Paulo da Costa is a Portuguese/Canadian author of seven books of poetry, non-fiction and short stories including The Scent of a Lie which won the 2001 Commonwealth Prize for Best First Book and the W.O. Mitchell Calgary Book Prize. He is also the winner of the Canongate Prize for New Writing and a two-time winner of the 2023 James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction from the Writers’ Guild of Alberta. Between Night and Darkness, his novel about the Portuguese revolution will be published in 2028.