Agustina Bessa-Luís,

GOSE Gose () is a warm fermented beer that is usually brewed with at least 50% of the grain bill being malted wheat (with the rest being malted barley such as Pilsner malt), fruit syrups - such as lemon and coriander - and salt - either added or a ...

(; 15 October 1922 – 3 June 2019) was a Portuguese writer. From 1986 and 1987, she was director of the daily '' O Primeiro de Janeiro'' (

Porto Porto (), also known in English language, English as Oporto, is the List of cities in Portugal, second largest city in Portugal, after Lisbon. It is the capital of the Porto District and one of the Iberian Peninsula's major urban areas. Porto c ...

). From 1990 to 1993, she was director of the D. Maria II National Theatre (

Lisbon Lisbon ( ; ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 567,131, as of 2023, within its administrative limits and 3,028,000 within the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, metropolis, as of 2025. Lisbon is mainlan ...

). Her novels have been adapted for the screen by director

Manoel de Oliveira Manoel Cândido Pinto de Oliveira (; 11 December 1908 – 2 April 2015) was a Portuguese film director and screenwriter born in Cedofeita, Porto. He first began making films in 1927, when he and some friends attempted to make a film about Wor ...

: ''Fanny Owen'' ("Francisca"), ''

Abraham's Valley ''Abraham's Valley'' () is a 1993 Portuguese drama film directed by Manoel de Oliveira, based on a novel by Agustina Bessa-Luís, and partially inspired by Gustave Flaubert's 1857 novel ''Madame Bovary''. The film was selected as the Portuguese e ...

'', and ''The Lands of Risk'' ("The Convent"), in addition to the ''

Party A party is a gathering of people who have been invited by a Hospitality, host for the purposes of socializing, conversation, recreation, or as part of a festival or other commemoration or celebration of a special occasion. A party will oft ...

''. Director João Botelho directed A Corte do Norte based on Agustina's homonymous novel.

Awards

She was awarded the

Camões Prize The Camões Prize (, ), named after Luís de Camões, is the most prestigious prize for literature in the Portuguese language. The prize was established in 1989 and is supported by the governments of Brazil and Portugal. It is awarded annually to ...

in 2004.

Works

* ''A Sibila'' (1954; "The Sibyl") * ''ESTADOS ERÓTICOS IMEDIATOS DE SÖREN KIERKEGAARD'' ØREN KIERKEGAARD'S IMMEDIATE EROTIC STAGES Is based on Kierkegaard text from ''The Seducer's Diary'', ''The immediate erotic stages or the musical-erotic'', – popular name: ''The Don Juan-analysis'' -, and ''The Journals'', 1992 * ''Os Incuráveis'' (1956) * ''A Muralha'' (1957) * ''O Susto'' (1958) * ''Ternos Guerreiros'' (1960) * ''O Manto'' (1961) * ''O Sermão do Fogo'' (1962) * ''As Relações Humanas: I – Os Quatro Rios'' (1964) * ''As Relações Humanas: II – A Dança das Espadas'' (1965) * ''As Relações Humanas: III – Canção Diante de uma Porta Fechada'' (1966) * ''A Bíblia dos Pobres: I – Homens e Mulheres'' (1967) * ''A Bíblia dos Pobres: II – As Categorias'' (1970) * ''As Pessoas Felizes'' (1975) * ''Crónica do Cruzado Osb'' (1976) * ''As Fúrias'' (1977) * ''Fanny Owen'' (1979) * ''O Mosteiro'' (1980) * ''Os Meninos de Ouro'' (1983) * ''Adivinhas de Pedro e Inês'' * ''Um Bicho da Terra'' (1984), a

biography A biography, or simply bio, is a detailed description of a person's life. It involves more than just basic facts like education, work, relationships, and death; it portrays a person's experience of these life events. Unlike a profile or curri ...

of Uriel da Costa * ''Um Presépio Aberto'' (1984) * ''A Monja de Lisboa'' (1985) a

of Maria de Visitação * ''A Corte do Norte'' (1987) * ''Prazer e Glória'' (1988) * ''A Torre'' (1988) * ''Eugénia e Silvina'' (1989) * ''Vale Abraão'' (1991) * ''Ordens Menores'' (1992) * ''Fake-book (''1992)

Aphorisms An aphorism (from Greek ἀφορισμός: ''aphorismos'', denoting 'delimitation', 'distinction', and 'definition') is a concise, terse, laconic, or memorable expression of a general truth or principle. Aphorisms are often handed down by tra ...

with etchings by Daniel Garbade * ''As Terras do Risco'' (1994) * ''O Concerto dos Flamengos'' (1994) * ''Aquário e Sagitário'' (1995) short story * ''Um Outro Olhar sobre Portugal'' (1995), Voyage with

photographs A photograph (also known as a photo, or more generically referred to as an ''image'' or ''picture'') is an image created by light falling on a photosensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic image sensor. The process and pra ...

by Pierre Rossollin and Illustrations by Maluda * ''Memórias Laurentinas'' (1996) * ''Um Cão que Sonha'' (1997) * ''O Comum dos Mortais'' (1988) * ''A Quinta Essência'' (1999) * ''Dominga'' (1999) * ''Contemplação Carinhosa da Angústia'' (2000), Anthologie * ''O Princípio da Incerteza: I – Jóia de Família'' (2001) * ''O Princípio da Incerteza: II – A Alma dos Ricos'' (2002) * ''O Princípio da Incerteza: III – Os Espaços em Branco'' (2003) * ''Antes do Degelo'' (2004) * ''Doidos e Amantes'' (2005) * ''A Ronda da Noite'' (2006)

References

Sources

* Jens Staubrand: ''Kierkegaard International Bibliography Music Works and Plays,'' Copenhagen 2009. In English and Danish. 1922 births 2019 deaths Golden Globes (Portugal) winners Camões Prize winners 20th-century Portuguese women writers 20th-century Portuguese writers People from Amarante, Portugal {{Portugal-writer-stub