Milton Hatoum

Milton Hatoum ( born August 19, 1952, in Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil) is a Brazilian writer of Lebanese descent.

Life

In 1968, Hatoum from Manaus to Brasilia and then to São Paulo, where he studied architecture. With a scholarship, he studied from 1979 in Madrid and Barcelona and then as a postgraduate at the Sorbonne. In 1984 he returned to Manaus and taught French literature at the Universidade Federal do Amazonas and as a guest lecturer in Brazilian literature at the University of California at Berkeley. 1989, his first novel appeared to Relato de certo Oriente, for which he received the Jabuti Prize for Literature for the first time. For his second novel, published in 2000, he also received the Jabuti price.

Both novels reflect the tensions in the lives of Lebanese immigrants, which result from living in two different worlds, the tropical Amazonian and their own cultural background.

In his two novels Homeboys and Cinzas do Norte exerts Hatoum criticism of the Brazilian military dictatorship.

Hatoum's novels have been translated into Italian, English, French. German and translated Spanish. Hatoum has, inter alia, works of George Sand and Gustave Flaubert translated into Portuguese.

Works

• Emilie or death in Manaus. Novel. From the Brazilian Portuguese by Karin von Schweder - Schreiner. Piper, Munich / Zurich 1992, ISBN 3-492-03502-7. ( Original title: Relato de um certo oriente ).
• Letter from Manaos. Novel. From the Brazilian Portuguese by Karin von Schweder - Schreiner. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-518-39930-6. ( Original title: Relato de um certo oriente ).
• Two brothers. Novel. From the Brazilian Portuguese by Karin von Schweder - Schreiner. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt aM 2002, ISBN 3-518-41364-3. (Original Title: Dois irmãos ).
• Ash from Amazon. Novel. From the Brazilian Portuguese by Karin von Schweder - Schreiner. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-518-42015-7. ( Original title: Cinzas do norte ).
• The Orphans of Eldorado. The myth of the enchanted city. From the Brazilian Portuguese by Karin von Schweder - Schreiner. Berlin -Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-8270-0502-1. ( Original title: Orfãos do Eldorado).