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António Lobo Antunes
António Lobo Antunes born in Lisbon in 1942. Antonio Lobo Antunes is one of a handful of Portuguese writers who is named regularly as a possible candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature. Lobo Antunes emerged in the 1980s as one of Portugal's most important post-revolutionary authors.
He graduated in Medecine and later specialised in Psychiatry. He has devoted his life to both the practice of medicine and the writing of a number of books. He was awarded the Portuguese Writers' Association (APE) Grand Prize in 1985 for the novel "Auto dos Danados" (Act of the Damned) and, in 2000, for "Exortação aos Crocodilos" (Exhortation to the Crocodiles). His work has been widely translated, especially in Northern Europe.
Famous writings and books: Memória de Elefante (1979), Os Cus de Judas (1979), Explicação dos Pássaros (1980), Conhecimento do Inferno (1981), Fado Alexandrino (1983), Auto dos Danados (1985), As Naus (1988), Tratado das Paixões da Alma (1990), A Ordem Natural das Coisas (1992), A Morte de Carlos Gardel (1994), Crónicas (1995), Manual dos Inquisidores (1996), O Esplendor de Portugal (1997) e Exortação aos Crocodilos (1999).
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