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Lídia Jorge
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Native name
Lídia Guerreiro Jorge
Born (1946-06-18) 18 June 1946 (age 78)
Boliqueime, Loulé, Portugal
NationalityPortuguese
Notable awardsPrémio Literário Município de Lisboa (1982, 1984)

Prémio D. Dinis (1998)
Prémio P.E.N. Clube Português de Novelística (1999)
Grande Prémio de Romance e Novela APE/DGLB (2002)
Prémio Internacional Albatroz de Literatura da Fundação Günter Grass(2006)
Prémio Luso-Espanhol de Arte e Cultura(2014)

Prémio FIL de Literatura em Línguas Românicas de Guadalajara(2020)
SpouseCarlos Albino Guerreiro
Website
www.lidiajorge.com
https://mertinwitt-litag.de

Lídia Jorge GCIH (born 18 June 1946) is a prominent Portuguese novelist and author whose work is representative of a recent style of Portuguese writing, the so-called "Post Revolution Generation".

Life

Lídia Jorge was born in the village of Boliqueime in the Algarve region of southern Portugal in a family of farmers and emigrants. She graduated in Romance Philology from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon and became a secondary school teacher. In this position she spent some decisive years in Angola and Mozambique, during the last period of the Portuguese Colonial War, but most of her teaching career was in Portugal. She was a visiting professor at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon between 1995 and 1999. She also served as a member of the Portuguese High Authority for Media ((Social Communication)) and was a member of the General Council of the University of Algarve.

Publications and awards

Lídia Jorge's first publication, the novel O Dia dos Prodígios [The Day of the Prodigies] (1980), is considered to be a major contribution to the new wave of modern Portuguese literature which followed the end of the Estado Novo regime in 1974. The two novels which followed, O Cais das Merendas [The Wharf of the Parties’ Remains] (1982) and Notícia da Cidade Silvestre [The Wild Town Remembering] (1984) both won the Lisbon Municipality Literary Prize.

It was, however, with A Costa dos Murmúrios [The Murmuring Coast] (1988), a book that draws upon her experiences in colonial Africa, that the author confirmed her status as one of the leading figures in modern Portuguese literature.

In 1998 O Vale da Paixão [The Painter of Birds] won a number of awards. Four years later the novel O Vento Assobiando nas Gruas [The Wind Whistling in the Cranes] (2002) won the Grande Prémio da Associação Portuguesa de Escritores (Portuguese Writers' Association Prize) and the Prémio Correntes d'Escritas (Prize for New Currents in Writing).

In 2007 Lídia Jorge published the novel Combateremos a Sombra [We Shall Fight the Shadow], which was launched at the Fernando Pessoa Foundation in Lisbon. This novel won the Michel Brisset Prize 2008 awarded by the French Psychiatrists Association.

In 2009 the author published the essay Contrato Sentimental [Sentimental Contract], a critical reflection on the future of Portugal. In 2011 she wrote A Noite das Mulheres Cantoras [The Night of the Singing Women].

Os Memoráveis, published in 2014, is a book about the mythology of the Carnation Revolution, recovering the theme of O Dia dos Prodígios, her first book. In 2018, she published Estuário, about the vulnerability of the present time.

Lídia Jorge has also written for the younger audience: O Grande Voo do Pardal [The Great Flight of the Sparrow] (2007) illustrated by Inês de Oliveira, and Romance do Grande Gatão [Big Tomcat's Novel] (2010) illustrated by Danuta Wojciechowska.

Although she had written poetry from an early age, it was only in 2019 that she published her first book of poems, O Livro das Tréguas. Lídia Jorge has published anthologies of short stories, Marido e Outros Contos [Husband and Other Stories] (1997), O Belo Adormecido [The Sleeping Beau] (2003), Praça de Londres [London Plaza] (2008), O Amor em Lobito Bay [Love in Lobito Bay] (2016) in addition to separate editions of A Instrumentalina (1992) and O Conto do Nadador [The story of the Swimmer] (1992).

In 2020, under the title Em Todos os Sentidos, she gathered the chronicles she had read over the course of a year on Portuguese public radio, Antena 2.

Lídia Jorge's stage play A Maçon [The Mason] was performed at D. Maria II National Theatre in 1997.[1] A Costa dos Murmurios has been recently adapted for the cinema by Margarida Cardoso. O Dia dos Prodígios was adapted for the stage and directed by Cucha Carvalhelho; the play was performed at Teatro da Trindade, Lisbon, and Cineteatro Louletano in 2011.

On the 30th anniversary of the publication of O Dia dos Prodígios the Council of Loulé organised a commemorative exhibition of her work entitled 30 Anos de Escrita Publicada [30 Years of Published Writing]. The exhibition was open to the public between November 2010 and March 2011, during which a series of talks, discussions and guided tours took place.

In 2005 Lídia Jorge became France Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. In 2006 she attended a ceremony in Germany where she was awarded the first ever International Albatros Literature Prize by the Günter Grass Foundation for her work to date. She won the Latin Union International Prize in 2011. Lídia Jorge is Doctor Honoris Causa by the Universidade do Algarve (2010).

