António Lobo Antunes

António Lobo Antunes, GCSE MD (born September 1, 1942) is a Portuguese novelist.

António Lobo Antunes (pronounced|ɐ̃ˈtɔniu ˈloβu ɐ̃ˈtunɨʃ) was born in Lisbon. At the age of seven he decided to be a writer but when he was 16, his father sent him to the medical school of the University of LisbonFact|date=January 2008 where he graduated as a medical doctor and later specialized in psychiatry. During this time he never stopped writing.

By the end of his education he had to join the Portuguese Army to take part in the Portuguese Colonial War (1961-1974). In a military hospital in Angola, he gained interest for the subjects of death and the other.Fact|date=January 2008

Lobo Antunes came back from Africa in 1973. The Angolan war for independence later became subject to many of his novels. He worked many months in Germany and Belgium.

In 1979, Lobo Antunes 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 novel, Lobo Antunes decided to devote his evenings to writing. He has been practicing psychiatry all the time, though, mainly at the outpatient's unit at the "Hospital Miguel Bombarda" of Lisbon.

His style is consideredWho|date=January 2008 to be very dense, heavily influenced by William Faulkner and Louis-Ferdinand Céline.Fact|date=January 2008

Novels

* "Memória de Elefante" (1979) Elephant's Memory
* "Os Cus de Judas" (1979) South of Nowhere (available in English)
* "Conhecimento do Inferno" (1980) Getting to Know the Inferno, Knowledge of Hell (available in English)
* "Explicação dos Pássaros" (1981) An Explanation of the Birds (available in English)
* "Fado Alexandrino" (1983) Fado Alexandrino (available in English)
* "Auto dos Danados" (1985) Act of the Damned (available in English)
* "As Naus" (1988) The Return of the Caravels (available in English)
* "Tratado das Paixões da Alma" (1990) Treatise of the Soul's Passions
* "A Ordem Natural das Coisas" (1992) The Natural Order of Things (available in English)
* "A Morte de Carlos Gardel" (1994) The Death of Carlos Gardel
* "Manual dos Inquisidores" (1996) The Inquisitors' Manual (available in English)
* "O Esplendor de Portugal" (1997) The Splendour of Portugal
* "Exortação aos Crocodilos" (1999) Exhortation to the Crocodiles
* "Não Entres Tão Depressa Nessa Noite Escura" (2000) Don't Go So Fast Into That Dark Night
* "Que Farei Quando Tudo Arde?" (2001) What Shall I Do When All Burns?
* "Boa Tarde às Coisas Aqui em Baixo" (2003) Good Evening to the Things From Here Below
* "Eu Hei-de Amar uma Pedra" (2004) I Shall Love a Stone
* "Ontem Não te vi em Babilónia" (2006) Yesterday I Haven't Seen You in Babylon
* "O Meu Nome é Legião" (2007) My Name Is Legion

* Lobo Antunes also published three books of chronicles that include the short texts published in magazines. At the moment Lobo Antunes writes two chronicles every month in "Visão", a Portuguese magazine.

ome awards

* Prize of Portuguese Writers' Association (1985 and 1999)
* France Culture Prize (1996 and 1997)
* Rosalía de Castro Prize (1999)
* The Austrian State Prize for European Literature (2000)
* Ovidius Prize - Romania (2003)
* Latin Union International Prize (2003)
* Jerusalem Prize (2005)
* Camões Prize (2007)
* Juan Rulfo Premio de Literatura en Lengua Romances (2008)
* France Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2008)

External links

* http://www.conhecimentodoinferno.blogspot.com/ (Getting to know Inferno: Lisbon, Movies, Musics, Books, Pictures, Poems and much more)
* http://www.ala.nletras.com/ (Information about the author, in Portuguese)