“What do I do now? I was here as well quietly …” This is the reaction of Helia Correia to be known yesterday won the Camões Prize in 2015, according to his partner Jaime Rocha. That is, the reaction to know the successor of José Saramago (Camões Prize 1995), Sophia de Mello Breyner (1999), Pepetela (1997) or António Lobo Antunes (2007) the largest award that since 1989 distinguishes literary creation . in Portuguese
Jaime Rocha began to tell that “with this little rain now,” Helia – for which just feels a shame for disturbing the peace collected we know it – launched a new novel, “that comes with power” in the hands of what he says he saw, “was nothing waiting” to be the 11 award-winning author, and that “was no longer waiting for the [Great Story Prize ] Camilo Castelo Branco. “, which won in May by Twenty Degrees and Other Tales
And finally Hélia comes into the phone.” These things are very difficult to put into words not I want to sound arrogant, ill-designed or ungrateful. ” It is the author of a work where the romance, the novel and the short story are masters through the poetry which also make up its work and, if risk it, enter also into the prose. The voice is calm, slow, almost girl, despite his 66 years.
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