Lídia Jorge

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Lidia Jorge

Lídia Jorge (born June 18, 1946 in Boliqueime , Algarve ) is a Portuguese writer .

life and work

She spent her youth as an only child with her mother and other female family members in the Algarve. After finishing school in Faro , she moved to Lisbon and studied Romance languages at the University of Lisbon . With her first husband, an officer in the Air Force , she stayed in Angola for a few years during the colonial war and then in Mozambique .

Her first novel O Dia dos Prodígios ( The Day of Miracles ), published in 1979, became a major work in modern Portuguese literature . In 1988, A Costa dos Murmúrios ( The Coast of Whispers ) followed, a book that reflects the processing of the past of the colonial experience in Africa . In 2011 she published A Noite das Mulheres Cantoras and in March 2014 Os Memoráveis .

Honourings and prices

Lídia Jorge won the Casa de Mateus Foundation Prize , the Bordalo Literature Prize from the Casa da Imprensa in Lisbon , the Prémio Máxima of Literature , the PEN Prize for Fiction and, in 2000, the Prix ​​Jean Monnet for European Literature . In 2005 she was named Chevalier des French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres . With O Vento Assobiando nas Gruas (2002), Lídia Jorge won the Grand Prize of the Portuguese Association of Writers. In 2006, together with her long-time translator Karin von Schweder-Schreiner, she was awarded the first ever Albatros Literature Prize for her novel . Lídia Jorge received an honorary doctorate from the Universidade do Algarve on December 15, 2010 on the occasion of the publication of her first work O Dia dos Prodígios 30 years ago.

Works

  • O Dia dos Prodígios. 1979, German: Der Tag der Wunder , 1989, from the Portuguese by Maralde Meyer-Minnemann. Afterword by Dieter Offenhäusser, Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-518-38430-9 .
  • Notícia da Cidade Silvestre , 1984, German: Message from across the street . Suhrkamp Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-518-38649-2 .
  • A Costa dos Murmúrios , 1988, German: The Coast of Raunens , 1993. Suhrkamp Taschenbuch, Frankfurt 1995, ISBN 3-518-38969-6 .
  • A Instrumentalina , 1992, German: Eine Liebe , from the Portuguese by Karin von Schweder-Schreiner, Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 978-3-518-40958-9 .
  • O Jardim Sem Limites , 1995, German: Paradise without borders , 1997.
  • O Vale da Paixão. 1998, German: The soldier's ceiling. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 978-3-518-41183-4 .
  • O Vento Assobiando nas Gruas. 2002, German: Milene , from the Portuguese by Karin von Schweder-Schreiner, Suhrkamp-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-518-41683-9 .
  • A Noite das Mulheres Cantoras , 2011 (not yet in German).
  • Os Memoráveis , 2014 (not yet in German).

From 1995 to 1997 the Publicações Dom Quixote publishing house in Lisbon published an eight-volume work edition entitled Obras completas de Lídia Jorge .

literature

  • Ilídio Rocha: Chronological Lexicon of Portuguese Literature . Based on the Pequeno Roteiro da Literatura Portuguesa , Lisbon, 1984. Teo Ferrer de Mesquita publishing house, Frankfurt 1999, ISBN 3-925203-62-1
  • Verena Auffermann : Lídia Jorge. Life in the war and after the dictatorship , in this., Gunhild Kübler , Ursula March , Elke Schmitter : Passions. 99 women authors of world literature. C. Bertelsmann, Munich 2009, pp. 227-232

Web links

Commons : Lídia Jorge  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Escritora portuguesa Lídia Jorge participa no Fórum das Letras de Ouro Preto. ( Memento of the original from March 13, 2016 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. In: Portugal Digital, October 15, 2014. Retrieved November 19, 2014 (Portuguese). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / portugaldigital.com.br
  2. ↑ Lidia Jorge's curriculum vitae on the suhrkamp website (PDF) , accessed on May 10, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Jorge, Lídia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Boliqueime