João Pinto Coelho

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João Pinto Coelho (* 1967 in London ) is a Portuguese writer and Holocaust researcher . He lives in Lisbon , Portugal.

Life

João Pinto Coelho was born in London in 1967. He later lived in New York , where he studied architecture (graduated in 1992) and worked in a professional theater set up. At the same time, he began to become increasingly concerned with the Holocaust , which interested him since his youth, when he saw television programs on Portuguese television after the Carnation Revolution in 1974.

Pinto Coelho then spent the next phases of his life in the Portuguese capital, Lisbon , where he mainly worked as a teacher. In 2000 he decided to escape his tense and time-consuming life in the capital and went to a rural school in Valpaços. There, in the remote northeast of Portugal, he found the time and the peace to work as a writer in addition to his daily work and to devote himself further to his interest in the Holocaust.

In 2009 and 2011 he took part in two actions of the Council of Europe in the Auschwitz concentration camp , where he worked with historians to further process the events in the concentration camp. He lived in Krakow for a while , met with a large number of concentration camp survivors and did research on Jewish life before the Second World War . He then created the 1st Person / A Letter to Meir Berkovich program , through which Portuguese and Polish young people meet in Auschwitz. He has also been invited to a number of events on this topic, including an international conference on Auschwitz at the Gulbenkian Foundation .

In 2015 his first novel Perguntem a Sarah Gross ( Portuguese for: Asks Sarah Gross) was published. The manuscript of the novel made it to the final selection of the Prémio LeYa in 2014 .

Pinto Coelho wrote his second novel Os Loucos da Rua Mazur (Portuguese for: The crazy people of Rua Mazur Street) in the following two years. The plot is again connected to the Second World War and unfolds between the USA, northeast Poland and Paris and the period between the prehistory of the Second World War and the present. The work won the Prémio LeYa 2017.

Pinto Coelho is married and has three children. He lives with his family in Murça and teaches fine arts in Valpaços . The author cites his daily trips through the characteristic landscapes of the Trás-os-Montes region and its vineyards as a significant influence and source of ideas.

Publications

  • 2015: Perguntem a Sarah Gross (Dom Quixote 2015, BIS 2018)
  • 2017: Os Loucos da Rua Mazur (LeYa 2018), winner Prémio LeYa 2017

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview with João Pinto Coelho from June 9, 2015 (Portuguese) on ionline.sapo.pt, accessed on September 7, 2018
  2. ↑ a b c Short biography of João Pinto Coelhos on wook.pt, the online trade of the publishing group Porto Editora , accessed on September 27, 2018
  3. ↑ a b c d Viagem ao mundo de João Pinto Coelho: Os loucos somos nós - “A journey into the world of João Pinto Coelho: We are the crazy ones” , portrait of the author from November 16, 2017 in the magazine Visão , accessed on 28th September 2018
  4. ↑ a b Prémio Leya entregue este domingo a João Pinto Coelho pelo romance Os Loucos da Rua Mazur - "Prémio Leya goes this Sunday to João Pinto Coelho for the novel Os Loucos da Rua Mazur" , article from June 3, 2018 in the newspaper Público , accessed on September 7, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Pinto Coelho, João
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese writer and Holocaust researcher
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH London