An expelled priest’s seminary, a teacher, one mayor, an old prostitute who goes to Lisbon and other characters make The Dead Choir, story of a Beira village, one of those “medieval” village, as he called them Aquilino Ribeiro, that António Tavares portrayed in the book that earned him the Leya Prize, announced yesterday.
“There is a narrator that I was telling these stories, which then remembered ficcionar reveals the phone with DN António Tavares, 55, professor and vice-mayor of Figueira da Foz, with no intention of dropping his life to be a writer.
These villages, “where little information came where there was no television, there was no newspapers and there was a strong connection to the land, “in the author’s description, are at the heart of the story of the day in 1968 when Salazar falls from the chair until the day of the revolution in 1974.” There is irony and tenderness that terrunho side, “adds . It is to them that references the title The Choir of the Dead. “They had to be dead, had to be swept away with the 25 April.” And swept? “I think that swept. There are newspapers, no sanitation …” He says he thought it was “an interesting time to explore.” A period far from their memories.
António Tavares was born in Angola in 1960 and came to Portugal in 1975. Moreover, it is in Africa that goes the first book, Words That I Should Drive One day, a finalist for the Leya Prize in 2013 and published at the end of 2014, the same time as it set to work to write the winning work 2015.
The first novel “was chosen to go to the festival the early works of Chambery. I was very happy to be a choice of readers, “he says. At the same time he admits that “was waiting for had been more widespread acceptance, but this, like all writers, I think.” Eventually also be among the finalists for the prize Fernando online Flirt. “With my dear Lydia George and John Thrush. It was a tasty defeat,” he tells us.
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