Translations
Literary translations
Paulo Lemos Horta translates poetry and prose from Portuguese, Spanish and French.
- “Sonnets by Camões”from Portuguese · Literatura Comparada Ontem e Hoje: Homenagem a Helena Carvalhão Buescu, ed. Amândio Reis and Ângela Fernandes (Tinta-da-China, 2026)
- Enrique Vila-Matas — “An Injection of Humility: The Pandemic Reader”from Spanish · Los Angeles Review of Books, 2020
- Silviano Santiago — “The Cosmopolitanism of the Poor”from Portuguese, with Magdalena Edwards · Cosmopolitanisms (NYU Press, 2017)
- Achille Mbembe — “Afropolitanism”from French · Cosmopolitanisms (NYU Press, 2017)
- José Cardoso Pires — “The Voyager Foretold”from Portuguese · Alphabet City: Lost in the Archives (House of Anansi, 2002)
- Fernando Pessoa — “Lisbon Revisited”from Portuguese · Alphabet City: Open City (House of Anansi)
From Camões, “Amor é fogo que arde sem se ver”
Love is a fire that burns unseen
A wound that hurts but is not felt
A discontented contentment
A pain so wild it fools itself.