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Lídia Jorge
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Lídia Guerreiro Jorge
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| Born | 18 June 1946 Boliqueime, Loulé, Portugal |
| Nationality | Portuguese |
| Notable awards | Prémio Literário Município de Lisboa (1982, 1984) Prémio D. Dinis (1998) |
| Spouse | Carlos Albino Guerreiro |
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| www.lidiajorge.com https://mertinwitt-litag.de |
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Lídia Jorge GCIH (born 18 June 1946) is a prominent Portuguese novelist and author whose work is representative of a recent style of Portuguese writing, the so-called "Post Revolution Generation".
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Life
Lídia Jorge was born in the village of Boliqueime in the Algarve region of southern Portugal in a family of farmers and emigrants. She graduated in Romance Philology from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon and became a secondary school teacher. In this position, she spent some decisive years in Angola and Mozambique, during the last period of the Portuguese Colonial War, but most of her teaching career was in Portugal. She was a visiting professor at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon between 1995 and 1999. She also served as a member of the Portuguese High Authority for Media ((Social Communication)) and was a member of the General Council of the University of Algarve.
Main themes
- the colonial and dictatorial past
- the meaning of revolutions
- tensions between modern and postmodern society
- conflicts between generations
- family breakups
- the female condition
- emigration
Adaptations
Theatre
Lídia Jorge's play A Maçon was staged at the Dona Maria II National Theatre in 1997, directed by Carlos Avilez. A theatrical adaptation of O Dia dos Prodígios was also performed, directed by Cucha Carvalheiro at Teatro da Trindade in Lisbon. Recently, Instruções para Voar was performed by ACTA, at Teatro Lethes in Faro and Teatro da Trindade. The latter was directed by Juni Dahr Jean-Guy Lecayt was responsible for the scenography.
Cinema and TV
The novel A Costa dos Murmurios was adapted to cinema in 2004 by Margarida Cardoso. The short story Miss Beijo was adapted for Portuguese public television (RTP) in 2021 and directed by Miguel Simal. The Wind Whistling in the Cranes was adapted to cinema by Jeanne Waltz.
Representation
The literary agency that represents Lídia Jorge, Literarische Agentur Dr. Ray-GüdeMertin (of the literature professor and literary agent by the same name), is based in Frankfurt and is now directed by Nicole Witt.
Academy
Lídia Jorge's novels are translated into several languages. Her works, in addition to editions in Brazil, have been translated into more than twenty languages, namely English, French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Swedish, Hebrew, Italian and Greek, and are the object of study in Portuguese and foreign universities. Several essays have also been dedicated to them.
The University of Algarve, on 15 December 2010, awarded her a Doctorate Honoris Causa. In 2020, issue 205 of COLÓQUIO LETRAS Magazine was dedicated to her. In 2021, number 136 of the Spanish Magazine TURIA also dedicated its main dossier to the novelist. In September of that year, the University of Geneva, in Switzerland, inaugurated the Lídia Jorge Chair and in November, at the University of Massachusetts UMass Amherst, the protocol for a Lídia Jorge Chair was signed. This Chair was inaugurated in April 2022. In March 2024 another Lídia Jorge Chair was inaugurated, this time at the Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil.
The University of Aveiro, on the occasion of its 51st anniversary, on December 18, 2024, awarded the Doctorate Honoris Causa to Lídia Jorge, describing the Algarve author as "probably the most international of contemporary Portuguese writers, whose books travel the world, translated into the most diverse languages”.
Tributes
On 17 December 2004, the Municipal Council of Albufeira inaugurated the Lídia Jorge Municipal Library in her honour. To mark the 30th anniversary of the publication of O Dia dos Prodígios, the Municipality of Loulé promoted a large bio-bibliographic exhibition, “Thirty Years of Published Writing", between November 2010 and March 2011 at the Convento de Santo António dos Olivais.
In Portugal, the then President of the Republic, Jorge Sampaio, awarded her the Grand Cross of the Order of Infante D. Henrique on 9 March 2005. The President of the French Republic, Jacques Chirac, on 13 April 2005, decorated her as a Chevalier of the French Order of Arts and Letters, being later elevated to the rank of Officer, on July 14, 2015.
In 2021, Lídia Jorge was appointed member of the Portuguese Council of State by President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa for the period 2021-2026.
She is a regular contributor to Jornal de Letras and has written chronicles for Público and El País.
Distinctions
National orders
Grand Cross of the Order of Prince Henry the Navigator (9 March 2005)
Chevalier of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (13 April 2005)
Officer of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (14 July 2015)
Prizes
- Malheiro Dias Prize, Academia das Ciências de Lisboa (1981)
- Cidade de Lisboa Literary Prize (1982 and 1984), O Cais das Merendas
- Dom Dinis Prize, Casa de Mateus Foundation (1998), O Vale da Paixão and Notícia da Cidade Silvestre
- Bordallo Literature Prize, Casa da Imprensa (1998), O Vale da Paixão
- Máxima Literature Prize (1998), O Vale da Paixão
- P.E.N. Club Fiction Prize (1998), O Vale da Paixão
- Jean Monnet European Literature Prize, European Writer of the Year, France (2000), O Vale da Paixão
- Portuguese Writers Association Prize (2002), O Vento Assobiando nas Gruas
- Correntes d’Escritas Prize (2002), O Vento Assobiando nas Gruas
- International Albatroz Literature Prize, Günter Grass Foundation, Germany (2006)
- Portuguese Writers Association Prize – Millenium BCP (2007)
- Giuseppe Acerbi Special Prize Scrittura Femmenile, Italy (2007)
- French Psychiatrists Association, Michel Brisset Prize, France (2008), Combateremos a Sombra
- Latin Union International Prize (2011)
- Spanish-Portuguese Art and Culture Prize (2014)
- Vergílio Ferreira Prize (2015)
- Urbano Tavares Rodrigues Prize (2015)
- XXIV Grand Prize in Literature DST (2019), Estuário
- Rosalía de Castro do Centro PEN Galiza Prize (2020)
- FIL Award for Literature in Romance Languages (2020)
- Grand Prize for Chronicle, Portuguese Writers Association Prize /City Council of Loulé (2021), Em Todos os SentidoGrande
- Prize Vida Literária Vítor Aguiar e Silva (2022/2023)
- Portuguese Writers Association Prize (2022), Misericórdia
- Prize Eduardo Lourenço 2023 (Centro de Estudos Ibéricos), Misericórdia
- Prize Urbano Tavares Rodrigues 2023 (FENPROF), Misericórdia
- P.E.N. Club Narrative Prize 2023, Misericórdia
- Prize Fernando Namora 2023, Misericórdia
- Prix Médicis étranger, 2023, Misericordia
- Prize Fernando Namora 2024, Misericórdia
See also
In Spanish: Lídia Jorge para niños
