sequence, which I'd recommend, you'll find a full directory below to guide to you to each one. (Please note that reading in sequence will require some jumping around, since many publications are presenting several non-consecutive entries on a single page.)

This page will be updated regularly as more pieces appear online.

You will also find my own short introduction to the project on Asymptote.



MARCH         
                     23rd - Words without Borders
                     24th - Granta
                     25th - Bookanista
                     26th - Granta
                     27th - PEN Transmissions
                     28th - Granta
                     29th - Bookanista
                     30th - Granta
                     31st - Bookanista


APRIL
                     1st - PEN Transmissions
                     2nd - Bookanista
                     3rd - PEN Transmissions
                     4th - Bookanista

                     5th - Scroll
                     6th - Asymptote
                     7th - Granta
                     8th - Asymptote
                     9th - Onomatomania
                    10th - Asymptote
                    11th - Politics/Letters

                    12th - Scroll
                    13th - Granta
                    14th - The Massachusetts Review
                    15th - The Massachusetts Review
                    16th - The Massachusetts Review

                    17th - [tbc]
                    18th - [tbc]
                    19th - Scroll
                    20th - Granta
                    21st - The White Review
                    22nd - [tbc]
                    23rd - [tbc]
                    24th - [tbc]
                    25th - [tbc]
                    26th - [tbc]
                    27th - [tbc]
                    28th - Granta
                    29th - [tbc]
                    30th - [tbc]

MAY
                    1st - Asymptote
                    2nd - Asymptote

                    3rd - [tbc]
                    4th - [tbc]
                    5th - The TLS
                    6th - [tbc]
                    7th - The White Review
                    8th - Asymptote
                    9th - Asymptote
                   
10th - [tbc]
                    11th - The TLS
                    12th - The White Review
                    13th - The TLS
                    14th - The White Review
                    15th - [tbc]
                    16th - [tbc]
                    17th - The TLS
                    18th - The TLS
                    19th - Trafika Europe
                    20th - Trafika Europe
                    21st - Trafika Europe
                    22nd - Trafika Europe

                    23rd - [tbc]
                    24th - [tbc]
                    25th - [tbc]
                    26th - [tbc]
                    27th - Asymptote
                    28th - Asymptote

                    29th - [tbc]
                    30th - [tbc]
If you represent a publication that might be interested in running future pieces from this series, please contact Gonçalo's agent, Nicole Witt, at the Mertin Witt agency.

You can find the original daily publications at Portugal's Expresso (in Portuguese); as well as other complete translation series at Argentina's Infobae (in Spanish, tr. Paula Abramo) and Greece's Efsyn (in Greek, tr. Athena Psilia).

You can watch a reading of the first entry below:
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