Gonçalo M. Tavares

Gonçalo Manuel Tavares (born in 1970 in Luanda, Angola ) is a Portuguese writer who has worked as a novelist, playwright, poet and essayist, and one of the most important Portuguese writers of his generation since its debut in 2001.

Life

Gonçalo M. Tavares was in Luanda, Angola (then a Portuguese colony ), born in 1970 as the son of a construction worker. He spent his childhood in Aveiro, before he moved to Lisbon at age 18.

He is Professor of Philosophy with a focus on epistemology at the Technical University of Lisbon.

Gonçalo M. Tavares had his literary debut in 2001 with the poetry collection Livro de Dança, since then he has published more than 30 books that include various genres, as poetry, drama, novel, short story, children's books, essays.

Tavares has divided its literature in series, of which " O Bairro " ( The district ) and the novel tetralogy " O Reino " ( The kingdom ) are the best known. " O Bairro " peopled successively with well-known personalities from the history of literature ( Bertolt Brecht, Paul Valéry, Italo Calvino, Roberto Juarroz, Karl Kraus, Robert Walser, André Breton, TS Eliot, Emanuel Swedenborg ), which he paraphrased in volumes of short prose.

Many of his books have been translated into numerous languages. In German language, his novel are so far the invalids ( Original title: Jerusalém ) in 2012 at the DVA and the short prose water, dog, horse, head ( original title: Água, cão, cavalo, cabeça ) published in 2008 in publishing the apple.

Works

• Uma Viagem à Índia, 2010 ( Prêmio Especial de Imprensa Melhor Livro 2010 Ler / Book Tailors,

Grande Prêmio Romance e Novela Associação Portuguesa de Autores since 2011 Prémio literario Fernando Namora 2011 Prémio Fundação Inês de Castro 2012)

• Matteo perdeu o emprego ", 2010
• Canções Mexicanas, 2011
• Short Movie, 2011

O Reino (novels )

• To Homem: Klaus Klump, 2003
• A Máquina de Joseph Walser, 2004
• Jerusalém. Círculo de Leitores, Lisbon 2004, ISBN 972-42-3270-0, German: The maimed, translated by Marianne Gareis, German publishing house, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-421-04502-7, awarded the José Prémio Saramago 2005, the Prémio Ler / Millennium BCP and the Portugal Telecom de Literatura Prémio 2007.
• Aprender a Rezar na Era da Técnica, 2007

O Bairro ( short prose, paraphrases )

• O Senhor Valéry, 2002 ( Prémio Branquinho da Fonseca of the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian and the weekly newspaper Expresso )
• O Senhor Henri, 2003
• O Senhor Brecht, 2004
• O Senhor Juarroz, 2004
• O Senhor Kraus, 2005
• O Senhor Calvino, 2005
• O Senhor Walser, 2006
• O Senhor Breton, 2008
• O Senhor Swedenborg e as investigações Geometricas, 2009
• O Senhor Eliot e as Conferencias, 2010

Livros Pretos ( Canções )

• Água, cão, cavalo, cabeça - 2006 ( Prémio Grande de Conto " Camilo Castelo Branco " the Portuguese Writers' Association ); German: water, dog, horse, head, translated by Michael bowlers. Publisher The apple, Vienna 2008.

Enciclopedia

• Breves notas sobre ciência, 2006
• Breves notas sobre o medo, 2007
• Breves notas sobre as ligações, 2009

Bloom Books

• A perna Esquerda de Paris de Roland Barthes Seguido e Robert Musil, 2004

Poesia ( Poetry )

Estórias ( short stories )

• Histórias falsas, 2005

Teatro ( Theatre)

• O homem ou mulher é é ou tonto, 2003
• A Colher de Samuel Beckett, 2003

Arquivos

• Biblioteca, 2004

Investigações

• Livro da dança, 2001
• Investigações. Novalis, 2002 ( " Prémio Revelação de Poesia " the Portuguese Writers' Association )
• Investigações Geometricas, 2005

Awards

Tavares ' work has been honored with numerous awards at home and abroad, including with the Prémio Telecom de Literatura em Língua Portuguesa (Brazil), the price of the Portuguese Writers' Association Associação Portuguesa de Escritores (APE ), the Prémio Branquinho da Fonseca, the Prémio Lex / Millennium BCP, the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger 2010 and the Prix Littéraire Européen 2011.

His most significant price so far, however, was the Prémio José Saramago, who was awarded to him in 2005. In the eulogy José Saramago said, the now legendary in Portugal now phrases: " Gonçalo M. Tavares has no right to write at the age of 35 years as well. One would like to beat him. " This praise of the Nobel laureate explains why Tavares is treated as a worthy successor of Saramago and Antonio Lobo Antunes.

The French newspaper Le Figaro described him as " Portuguese Kafka". Great authors -reviewed his works, so Eduardo Lourenço, Alberto Manguel and Moacyr Scliar.