The Algarve writer Lídia Jorge won today the Urbano Tavares Rodrigues prize, with the novel “The Memorables”, worth 7.500 euros, announced today Fenprof, which instituted the award and which, with it, marks World Teachers' Day.
The award was unanimously awarded by the jury – writers and teachers Teresa Martins Marques, José Manuel Mendes and Paulo Sucena – to the work published in 2014.
In a statement, the National Federation of Teachers (Fenprof) states that the jury considered that the novel "constitutes an assumed mark of citizenship by bringing the 1974 April Revolution to the pages of a literary work, whose intensity of language and narrative mastery, combined with a skillful compositional technique, it makes her a notable presence in contemporary Portuguese literature”.
FENPROF announces on this World Teachers' Day, for the fourth consecutive year, the winner of a prize that, alternately, is for novel/fiction (Prémio Urbano Tavares Rodrigues) and poetry (Prémio António Gedeão).
It is a premium created in partnership with SABSEG Corretor de Seguros. The value of this prize is 7 euros and is exclusively for works published by teachers, active or not, in the year prior to its award.
FENPROF emphasizes that “with regard to the winner of the 2015 edition, Lídia Jorge, considerations are dispensed with for being well known in the world of letters and also in the academic world. Author of several works, Lídia Jorge was a secondary school teacher, having published her first work in 1980” (“O Dia dos Prodígios”).
The attribution session of the Urbano Tavares Rodrigues Award will take place on a date to be announced in due course.
Lídia Jorge has already received, among others, the Dom Dinis Prize, the PEN Clube Prize, the Grand Prize for Novel Novel from the Portuguese Writers Association (APE) and the Jean Monet Prize for European Literature.
In November of last year, Lídia Jorge was unanimously distinguished with the Luso-Spanish Art Culture Award 2014, awarded by the Ministry of Culture of Spain and the Secretary of State for Culture of Portugal, and, in March, he received the Vergílio Ferreira Prize from the University of Évora.
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