António Lobo Antunes
António Lobo Antunes (Lisbon, September 1, 1942) is considered to be the most important contemporary Portuguese writer. biography
António Lobo Antunes received a training as a psychiatrist and served as a physician during the colonial war with Angola. After returning to his native country in 1973, he started working on a psychiatric department in a hospital in Lisbon and worked for a while in Germany and Belgium. His war experiences inspired him to his debut novel Memória de Elefante (1979), in which a man traumatized dramatically from active service in Africa. By its success, Lobo Antunes decided to appeal to the writer. Meanwhile, he has published twenty-one novels (including Dans der verdoemden, Fado Alexandrino, The Inquisitors' Manual and Sermons to the Crocodiles), and is considered to be one of the most important European authors of his generation. Besides war and death, power is one of the dominant themes in his work. With almost burlesque humor, Lobo Antunes sketches psychological portraits of the little man. Different characters often carry the word at the same time, reflecting the moral complexity of Portuguese society.
In 1986 he received the Great Roman Prize of the Portuguese Writers' Union, and is widely regarded as a candidate for the Nobel Prize. In 2007, he was awarded the Camões Prize, a literary award in the Portuguese language field and in 2008 with the Juan Rulfo Prize, a prestigious prize for Latin American and Caribbean literature. Working
Translated books also mention the Dutch title.
wiki
