António Lobo Antunes, the Portuguese writer, has died at the age of eighty-three. I think he was no longer in vogue (I don't know if he ever was), but we have a number of his novels translated into Catalan: The Inquisitors' Manual (Ediciones 62, translation by Xavier Pàmies), The Splendor of Portugal, Exhortation to the Crocodiles and Don't rush into this dark night (Proa Editions, translated by Joan Casas) and I didn't see you in Babylon yesterday (El Gall Editor, also translated by Joan Casas). It is highly recommended reading.