Frederico Lourenço wins the Prize for the Person 2016 – the Daily News – Lisbon

university Professor, Frederico Lourenço, known as the translator of the Bible and the great classics of the greeks, was the choice of the jury

Assembled at the Seteais, the Jury of the Prize Person in 2016, composed of Francisco Pinto Balsemão (chairman), António Domingues (deputy-chairman), António Barreto, Clara Ferreira Alves, Diogo Lucena, José Luís Porfírio, Maria Manuel Mota, Maria de Sousa, Peter Norton, Rui Magalhães Baião and Viriato Soromenho-Marques, has decided to award the Prize Person 2016 the Frederick Lawrence.

Frederico Lourenço was born in Lisbon in 1963. He obtained his undergraduate Degree and his Phd in Languages and Literature Classics in the University of Lisbon, having taught also at the University between 1988 and 2009, before taking over the place of associate professor of the Faculty of Letters, University of Coimbra.

your professional background and creative, marked by the significant and abundant literature, is characterized by a variety of interests and accomplishments that include, in addition to the centrality of classical studies, music, the novel, poetry, theater, essay, studies the byzantines, the germanística and the history of dance. The trait most unique of its activity lies in the mode in which, over nearly two decades, Frederico Lourenço has been offering Portuguese language the great works of classical literature. Through a methodical, revealing an ambition served by rare scholarship, Frederico Lourenço translated, with accuracy, the basic works of Homer, the Iliad and Odyssey, as well as the two tragedies of Euripides, Hippolytus and Ion. The desire to disseminate the great classical culture by the public is manifested also in the adaptation for young people of such works of Homer.

In 2016, Frederick Lawrence published the first volume, a total of six, his most recent and ambitious project, which will extend until 2020: the full translation of the Bible into Portuguese from Greek sources, and in accordance with high criteria of integration, the contextual, historical and linguistic, of this book greater resonance and universal in all human history.

Frederick Lawrence is an example of discipline, work capacity and lucidity of the intellectual in the great plan of classical studies and humanistic, a fundamental part of cultural life and scientific of developed countries.

In a statement sent to newsrooms, the jury of the Prize, the Person provides “a public tribute to two of its members, recently deceased, Miguel Veiga and João Lobo Antunes”. “In addition to the groove long lasting that both have left on contemporary Portuguese society, we don’t want to leave was the feeling of loss and longing that the absence of his intelligence, humor, and personal sparkle in all of us deeply provoked”, you can read in the minutes of the Jury of the Prize in Person.

The Prize Person is an annual initiative of the Expresso newspaper, with the sponsorship of Caixa Geral de Depósitos, whose name is inspired by the name of Fernando Pessoa, and who proposes to recognize the activity of people in portugal play a significant role in the cultural life and scientific in the country. Against the current of an old national tradition, according to which the projection of some works of the greatest importance was only truly achieved after the death of their authors – and this was, precisely, the case of Fernando Pessoa -, the Award for Person you want to represent a new attitude, a new gesture, in recognition of the contemporary interventions, cultural and scientific produced by the Portuguese.

This is the 30.ª edition of the Prize in Person. The list of former winners is made up of the following names:

1987 – José Mattoso
1988 – António Ramos Rosa
1989 – Maria João Pires
1990 – Menez
1991 – Cláudio Torres
1992 – Antonio and Hanna Damásio
1993 – Fernando Gil
1994 – Herberto Helder
1995 – Vasco Graça Moura
1996 – João Lobo Antunes
1997 – José Cardoso Pires
1998 – Eduardo Souto Moura
1999 – Manuel Alegre and José Manuel Rodrigues
2000 – Emanuel Nunes
2001 – João Bénard da Costa
2002 – Manuel Sobrinho Simões
2003 – José Joaquim Gomes Canotilho
2004 – Mário Cláudio
2005 – Luis Miguel Cintra
2006 – António Câmara
2007 – Irene Flunser Pimentel
2008 – João Luís Carrilho da Graça
2009 – D. Manuel Clemente
2 010 – Maria do Carmo Fonseca
2011 – Eduardo Lourenço
2012 – Richard Zenith
2013 – Maria Manuel Mota
2014 – Henrique Leitão
2015 – Rui Chafes