Nuno Camarneiro is an award-winning novelist from Figueira da Foz, Portugal. He earned his undergraduate degree in physical engineering from the University of Coimbra and a PhD in cultural heritage science from the University of Florence. A winner of the prestigious Prémio LeYa literary prize, Camarneiro has published three novels to date: No meu peito não cabem pássaros (My Breast Can Hold No Birds, Publicações Dom Quixote, 2011), Debaixo de algum céu (Under the Far Heavens, Leya, 2013), and O fogo será a tua casa (Fire Shall Be Your Home, Publicações Dom Quixote, 2018).
Translation Folio
Winter 2025
The Grandfather
The Kenyon Review · “The Grandfather” by Nuno Camarneiro (trans. Michele Bantz) My paternal grandfather was blind from birth. His name was Mehmet, and he was a portly, cheerful man […]