Manuel Jorge Marmelo
Manuel Jorge Marmelo (born 1971 in Porto ) is a Portuguese writer and journalist.
Life
He has been a journalist since 1989, particularly for the Portuguese daily Público (until 2012), and has received numerous awards for his work.
In 1996 his first novella O homem que julgou morrer de amor , the play O casal virtual and a first story in the anthology A cidade sonhada with texts by numerous Porto- based writers appeared. His second book, Portugués guapo y matador (1997), was adapted for the theater in 1999. He achieved his first public success in 1999 with the novel As mulheres deviam vir com livro de instruções , the 10th edition of which is available in Portugal and was translated into Spanish in 2005 and into Italian in 2008. In 2005 he received the Grande Prémio do Conto Camilo Castelo Branco for the volume of short stories O Silêncio de um homem só . In February 2014 he was awarded the Prémio Literário Casino da Póvoa for the novel Uma mentira mil vezes repetida . The book was translated into German under the title A Lie Repeated a Thousand Times.
plant
- O homem que julgou morrer de amor / O caso virtual - 1996 (Novelle / Theater)
- Portugués, guapo y matador - 1997 (novel)
- Nome de tango - 1998 (novel)
- As mulheres deviam vir com livro de instruções - 1999 (novel)
- O amor é para os parvos - 2000 (novel)
- Palácio de cristal, jardim-paraíso - 2000 (illustrated book)
- Sertão dourado - 2001 (novel)
- Paixões & embirrações - 2002 (Crónicas)
- Oito cidades e uma carta de amor - 2003 ( short stories)
- A menina gigante - 2003 (children's book)
- Os fantasmas de Pessoa - 2004 (novel)
- O Silêncio de um homem só - 2004 ( Short stories) - Grande Prémio do Conto Camilo Castelo Branco 2005
- Os olhos do homem que chorava no rio - 2005 (with Ana Paula Tavares based on an idea by Paulinho Assunção )
- O peixe Baltasar - 2005 (children's book)
- Postage: Orgulho e Renascimento - 2006
- Aonde o vento me levar - 2007 (novel)
- Uma mentira mil vezes repetida - 2011 (Romance) Prémio Literário Casino da Póvoa 2014. German: A lie repeated a thousand times , transl .: Michael Kegler , A1 Verlag , Munich 2015
- Somos todos um bocado ciganos - 2012 (novel)
- Crónicas do autocarro - 2013 (Crónicas)
- Zero à esquerda - 2013 ( short stories)
- O tempo morto é um bom lugar - 2014 (novel)
- A guerra nunca acaba - 2014 (novella)
Web links
Author's websites:
- http://manueljorgemarmelo.com/
- http://teatro-anatomico.blogspot.de/
- Website for Uma mentira mil vezes repetida : http://marmelo.blogspot.de/
- Pörträt auf Faust culture
- Manuel Jorge Marmelo on the A1 Verlag website :
- Book review about Uma mentira mil vezes repetida on www.novacultura.de (January 21, 2014)
- Book review of A Lie Repeated a Thousand Times on SWR2 (July 8, 2015)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Marmelo, Manuel Jorge |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Portuguese writer and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1971 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | postage |