María del Pilar del Río Sánchez (born March 15, 1950) is a Spanish journalist, writer and translator. She is the president of
José Saramago Foundation.
Biography
Pilar del Río was born in
Castril (
Granada
Granada ( ; ) is the capital city of the province of Granada, in the autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. Granada is located at the foot of the Sierra Nevada (Spain), Sierra Nevada mountains, at the confluence ...
) in 1950, to Antonio and Carmen, the eldest of fifteen children. She worked as a journalist at
TVE and Sevilla's
Canal Sur
Canal Sur ('South Channel') is part of Radio y Televisión de Andalucía (RTVA), the public broadcasting company of Andalusia. It was created by means of the devolved powers given to this autononomous community by an Act of Parliament in its ...
.
In 1986, del Río met the Portuguese writer
José Saramago
José de Sousa Saramago (; 16 November 1922 – 18 June 2010) was a Portuguese people, Portuguese writer. He was the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony ith which ...
after she read all of his books that were translated into Spanish. They got married two years later, in 1988, and decided to live in Lisbon, moving afterwards in 1993 to Lanzarote, one of the Spanish Canary Islands. She lived with José Saramago until his death, in 2010, also translating many of Saramago's works into Spanish. In 2010, after her husband's death, del Río acquired Portuguese citizenship.
Pilar del Río is president of the
José Saramago Foundation. On May 26, 2017 she was awarded the Luso-Spanish Arts and Culture Prize at the National Library of Spain.
Works
* ''Los andaluces'' (written with Juan Teba). Barcelona: Editorial Epidauro, 1979.
Translations
Books by José Saramago which Del Río translated into Spanish:
* ''
Todos os Nomes'' (Todos los nombres). Madrid: Santillana, 2001.
* ''
A Caverna'' (La caverna). Madrid: Santillana, 2001.
* ''A Maior Flor do Mundo'' (La flor más grande del mundo). Madrid: Alfaguara, 2001
* ''
O Homem Duplicado'' (El hombre duplicado). Madrid: Alfaguara, 2002.
* ''
O Conto da Ilha Desconhecida'' (El cuento de la isla desconocida). Madrid: Suma de Letras, 2002.
* ''
Ensaio sobre a Lucidez'' (Ensayo sobre la lucidez). Madrid : Santillana, 2004.
* ''
As Intermitências da Morte'' (Las intermitencias de la muerte). Madrid: Alfaguara, 2005.
* ''
As Pequenas Memórias'' (Las pequeñas memorias). Madrid: Alfaguara, 2007.
* ''
A Viagem do Elefante'' (El viaje del elefante). Madrid: Santillana, 2010.
* ''
Caim'' (Caín). Madrid: Punto de Lectura, 2011.
* ''
Claraboia'' (Claraboya), ''(written in 1952)''. Madrid: Alfaguara, 2011.
* ''Alabardas'' (Alabardas), ''(unfinished)''. Madrid: Alfaguara, 2014.
See also
* ''
José and Pilar'', a 2010 documentary about her and Saramago.
References
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1950 births
Living people
20th-century Spanish women
21st-century Spanish women
People from the Province of Granada
Portuguese people of Spanish descent
Portuguese–Spanish translators
Spanish journalists
Spanish translators
Spanish women journalists
Spanish women writers
Translators of José Saramago