Helia Correia

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Hélia Correia (born February 1949 in Lisbon ) is a Portuguese writer . It is published by the Lisbon publishing house Relogio d'Agua .

Life

She was born in Lisbon in February 1949. Her father was in the resistance against the Salazar dictatorship and was imprisoned when she was a little girl. So she moved with her mother to their hometown Mafra , where she grew up.

She later attended secondary school in Lisbon, where she then studied Philology ( Romance Studies ) at the University of Lisbon . After graduation, she completed postgraduate studies in classical theater and then became a secondary school Portuguese teacher .

Her literary activity first became known to the general public in 1981 with the publication of the novel O Separar das Águas . Despite her love for poetry and theater, especially classical, she remained best known for her novels. She works as a translator and writer of plays, and publishes poetry and literature for children and young people. She received her first major literary award in 2001, with the award of the Portuguese PEN Club for her novel Lillias Fraser . Further awards for novels and plays followed.

In 2015 she received the Prémio Camões, the most important literary prize in the Portuguese-speaking world . The large jury, u. a. with Mia Couto , Correia unanimously accepted the award after being shortlisted in 2013.

Hélia Correia lives more withdrawn in Lisbon than a full-time writer.

Publications

prose

  • 1981 - O Separar das Águas
  • 1982 - O Número dos Vivos
  • 1983 - Montedemo
  • 1985 - Villa Celeste
  • 1987 - Soma
  • 1988 - A Fenda Erótica
  • 1991 - A Casa Eterna
  • 1996 - Insânia
  • 2001 - Lillias Fraser
  • 2001 - Antartida de mil folhas
  • 2002 - Apodera-te de mim
  • 2005 - Bastardia
  • 2008 - Contos
  • 2010 - Adoecer
  • 2014 - Vinte degraus e outros contos (short stories / fairy tales)

Poetry

  • 1986 - A Pequena Morte / Esse Eterno Canto
  • 2012 - A Terceira Miséria

drama

  • 1991 - Perdição, Exercício sobre Antígona
  • 1991 - Florbela
  • 2000 - O Rancor, Exercício sobre Helena
  • 2005 - O Segredo de Chantel
  • 2007 - Desmesura
  • 2008 - A Ilha Encantada (adaptation of Shakespears´ " The Tempest " for the youth theater)
  • 2013 - A Teia

Children's and young people's literature

  • 1988 - A Luz de Newton (seven stories about colors)
  • 2004 - Mopsos - O Pequeno Grego: O Ouro de Delfos (with illustrations by Henrique Cayatte)
  • 2008 - Mopsos - O Pequeno Grego: A Coroa de Olímpia (with illustrations by Henrique Cayatte)
  • 2011 - A Chegada de Twainy (with illustrations by Rachel Caiano)

Awards

  • 2001: Prize from the Portuguese PEN Club for Lillias Fraser
  • 2006: Literature Prize Prémio Máxima de Literatura for Bastardia
  • 2011: Literature Prize of the Inês de Castro Foundation ( Prémio Literário Fundação Inês de Castro ) for Adoecer
  • 2012: Iberian literary prize of the city council of Póvoa de Varzim and the Casino da Póvoa ( Prémio Correntes d'Escritas ) for the poetry collection A Terceira Miséria
  • 2013: Theater Prize of the SPA Society ( Grande Prémio de Teatro Português SPA | Teatro Aberto 2013 ) for A Teia
  • 2013: Vergílio Ferreira Literature Prize ( Prémio Vergílio Ferreira ) of the University of Évora for her complete works
  • 2015: Literature Prize Camilo Castelo Branco ( Grande Prémio Camilo Castelo Branco ) for the short story collection 20 Degraus e outros contos
  • 2015: Prémio Camões (most important literary prize in the Portuguese-speaking world )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hélia Correia vence Prémio Correntes d'Escritas - Hélia Correia wins “Prémio Correntes d'Escritas” literary prize , article from February 21, 2013 on the website of the radio station Rádio Renascença , accessed on June 27, 2015
  2. ↑ Person encyclopedia Quem é Quem - Portugueses Célebres. 1st edition, Temas & Debates, Lisbon 2009, ISBN 978-989-644-047-3 , p. 162.
  3. ↑ Portuguese Hélia Correia receives Camões Literature Prize , message from June 18, 2015 from WDR , accessed on June 27, 2015
  4. ↑ Camões Prize goes to Portuguese writer Hélia Correia , article from June 17, 2015 in the weekly newspaper Die Zeit , accessed on June 27, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Correia, Helia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Lisbon