In 2008 the author took part in the First International Writers Festival in Jerusalem, Israel.

Lídia Jorge's books are published in Portugal by Publicações Dom Quixote, except Contrato Sentimental, published by Editora Sextante. Her German agent is Literarische Agentur Dr. Ray-Güde Mertin based in Frankfurt. She also has a French agent. The author's novels have been published in Brazil and translated into Spanish, French, English, German, Italian, Greek, Hebrew and Swedish.

At present Lídia Jorge writes a newspaper column twice a week for Jornal Público, a Portuguese newspaper.

Bibliography

Novels:

  • O Dia dos Prodígios (The Day of Prodigies) - 1980
  • O Cais das Merendas (The Quay of the Parties Remains) - 1982
  • Notícia da Cidade Silvestre (The Wild Town Remembering) - 1984
  • A Costa dos Murmúrios (The Murmuring Coast) - 1988 (Available in English)
  • A Última Dona - 1992
  • O Jardim Sem Limites (Limitless Garden) - 1995
  • O Vale da Paixão (The Painter of Birds) - 1998 (Available in English)
  • O Vento Assobiando nas Gruas (The Wind Whistling in the Cranes) - 2002
  • Combateremos a Sombra (We Shall Fight the Shadow) - 2007
  • A Noite das Mulheres Cantoras (The Night of the Singing Women) - 2011
  • Os Memoráveis (The Memorable) - 2014
  • Estuário (Estuary) - 2018

Short-Stories:

  • A Instrumentalina - 1992
  • O Conto do Nadador (The Story of the Swimmer) - 1992
  • Marido e outros Contos (Husband and Other Stories) - 1997
  • O Belo Adormecido (The Sleeping Beau) - 2004
  • Praça de Londres (London Plaza) - 2008
  • O Organista (The Organist) - 2014
  • O Amor em Lobito Bay (Love in Lobito Bay) - 2016

Children's Literature:

  • O Grande Voo do Pardal [The Great Flight of the Sparrow] - (2007)
  • Romance do Grande Gatão [Big Tomcat's Novel] - (2010)
  • O Conto da Isabelinha (Lilibeth's Tale) - 2018

Essays:

  • Contrato Sentimental (Sentimental Contract) - 2009

Plays:

  • A Maçon (The Mason) - 1997
  • Instruções para Voar (Instructions to Fly) - 2016

Poetry:

  • O Livro das Tréguas - 2019

Chronicles:

  • Em todos os Sentidos - 2020

Distinctions

National orders

  • Grand Cross of the Order of Prince Henry the Navigator (9 March 2005)[2]
  • Chevalier of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (13 April 2005)
  • Officer of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (14 July 2015)

Prizes

  • Malheiro Dias Prize, Academia das Ciências de Lisboa (1981)
  • Cidade de Lisboa Literary Prize (1982 and 1984), O Cais das Merendas
  • Dom Dinis Prize, Casa de Mateus Foundation (1998), O Vale da Paixão and Notícia da Cidade Silvestre
  • Bordallo Literature Prize, Casa da Imprensa (1998), O Vale da Paixão
  • Máxima Literature Prize (1998), O Vale da Paixão
  • P.E.N. Club Fiction Prize (1998), O Vale da Paixão
  • Jean Monnet European Literature Prize, European Writer of the Year, France (2000), O Vale da Paixão
  • Portuguese Writers Association Prize (2002), O Vento Assobiando nas Gruas
  • Correntes d’Escritas Prize (2002), O Vento Assobiando nas Gruas
  • International Albatroz Literature Prize, Günter Grass Foundation, Germany (2006)
  • Portuguese Writers Association Prize – Millenium BCP (2007)
  • Giuseppe Acerbi Special Prize Scrittura Femmenile, Italy (2007)
  • French Psychiatrists Association, Michel Brisset Prize, France (2008), Combateremos a Sombra
  • Latin Union International Prize (2011)
  • Spanish-Portuguese Art and Culture Prize (2014)
  • Vergílio Ferreira Prize (2015)
  • Urbano Tavares Rodrigues Prize (2015)
  • XXIV Grand Prize in Literature DST (2019)[3], Estuário
  • Rosalía de Castro do Centro PEN Galiza Prize (2020)
  • FIL Award for Literature in Romance Languages (2020)[4]
  • Grand Prize for Chronicle, Portuguese Writers Association Prize /City Council of Loulé (2021), Em Todos os Sentidos

References

  1. ^ http://www.iofilm.co.uk/fm/m/murmuring_coast_2004.shtml
  2. ^ "Cidadãos Nacionais Agraciados com Ordens Portuguesas". Página Oficial das Ordens Honoríficas Portuguesas. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
  3. ^ S.A, Innovation Point. "Lídia Jorge wins the XXIV DST Grand Prize in Literature with "Estuário"". dst group. Retrieved 2021-01-18.
  4. ^ "StackPath". www.fil.com.mx. Retrieved 2021-01-18.
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