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List Of Portuguese Novelists
This is a list of Portuguese novelists. C * Mario de Carvalho (born 1944) * Camilo Castelo Branco (1825–1890) *Luísa Costa Gomes *Afonso Cruz (born 1971) D * Júlio Dinis (1839–1871) * José Riço Direitinho (born 1965) F *Rosa Lobato de Faria (1932–2010) *Vergílio Ferreira (1916–1996) *Raquel Freire (born 1973) G * Almeida Garrett (1799–1854) * Olga Gonçalves (1929–2004) * Pedro Guilherme-Moreira (born 1969) H * Alexandre Herculano (1810–1877) *Maria Teresa Horta (born 1937) L *António Lobo Antunes (born 1942) M *valter hugo mãe (born 1971) *Dulce Maria Cardoso (born 1964) * Guilherme de Melo (1931–2013) *Luís de Sttau Monteiro (1926–1993) N * Fernando Goncalves Namora (1919–1989) * Vitorino Nemésio (1901–1978) * António de Vasconcelos Nogueira (born 1961) O * Raquel Ochoa (born 1980) * Carlos de Oliveira (1921–1981) P *José Luís Peixoto (born 1974) *Ana Teresa Pereira (born 1958) *Ana Plácido (1831–1895) Q *José Maria de Eça de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira. It features the westernmost point in continental Europe, and its Iberian portion is bordered to the west and south by the Atlantic Ocean and to the north and east by Spain, the sole country to have a land border with Portugal. Its two archipelagos form two autonomous regions with their own regional governments. Lisbon is the capital and largest city by population. Portugal is the oldest continuously existing nation state on the Iberian Peninsula and one of the oldest in Europe, its territory having been continuously settled, invaded and fought over since prehistoric times. It was inhabited by pre-Celtic and Celtic peoples who had contact with Phoenicians and Ancient Greek traders, it was ruled by the Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
António Lobo Antunes
António Lobo Antunes, GCSE (; born 1 September 1942) is a Portuguese novelist and retired medical doctor. He has been named as a contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature. He has been awarded the 2000 Austrian State Prize, the 2003 Ovid Prize, the 2005 Jerusalem Prize, the 2007 Camões Prize, and the 2008 Juan Rulfo Prize. Life and career António Lobo Antunes was born in Lisbon as the eldest of six sons of João Alfredo de Figueiredo Lobo Antunes (born 1915), prominent Neurologist and professor, close collaborator of Egas Moniz, Nobel Prize of physiology, and wife Maria Margarida Machado de Almeida Lima (born 1917). He is the brother of João Lobo Antunes and Manuel Lobo Antunes. At the age of seven he decided to be a writer, but when he was 16, his father sent him to the medical school of the University of Lisbon. He graduated as a medical doctor, later specializing in psychiatry. During this time he never stopped writing. By the end of his education, Lobo Antunes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Maria De Eça De Queirós
José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese language, Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced differently in each language: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , is an old vernacular form of Joseph, which is also in current usage as a given name. José is also commonly used as part of masculine name composites, such as José Manuel, José Maria or Antonio José, and also in female name composites like Maria José or Marie-José. The feminine written form is ''Josée'' as in French. In Netherlandic Dutch language, Dutch, however, ''José'' is a feminine given name and is pronounced ; it may occur as part of name composites like Marie-José or as a feminine first name in its own right; it can also be short for the name ''Josina'' and even a Dutch hypocorism of the name ''Johanna''. In England, Jose is originally a Romano-British culture, Romano-Celtic surname, and people with this family name can ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ana Plácido
Ana Plácido (1831—1895) was a Portuguese novelist and author. Her best known work is the 1871 novel ''Herança de Lágrimas'' (English: ''A Legacy of Tears''), and she is also noted for an autobiographical book ''Luz Coada por Ferros'' (English: ''Light Filtered Through Bars''; published in 1863). She was married to the author Camilo Castelo Branco, with whom she earlier had an extra-marital affair while she was married."Women Writers up to 1974" by Hilary Owen and Cláudio Pazos Alonso, chapter 14, pp. 168–169, in ''A Companion to Portuguese Literature'' (eds. Stephen Parkinson, Cláudio Pazos Alonso and T.F. Earle), Woodbridge, Suffolk and Rochester, NY: Tamesis, ''Herança de Lágrimas'' tells the story of a married woman named Diana who decides not to engage in adultery after reading the story of her mother's fate after doing similarly. The novel A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ana Teresa Pereira
Ana Teresa Pereira (born 1958) is a Portuguese novelist. She was born in Funchal. She published her debut novel A debut novel is the first novel a novelist publishes. Debut novels are often the author's first opportunity to make an impact on the publishing industry, and thus the success or failure of a debut novel can affect the ability of the author to p ..., ''Matar a Imagem'' (''Killing the Image''), in 1989. She has written more than 20 books. References 1958 births Portuguese women novelists People from Funchal Living people 20th-century Portuguese novelists 21st-century Portuguese novelists 21st-century Portuguese women writers 21st-century Portuguese writers 20th-century Portuguese women writers {{Portugal-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Luís Peixoto
José Luís Marques Peixoto (; born September 4, 1974) is a Portuguese author, poet and playwright. A professional writer since 2001, his works have been translated into more than 30 languages. Biography José Luis Peixoto was born in the village of Galveias, in the Portuguese region of Alentejo. He lived in Galveias until the age of 18. He obtained a bachelor degree on Modern Languages and Literature from NOVA University Lisbon. After university, he was a teacher for some years in several schools in Portugal and Cape Verde, before becoming a professional writer in 2001. Peixoto's first book, ''Morreste-me'' (English title: ''You Died on Me''), was published in 2000. In 2001, he became the youngest ever recipient of the José Saramago Prize, at the age of 27, for his novel ''Nenhum Olhar''. International editions Translated editions of Peixoto's books are available from the following publishers: Bloomsbury (UK), Doubleday, Random House (US), Grasset, Seuil (France), L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos De Oliveira
