Paulo da Costa was born in Angola and raised in Portugal. He is a writer, editor and translator who makes his home on the West Coast of Canada. paulo's first book of fiction The Scent of a Lie received the 2003 Commonwealth First Book Prize for the Canada-Caribbean Region and the W. O. Mitchell City of Calgary Book Prize. In Portuguese he has recently published the book of poems notas de rodapé - Livros Pé D'Orelha 2005. His poetry and fiction have been published in literary magazines around the world and have been translated to Italian, Spanish, Serbian, Slovenian and Portuguese.