An English Family: Scenes from an Oporto Life

Júlio Dinis was the pseudonym of Joaquim Guilherme Gomes Coelho. Born in Oporto in 1839, he went on to train and practise as a doctor. However, when diagnosed with tuberculosis, he resigned his post as professor at the medical school in Oporto and began writing novels. He had previously written and published several short stories, but his first novel, published initially in serial form, met with instant success, and his works remain popular to this day. He died when he was only thirty-one in September 1871. This is the first English translation of his work.

Margaret Jull Costa has translated the works of many Spanish and Portuguese writers. She won the Portuguese Translation Prize twice and shortlisted on another 4 occasions, and with Javier Marías, she won the 1997 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, she has won the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize on 3 occasions, the Marsh Translation Prize for Children's Fiction in Translation, the Valle-Inclan Translation Prize and with Robin Patterson the Best Translated Book Award. In 2013, she was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and, in 2014, was awarded an OBE.