Almeida Faria

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Almeida Faria at the age of 19
Almeida Faria at the age of 40

José Benigno de Almeida Faria (born May 4, 1943 in Montemor-o-Novo ) is a Portuguese writer. He is one of the main representatives of contemporary literary realism in Portugal and, above all, very important as a novelist .

Life

The narrative gifted young man published his first novel at the age of 19. He studied law and literature and then took his exams as a philosopher. Almeida Faria is now professor of aesthetics and philosophy at the Universidade Nova in Lisbon . In 1968 and 1969 he was a guest author in Iowa City (USA) and in West Berlin (Writer in Residence).

As a man of letters he is versatile. He is a novelist, narrator, translator (including a book of poems by Hans Magnus Enzensberger 1979) and essayist. He has published in various foreign and literary magazines, such as German, Brazilian, French, Dutch, Italian, Swedish, US and Portuguese magazines. He was also one of the first presidents of the PEN club in Portugal.

His books have been translated into German, Spanish, French, Dutch, Swedish, Italian and Hungarian.

Curt Meyer-Clason translated the book Passionstag , which was published in 1968 by S. Fischer Verlag. In 1980 fragments of a biography were translated in West Berlin during a literary colloquium .

Awards (selection)

Works (selection)

Essays
  • Peregrinação aos lugares selectos . 1971.
  • Da Poeta-Pintor ao Pintor-Poeta . 1988.
Novels
  • Tetralogia Lusitania . Caminho, Lisbon 1986ff
  1. A Paixão Caminho, Lisbon 1991, ISBN 972-21-0237-0 (EA Lisbon 1965), German translation: Passion Day. Roman (A Paixão). S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 1968 (translated by Curt Meyer-Clason ).
  2. Cortes . 1978.
  3. Lusitânia . 1980.
  4. Cavaleiro Andante . 1983.
  • Rumor Branco , 1962.
  • O Conquistador . 1990.
  • O murmuro do mundo . 2012.
Plays

literature

  • Vanessa Castagna: Andanças literárias de Don Juan. O caso português de "O Conquistador" de Almeida Faria . In: Studi di letteratura ispano-americana , Vol. 36 (2002), pp. 41-78, ISSN  2037-6995
  • Lilian Jacoto: Da saga à andança solitáría. a crise da autoridade na "Tetralogia Lusitania" de Almeida Faria . Yendis Editorial, São Caetano do Sul 2005, ISBN 85-98859-13-3 .
  • Bernard Martocq: De l'histoire d'un naufrage au naufrage d'hitoire. Almeida Faria and Lobo Antunes . In: Cahiers d'études romanes / NS , Vol. 1 (1998), pp. 73-86, ISSN  0180-684X
  • Sónia V. Rodrigues: Polémica em torno de "Rumor branco" de Almeida Faria. Réplica e contra-réplica . In: Líguas e literaturas , Vol. 18 (2001), pp. 339-377, ISSN  0871-1682
  • Dorothea Schurig: Almeida Faria "Tetralogia lusitania" . In: Rainer Hess (ed.): Portuguese novels of the present. Interpretations (Bibliotheca Ibero-Americana; Vol. 40). Vervuert, Frankfurt / M. 1992, ISBN 3-89354-540-9 , pp. 83-93.
  • Rosa Maria Sequeira: A metamorfose dos mitos "O conquistador" (1990) . In: Dietrich Briesemeister (ed.): Modern myths in the literatures of Portugal, Brazil and Angola (Bibliotheca luso-brasileira; Vol. 5). TFM, Frankfurt / M. 1998, ISBN 3-925203-63-X .

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personal data
SURNAME Faria, Almeida
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Faria, José Benigno de Almeida
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Montemor-o-Novo , Portugal