“Misericórdia”, the most recent novel by the writer Lídia Jorge, will be presented at the Manuel Teixeira Gomes Municipal Library, in Portimão, next Friday, January 13, at 18 pm.
It is, according to Dom Quixote publishing house, «one of the most audacious books of Portuguese literature in recent years, at the same time brutal and hopeful, ironic and kind, a mixture of tears and laughter», which tells the last year of the life of a woman.
Current member of the Council of State, Lídia Jorge was born in the Algarve in 1946. She lived through the most troubled years of the Colonial War in Africa. She was a member of the High Authority for Social Communication and a secondary school teacher, regularly publishing articles in the press.
He made his debut with “O Dia dos Prodígios”, in 1980, one of the most emblematic books of post-revolution Portuguese literature. Since then, he has published several titles in the areas of novels, short stories, essays and theatre. In 1988, “A Costa dos Murmúrios” opened its doors to international recognition, and was later adapted for cinema by Margarida Cardoso.
His books have been awarded the main national prizes, some of them for the body of work, such as the Latinity Prize, the Great Prize of the Portuguese Society of Authors – Millennium BCP or the Vergílio Ferreira Prize. Abroad, among others, Lídia Jorge won the first edition of the prestigious Albatros prize from the Günter Grass Foundation in 2006 and, in 2015, the Luso-Spanish Cultural Prize.
The novel “Estuary” (2018) received the XXIV Great Prize for Literature “dst” and was a finalist for the 2019 Médicis Prize. .
The book “O Vento Assobiando nas Gruas” won the Portuguese Association of Writers’ Romance and Novel Prize in 2003, having also received the FIL Prize for Literature in Romance Languages 2020, in the Mexican city of Guadalajara.
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