Carlos de Oliveira, GOSE (10 August 1921 – 1 July 1981), was a Portuguese poet and novelist. Biography He was born in Belém, Brazil, to a Portuguese family which moved back to Portugal in 1923. They settled in Cantanhede, in the small village of Nossa Senhora das Febres, where his father practiced medicine. In 1933 he moves to Coimbra, where he will stay for 15 years, in order to complete his studies. He graduates from the University of Coimbra in history and philosophy in 1947. The following year he settles definitively in Lisbon. In 1949 he marries Ângela, whom he had met at the university and was from Madeira, who will become his constant companion and collaborator. He died in his home in Lisbon on 1 July 1981. Writings In 1942 he published his first book of poems ''Tourism'', with illustrations by Fernando Namora, as part of the ''Novo Cancioneiro'' collection and in 1943 published his first novel ''Casa na Duna''. In 1944, the novel ''Alcateia'' is seized by th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raquel Ochoa
Raquel Ochoa is a Portuguese author of novels, biographies and travel literature. In 2009 she was awarded the Prémio Agustina Bessa-Luís for the novel "A Casa-Comboio"., the story of an indo-Portuguese family from Damão and the untold history of Portuguese India, which was also translated and published in Italian. In 2023 her novel "Coração-Castelo" was select to the final list of Prémio-Leya. Life and career She was born in Lisbon in 1980.Revista Notícias Magazine n.º 1214 (30 de Agosto de 2015). Raquel Ochoa, pág. 11. and studied law. Accounts of her travel to several corners of the world are published on her blowww.omundoleseaviajar.blogspot.com and she is a regular contributor to various newspapers and magazine. In 2008, she published two books, ''O Vento dos Outros'' – an account of her travels in South America and ''Bana – Uma vida a cantar Cabo Verde'', the biography of Bana, a Cape Verdian singer. In 2011, her fourth book was published, ''A Infanta Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
António De Vasconcelos Nogueira
António Fernando de Vasconcelos Nogueira (born 26 September 1961) is a Portuguese philosopher, Social Science researcher, author, dramatist, and freelance journalist. Biography António de Vasconcelos Nogueira was born in Águeda, Portugal. He spent his childhood and part of his adolescence in Luanda, Angola, a former Portuguese colony in Africa, where he attended Catholic primary schools. Back in mainland Portugal, he continued his secondary education a Escola Secundária Marques de Castilho(founded 1927) in Águeda and a Liceu Homem Cristo(founded 1860) in Aveiro. António de Vasconcelos graduated in Philosophy from Saint Petersburg University (founded 1724). As a second year undergraduate he was admitted as a reader to the prestigious Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences (founded 1747). Subsequently, he gained a degree and master's from the University of Lisbon (founded 1290-1308; 1911) and later a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Aveiro, where he undertook p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vitorino Nemésio
Vitorino Nemésio Mendes Pinheiro da Silva (19 December 1901, in Praia da Vitória – 20 February 1978, in Lisbon) was a Portuguese poet, author and intellectual from Terceira, Azores, best known for his novel ''Mau Tempo No Canal'', as well as being a professor in the Faculty of Letters at the University of Lisbon and member of the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon. Biography Vitorino Nemesio was the son of Vitorino Gomes da Silva and Maria da Glória Mendes Pinheiro, and born in Praia da Vitória, on Terceira island, Azores (1901). His early education did not reflect the academic career that he would have; he encountered many problems as a student and was expelled from secondary school, repeating his fifth year of studies. Of his time in the secondary school in Angra do Heroísmo, Nemésio indicated his fondness for history classes, and attributed this interest to Manuel António Ferreira Deusdado (his history teacher), who introduced him to the social sciences. At 16 years of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernando Goncalves Namora
Fernando Namora (15 April 1919 – 31 January 1989), with the full name Fernando Gonçalves Namora was a Portuguese writer and medical doctor. Namora was born in Condeixa-a-Nova, Coimbra District and died in Lisbon, Portugal. He received his medical degree at 1942, by the University of Coimbra. Those years as student would have influenced him as a man (and writer) as well his experience as a country doctor, in remote regions as Beira Baixa and Alentejo, till the year of 1950, when he moved to Lisbon, invited to be medical assistant at the Instituto Português de Oncologia. His early book was '' Relevos'', poetry, in (1937), published at the age of 18. In (1938) appeared his first romance '' As Sete Partidas do Mundo'' that won the Almeida Garrett Prize, and, three years later, with some other colleagues at Coimbra, was involved in the literary project of '' Novo Cancioneiro'', (1941), with 10 volumes, which the first one was his poem named ''Terra'' - for many specialists the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luís De Sttau Monteiro
Luís Infante de la Cerda Sttau Monteiro (April 3, 1926 – July 23, 1993) was a Portuguese writer, novelist and playwright, a man to whom "the only sacred thing was to be free as the wind". Life Monteiro was born and died in Lisbon, Portugal. When he was ten years old, he went to London, accompanying his father, Armindo Monteiro, who was serving as the Portuguese ambassador to the United Kingdom. He returned to Portugal in 1943, after his father was removed from his position by António Salazar. He graduated from the University of Lisbon with a degree in law and worked as a lawyer for a short time. At this time he met his Future Wife , a British Lady JUNE ELIZABETH GOODYEAR and got married, Subsequently, he returned to London, where he worked as a journalist. He came into contact with contemporary English literature and decided to become a writer. He also developed an interest in Formula 2 racing, a hobby that he would pursue for the rest of his life. When he went back to Port ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
