The Algarve writer Lidia Jorge was on Wednesday awarded the Luso-Spanish Prize Art 2014 Culture awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Portuguese culture.
In a statement sent to newsrooms by Leya Group, which owns the writer’s publisher, D. Quixote – which this year produced the latest novel from the author’s Memorable – it is known that
Lidia Jorge was awarded for “create a relationship and bond of union between Portugal and Spain through its contribution to the mutual knowledge of both countries “, but also” for the value of his literary work, which addresses some of the fundamental questions of our time “, said the Leya Group, which is the owner of Don Quixote, Lydia Jorge publisher.
The award, in the amount of 75,000 euros, was awarded unanimously by a jury of experts from both countries, according to a note from the offices of State Secretaries of Culture of Portugal, Jorge Barreto Xavier, and Spain, Jose Maria Lassalle.
The jury was made up by the Portuguese José Bragança de Miranda, a professor at the New University of Lisbon, the writers Patricia Reis and Inês Pedrosa, and the director of the National Theatre Company Classic Helena pepper and as the Spaniards Trinidad Basarrate, counselor of Education and Culture of Extremadura, and Alfonso Saez, professor at the University of Évora.
The Luso-Spanish Prize for Art Culture biannual was created in 2006 by the tutelage of Culture in both countries in order to reward the work of a personality “who has contributed to improve communication and cultural cooperation between Portugal and Spain, strengthening the ties between the two countries”.
The prize already distinguished poet and Portuguese translator José Bento (2006), the teacher and writer Perfecto Cuadrado (2008), the architect Álvaro Siza (2010) and the director Carlos Saura (2012).
Lidia Jorge was born in Boliqueime, Algarve, in 1946. He graduated in Romance Philology from the University of Lisbon, and was professor of Secondary Education. It was in this condition that spent a few decisive years in Angola and Mozambique, during the last period of the Colonial War.
It was the High Authority for the Media member and joined the General Council of the University of Algarve.
The publication of his first novel, The Day of Wonders (1980) was an event in a period in which it inaugurated a new phase of Portuguese literature.
and followed if the novels The Pier of Picnic (1982) and News of Silvestre City (1984), both awarded the Literary Prize City of Lisbon.
But it was with The Murmuring Coast (1988), a book that reflects the past colonial experience in colonial Africa, the author confirmed its prominent place in the panorama of Portuguese literature.
After the novels The Last Dona (1992) and The Boundless Garden (1995), was followed by The Valley of the Passion (1998) awarded the Prix Dom Dinis Casa de Mateus Foundation, Bordallo of the Press House Literature Prize, the Prize of Literature Maximum, the Fiction of the PEN Club Award, and in 2000, the Jean Monnet Prize for European Literature (European Writer of the Year).
Lidia Jorge published yet The Wind Whistling in Cranes (2002), novel that earned the Grand Prix of the Portuguese Association of Writers and the Prix d’Written Chains.
combat the Shadow , published in Portugal in 2007, received the prize in France Michel Brisset 2008, awarded by the Association of Psychiatrists French.
With seal of Publisher Sextant, published in 2009, the book of essays Contract Sentimental , critical reflection on the future of Portugal. Followed her novel Night Women Singers (2011) and, in March 2014, Memorable , his latest novel. This novel was released on the same month, a session on stage at the Teatro Municipal de Portimão.
Lidia Jorge published anthologies of short stories, Husband and Other Tales (1997), The Sleeping Beauty (2003), and London Square (2008), in addition to the separate editions of The Instrumentalina (1992) and The Story Swimmer (1992).
Your play The Mason has been brought to life at Dona Maria II National Theatre in 1997, directed by Carlos Aviles.
Also a theatrical adaptation of The Day of Wonders was performed and staged by Cucha Carvalheiro at the Teatro da Trindade, Lisbon. The novel The Murmuring Coast was adapted (2004) the film by Margarida Cardoso.
Lydia George’s novels are translated into several languages. The literary agency that represents it is based in Frankfurt.
His work, as well as editions in Brazil, have been translated into more than twenty languages, including the English, French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Swedish languages, Hebrew, Italian and Greek, and are the object of study in Portuguese and foreign academics, having them been dedicated several works of essayistic character.
The President of France Jacques Chirac, the April 13, 2005 , decorated him with the Order of Arts and Letters of France, the degree “Chevalier”, which was later added the degree of “Officier”.
In 2006, the author was awarded in Germany with the first edition of Albatros Prize for Literature Günter Grass Foundation, awarded by the set of his work.
In Portugal, the President Jorge Sampaio, to March 9, 2009, awarded her with the Great Cross of the Order of Prince Henry.
The University of the Algarve, December 15, 2010, awarded him a doctorate Honorary , in a formal ceremony in the Great Hall of the Campus Gambelas.
The Latin Union, May 5, 2011, awarded him the prize of Latinity, Joao Neves da Fontoura. The Writers Associacióin en Gallega Language awarded him in May of 2013 the title of writer Galician Universal.
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the publication of The Day of Wonders , the Chamber Municipal de Loulé promoted the bio-bibliographical exhibition Thirty Years of Writing Posted , between November 2010 and March 2011, in the monastery of St. Anthony.
In Portugal, with the exception of book of essays Contract Sentimental , all your books are approved by the Publications Don Quixote.
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