Milton Hatoum

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Milton Hatoum

Milton Hatoum (born August 19, 1952 in Manaus , Amazonas , Brazil) is a Brazilian writer of Lebanese origin.

Life

In 1968 Hatoum went from Manaus to Brasília and then to São Paulo , where he studied architecture. With a scholarship, he studied in Madrid and Barcelona from 1979 and then as a postgraduate at the Sorbonne in Paris . In 1984 he returned to Manaus and taught French literature at the Universidade Federal do Amazonas and as a visiting professor of Brazilian literature at the University of California at Berkeley . In 1989 his first novel Relato de um certo Oriente was published , for which he received the Jabuti Literature Prize for the first time . For his second novel, published in 2000, he also received the Jabuti Prize.

Both novels reflect the tensions in the life of Lebanese immigrants, which result from living in two different worlds, the tropical Amazon region and their own cultural background.

In his two novels Dois Irmãos and Cinzas do Norte , Hatoum criticizes the Brazilian military dictatorship .

Hatoum's novels were translated into Italian, English, French. German and Spanish translated. Hatoum has u. a. Works by George Sand and Gustave Flaubert translated into Portuguese.

In 2018 he was awarded the Prêmio Juca Pato for A Noite da Espera .

Works

  • Emilie or death in Manaus . Novel. From the Brazilian Portuguese by Karin von Schweder-Schreiner . Piper, Munich / Zurich 1992, ISBN 3-492-03502-7 . (Original title: Relato de um certo oriente ).
  • Letter from Manaos. Novel. From the Brazilian Portuguese by Karin von Schweder-Schreiner. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-518-39930-6 . (Original title: Relato de um certo oriente ).
  • Two brothers. Novel. From the Brazilian Portuguese by Karin von Schweder-Schreiner. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt a. M. 2002, ISBN 3-518-41364-3 . (Original title: Dois irmãos ).
  • Ashes from the Amazon. Novel. From the Brazilian Portuguese by Karin von Schweder-Schreiner. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-518-42015-7 . (Original title: Cinzas do norte ).
  • The orphans of the Eldorado. The myth of the enchanted city. From the Brazilian Portuguese by Karin von Schweder-Schreiner. Berlin-Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-8270-0502-1 . (Original title: Orfãos do Eldorado ).
  • A noite da espera. Companhia das Letras, São Paulo 2017, ISBN 978-85-359-2992-8 .

literature

  • Albert von Brunn: Milton Hatoum. Between the Orient and the Amazon. TFM, Ferrer de Mesquita, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-939455-03-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Milton Hatoum. In: org.br. União Brasileira de Escritores, accessed July 30, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).
  2. ↑ To the book Between Orient and Amazonas ( Memento of July 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) on Nova Cultura. Retrieved July 30, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Hatoum, Milton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian writer
DATE OF BIRTH 19th August 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Manaus , Brazil