Gonçalo M. Tavares

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Gonçalo M. Tavares

Gonçalo Manuel Tavares (* 1970 in Luanda , Angola ) is a Portuguese writer who works as a novelist , playwright , poet and essayist and has been one of the most important Portuguese authors of his generation since his debut in 2001.

Life

Gonçalo M. Tavares was born in 1970 in Luanda, Angola (then still a Portuguese colony ), the son of a construction worker. He spent his childhood in Aveiro before moving to Lisbon at the age of 18 .

He is professor of philosophy with a focus on epistemology at the Technical University of Lisbon .

Gonçalo M. Tavares made his literary debut in 2001 with the volume of poetry Livro de Dança , and since then he has published more than 30 books in various genres, such as poetry, drama, novels, short stories, children's books, essays.

Tavares arranges his literature in series, of which "O Bairro" (The City District) and the novel tetralogy "O Reino" (The Empire) are the best known. "O Bairro" is gradually populating with well-known personalities from literary history ( Bertolt Brecht , Paul Valéry , Italo Calvino , Roberto Juarroz , Karl Kraus , Robert Walser , André Breton , TS Eliot , Emanuel Swedenborg ), which he paraphrases in volumes with short prose.

Many of his books have been translated into numerous languages.

So far, two novels are in German - Die Versehrten (original title: Jerusalém ) and Joseph Walser's machine (original title: A Máquina de Joseph Walser ) at the DVA - as well as the short prose volume Wasser, Hund, Pferd, Kopf (original title: Água, cão, cavalo, cabeça ) published by Der Apfel. The ten-volume cycle Das Viertel (original title: O Bairro ) has been published continuously by Edition Korrespondenzen since spring 2020.

Works

  • Uma Viagem à Índia , 2010 (Prêmio Especial de Imprensa Melhor Livro 2010 Ler / Booktailors,

Grande Prêmio Romance e Novela da Associação Portuguesa de Autores 2011, Prémio Literário Fernando Namora 2011, Prémio Fundação Inês de Castro 2012)

  • Matteo perdeu o emprego , 2010
  • Canções Mexicanas , 2011
  • Short Movies , 2011

O Reino (novels)

  • Um Homem: Klaus Klump Editorial Caminho, Lisbon 2003.
  • A Máquina de Joseph Walser , Editorial Caminho, Lisbon 2003. German: Joseph Walser's machine , translated by Marianne Gareis , Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-421-04627-7
  • Jerusalem. Círculo de Leitores, Lisbon 2004 / Editorial Caminho, Lisbon 2005. German: Die Versehrten , translated by Marianne Gareis, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-421-04502-7 , awarded the Prémio José Saramago 2005, the Prémio Ler / Millennium-BCP and the Prémio Portugal Telecom de Literatura 2007.
  • Aprender a Rezar na Era da Técnica Editorial Caminho, Lisbon 2007.

O Bairro (short prose, paraphrases)

  • O Senhor Valéry , 2002 (Prémio Branquinho da Fonseca of the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian and the weekly Expresso). German: Mr. Valéry and the logic , transl .: Michael Kegler , Edition Korrespondenzen , Vienna 2020.
  • O Senhor Henri , 2003. German: Mr. Henri and the encyclopedia , transl .: Michael Kegler , Edition Korrespondenzen , Vienna 2020.
  • O Senhor Brecht , 2004. German: Mr. Brecht and success , transl .: Michael Kegler , Edition Korrespondenzen , Vienna 2020.
  • O Senhor Juarroz , 2004
  • O Senhor Kraus , 2005
  • O Senhor Calvino , 2005
  • O Senhor Walser , 2006
  • O Senhor Breton , 2008
  • O Senhor Swedenborg e as investigações geométricas , 2009
  • O Senhor Eliot e as conferências , 2010

Livros Pretos (canções)

  • Água, cão, cavalo, cabeça - 2006 (Grande Prémio de Conto "Camilo Castelo Branco" of the Portuguese Association of Writers); German: water, dog, horse, head , translated by Michael Kegler. Verlag Der Apfel, Vienna 2008.

Enciclopédia

  • Breves notas sobre ciência , 2006
  • Breves notas sobre o medo , 2007
  • Breves notas sobre as ligações , 2009

Bloom Books

  • A perna Esquerda de Paris seguido de Roland Barthes e Robert Musil , 2004

Poesia (lyric)

  • 1 , 2004

Estórias (short stories)

  • Histórias falsas , 2005

Teatro (theater)

  • O homem ou é tonto ou é mulher , 2003
  • A Colher de Samuel Beckett , 2003

Arquivos

  • Biblioteca , 2004

Investigações

  • Livro da dança , 2001
  • Investigações. Novalis , 2002 ("Prémio Revelação de Poesia" of the Portuguese Association of Writers)
  • Investigações geométricas , 2005

Awards

Tavares' work has won numerous awards at home and abroad, including a. with the Prémio Telecom de Literatura em Língua Portuguesa (Brazil), the Prize of the Portuguese Writers' Association Associação Portuguesa de Escritores (APE), the Prémio Branquinho da Fonseca , the Prémio Lex / Millennium BCP , the Prix ​​du Meilleur livre étranger 2010 and the Prix ​​Littéur livre étranger 2010 Européen 2011 .

His most important prize so far, however, was the Prémio José Saramago , which he was awarded in 2005. During the laudation, José Saramago said the sentences that have become legendary in Portugal: “Goncalo M. Tavares has no right to write so well at the age of 35. You'd like to beat him. ”This praise from the Nobel Prize winner explains why Tavares is considered a worthy successor to Saramago and António Lobo Antunes .

The French newspaper Le Figaro called him the "Portuguese Kafka". Important authors have reviewed his works, such as Eduardo Lourenço , Alberto Manguel and Moacyr Scliar .

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ CV ( Memento of the original from January 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 2, 2013  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.utl.pt
  2. ↑ Frankfurter Rundschau, June 13, 2012, p. B3.
personal data
SURNAME Tavares, Gonçalo M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tavares, Gonçalo Manuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Luanda , Angola