LÃdia Jorge
Lidia Jorge ( born June 18, 1946 in Boliqueime ) is a Portuguese writer.
Life
Your youth she spent as an only child in the mother and other female family members in the Algarve. After her schooling in Faro, she moved to Lisbon and studied at the University of Lisbon Romance. With her first husband, an Air Force officer, she held during the Portuguese colonial war in Angola a few years and then in Mozambique.
Already her first novel O dia dos prodigios ( The day of miracles) became a major work of modern Portuguese literature.
Awards and prizes
For her novels she was together with her long-time translator Karin von Schweder - Schreiner won the 2006 the first ever albatross Literature Prize. Lidia Jorge received on 15 December 2010 an honorary doctorate from the Universidade do Algarve to mark the release of their debut work o dia dos prodigios 30 years ago.
Works
- O Dia dos prodigios, 1979, German: The day of miracles, 1989
- Notícia da Cidade Silvestre, 1984, German: message from the other side of the road. Suhrkamp Taschenbuch 1992, ISBN 3-518-38649-2.
- A Costa dos Murmúrios, 1988, German: The coast of Raunens, 1993 Suhrkamp Taschenbuch 1995, ISBN 3-518-38969-6. .
- A tool Alina, 1992, German: A Love, 1998
- O Jardim Sem Limites, 1995, German: paradise without borders, 1997
- O Vale da Paixão, 1998 German: The ceiling of the soldiers, 2000
- O Vento Assobiando nas Gruas, German: Milene, 2005
1995-1997 was published by Publicações Dom Quixote in Lisbon an eight -volume collected works under the title Obras completas de Lidia Jorge.