António Lobo Antunes Portuguese writer dies
The great name of Portuguese literature, collector and secretary of the unconscious and memory, was 83 years old.
António Lobo Antunes, one of the greatest Portuguese writers of all time, died today, Thursday, at the age of 83.
Lobo Antunes, born in Lisbon in a bourgeois family, studied medicine and deepened psychiatry. As an army doctor, he was in Angola during the colonial war.
In 1979, at the end of the dictatorship, he published his first book, 'Memória de Elefante', and a few months later, the same year, came 'Os Cus de Judas', a work that included him in the group of prominent voices of Portuguese fiction.
Loneliness, death, love, madness and colonial war are common in his works. The weekly "Expresso" republished several interviews with the writer today, and in one of them he spoke of his way of writing: "The images reach me, I don't know very well where or how," he said in one of those interviews, adding that memory was the engine of his writing.
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