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António Lobo Antunes
(born September 1, 1942)
António Lobo Antunes is a Portuguese novelist. He is regarded as one of the most important contemporary authors.
António Lobo Antunes was born in Lisbon. At the age of 7 he decided to be a writer but when he was 16, his father put him in Medicine College. During this time he never stopped writing. By the end of the course he had to join the Army, to take place in the war in Angola. It was there, in a military hospital, that Lobo Antunes become conscious of both death and the others. He came back from Africa in 1973. He worked many months in Germany and Belgium and, in 1979, after his divorce (1976), he published his first novel - Memória de Elefante Elephant's Memory - where he told the story of his separation. Due to the success of his first novels António Lobo Antunes decided to give up Medicine and devote all his time to literature.
António Lobo Antunes has assumed himself as an essential author in contemporary narrative. The beauty of his prose, his detail and rigor, as well as the complex architecture of his novels make him among the most intelligent and appealing writers of the second half of the 20th century. His name has been discussed as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature, which many critics consider him to have a significant chance of winning in the near future.
Famous writings and books: Memória de Elefante (1979), Os Cus de Judas (1979), Explicação dos Pássaros (1980), Conhecimento do Inferno (1981), Fado Alexandrino (1983), Auto dos Danados (1985), As Naus (1988), Tratado das Paixões da Alma (1990), A Ordem Natural das Coisas (1992), A Morte de Carlos Gardel (1994), Crónicas (1995), Manual dos Inquisidores (1996), O Esplendor de Portugal (1997) e Exortação aos Crocodilos (1999).
IN: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%C3%B3nio_Lobo_Antunes
Links:
Books: http://www.gnooks.com/discussion/antonio+lobo+antunes.html
Antonio Lobo Antunes: The Natural order of Things: http://citypages.com/databank/21/1009/article8582.asp
The Inquisitors' Manual: http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?isbn=0802117325
Facts and Fictions of António Lobo Antunes: http://www.plcs.umassd.edu/toc12.cfm