Today the writer Lídia Jorge was awarded the Guadalajara International Book Fair, for Literature in Romance Languages.
Lídia Jorge is the 30th distinguished with the main prize for literature at the Feira de Guadalajara, and is the second distinguished Portuguese writer, after António Lobo Antunes, in 2008.
The Mexican award, announced by the Spanish university professor Anna Caballé, who was part of the jury, joins the Inês de Castro Foundation / 2019 Tribute for Consecration Award, attributed last July to the work of Lídia Jorge.
The author, born 74 years ago in Boliqueime, in the Algarve, has already distinguished other awards, such as the dst Literature Grand Prize (2019), the Vergílio Ferreira Prize (2015), the Luso-Spanish Culture Prize (2014), the International Literature Award from the Günter Grass Foundation (2006), the Grand Prize for Romance from the Portuguese Writers Association and the Correntes d’Escritas Award (2002), the Jean Monet Award for European Literature (2000) and the D. Diniz da Mateus House (1998).
In Spanish, the writer has published the titles “Notícia da Cidade Silvestre” (Alfaguara, 1990), “O Jardim sem Limites” (Alfaguara, 1995), “A Costa dos Murmúrios” (Alfaguara 2001), “O Vale da Paixão” (Seix Barral, 2001) and “Marido e Outros Contos” (Ediciones Xerais de Galicia, 2005).
Last year, the author published “Em Todos os Sentidos”, in which she gathered chronicles of daily reflection. These chronicles are the result of an invitation made by radio director João Almeida, director of Antena 2, in late 2018, to collaborate on a program of his, with the same title.
According to the writer, “the chronicle is not a genre, it is just a kind of homage to the god who makes the grains of sand slide, aiming sideways. As we cannot beat Time, we write texts that challenge what we call chronic ”.
Last year, the novel “O Estuátrio”, by Lídia Jorge, won the XXIV Grand Prix of Literature awarded by the DST business group. This work was a finalist for the Médicis Prize.
In 2018, Lídia Jorge edited her first poetry book, “O Livro das Tréguas”, a selection of 50 of the poems that the author wrote and had never published.
Lídia Jorge debuted in 1989 with the novel “O Dia dos Prodígios”.
Since then he has published several titles in the areas of romance, short story, essay and theater.
Brazilian writers Ruben Fonseca, awarded in 2003, and Nélida Piñon, in 1995, are the other Portuguese-speaking authors distinguished with the main prize at the Guadalajara International Book Fair, on a list that also includes the Uruguayan Ida Vitale, the French Emmanuel Carrère, the Spanish Enrique Vila-Matas, Juan Marsé and Juan Goytisolo, the Italian Claudio Magris, the Colombian Fernando Vallejo and the Peruvian Alfredo Bryce Echenique, among others.
The prize was given for the first time to the Chilean Nicanor Parra, in 1991.
Lídia Jorge succeeds the Mexican David Huerta, awarded in 2019.
The Guadalajara International Book Fair, the second largest in the world, on the book market, after the Frankfurt fair in Germany, will take place this year from November 28 to December 6.
The prize will be delivered during the fair.
Portugal was the guest country of FIL de Guadalajara, in the 2018 edition.
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