António Lobo Antunes

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António Lobo Antunes, GCSE (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 medical school.^{[citation needed]} During this time he never stopped writing.

By the end of his education he had to join the Army, to take part in the war in Angola. It was there, in a military hospital, that he gained interest for the subjects of death and the other.^{[citation needed]}

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 considered^[who?] to be very dense, heavily influenced by William Faulkner and Louis-Ferdinand Céline.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] 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.

[edit] Some 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)

[edit] External links

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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)