António Lobo Antunes

António Lobo Antunes ( born September 1, 1942 in Lisbon ) is a Portuguese writer.

Life

Lobo Antunes is considered one of the greatest Portuguese writers of the present; he is regarded for years as a contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature. His subjects are Portugal's history and present, always associated with fear, violence, death, illness, separations, where his main focus of "normal" people and less marginalized lies on the fate. Atmospheric and psychologically dense and linguistically unconventional he criticizes the modern society. A flood of metaphors and a multifaceted narrative energy partially generate almost baroque works.

Antunes studied medicine and was for 27 months during the colonial war military doctor in Angola. His experiences there he worked in the novel The Judas Kiss (Os Cus de Judas, 1979), with which he achieved his breakthrough as a writer in Portugal. Later he worked as a psychiatrist in a mental hospital. She now lives and works in Lisbon, the writer.

Prices

The Portuguese Writers' Association gave Antunes 1986 his novel Great price for the novel dance of the damned. He also received the Prix Europa radio play and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature and the 2005 Jerusalem Prize for the Freedom of the Individual in Society in 2000. 2007 Antunes was awarded the Prémio Camões, the most important literary prize in the Portuguese-speaking world.

Works

  • Memória de Elefante, 1979
  • A Explicação dos Pássaros, 1981
  • Conhecimento do Inferno, 1981
  • Fado Alexandrino, 1983
  • Auto dos Danados, 1985
  • As Naus, 1988
  • A Besta do Paraíso, 1989
  • Tratado the Paixões as Alma, 1990
  • A Ordem Natural the Coisas, 1992
  • A Morte de Carlos Gardel, 1994
  • A História do Hidroavião ( with illustrations by Vitorino ), 1994
  • Manual dos Inquisidores, 1996
  • O Esplendor de Portugal, 1997
  • Livro de Crónicas, 1998
  • Exortação aos Crocodilos, 1999
  • Não Entres Tao Depressa Nessa Noite Escura, 2000
  • Que quando tudo Farei arde? , 2001
  • Segundo Livro de Crónicas, 2002
  • Letrinhas the Cantigas, in limited edition, 2002
  • Boa Tarde às Coisas Aqui em Baixo, 2003
  • D' este viver aqui neste papel descripto. Cartas da guerra, 2005
  • Terceiro Livro de Crónicas, 2006
  • Ontem Não Te Vi Em Babilonia, 2006
  • O Meu Nome é Legião, 2007
  • O Arquipélago because insônia, 2008
  • Cavalos Que Que São Aqueles Fazem Sombra no Mar, 2009
  • Sôbolos Rios Que Vao, 2010
  • Quarto Livro de Crónicas, 2011
  • Comissão the Lágrimas, 2011
  • Não É Meia Noite Quem Quer, 2012
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