António Lobo Antunes

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António Lobo Antunes, MD, GCSE, MD (born 1 September 1942) is a Portuguese novelist and medical doctor.

He has been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Personal life

Maria José Xavier da Fonseca e Costa's second daughter, José Hermano da Costa and his partner Clara da Conceiço de Barros Xavier da Fonseca e Costa's second daughter, died in 1970 and 1973, and Joana Lobo Antunes in 1973. They were divorced.

Maria Joo Esprito Santo Bustorff Silva, his second wife (whom he also divorced), was born in Lisbon, August 13, 1950), the daughter of António Sérgio Bustorf Silva and his wife Ana Maria da Anunciaço Santo Santo Santo Silva, who was born in 1981 and who has one daughter, Maria Isabel Bustorf de Fréterf Silva (born 1983).

Cristina Ferreira de Almeida, the daughter of Joo Carlos Ferreira de Almeida (Lisbon, 1941 – 2008) and his mother Natércia Ribeiro da Silva, were married for the third time in 2010.

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Life and career

António Lobo Antunes was born in Lisbon as the eldest of six sons of Joo Alfredo de Figueiredo de Figueiredo Monunes (1915), a noted Neurologist and researcher, close collaborator of Nobel physiology, and wife Maria Margarida Lima (born 1917). He is Joo Lobo Antunes and Manuel Lobo Antunes' brother.

He wanted to be a writer at the age of seven, but his father took him to the University of Lisbon's medical school at 16 years old. He trained as a medical doctor but then specialized in psychiatry. He never stopped writing during this period.

Lobo Antunes had to serve in the Portuguese Army by the time of his education (1961-1974). He became interested in both death and "the other" in a military hospital in Angola.

In 1973, Lobo Antunes returned from Africa. Many of his books were based on Angolan War of Independence. He spent many months in Germany and Belgium.

Lobo Antunes published Memória de Elefante (Elephant's Memories), his first book in 1979, in which he told the tale of his exile. Lobo Antunes decided to write every evening after the success of his first book. He has been practicing psychiatry as well, but mainly at the outpatient unit at Lisbon's Hospital Miguel Bombarda.

His style is said to be incredibly dense, heavily influenced by William Faulkner and Louis-Ferdinand Céline, and his books tend to be on the long side.

Fado Alexandrino (1983), As Naus (1988) and O Manual dos Inquisidores (1996) are two of his more than twenty books, one of which are the most popular are Fado Alexandrino (1983). His books have been translated into more than 30 languages.

He writes a biweekly newspaper column for Viso, Portugal's largest newspaper.

He was given the Grand Cross of Saint James of the Sword.

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Awards

• Prize of Portuguese Writers' Association (1985 and 1999)
• France Culture Prize (1996 and 1997)
• Rosalía de Castro Prize (1999)
• The Austrian State Prize for European Literature (2000)
• Ovid Prize, Romania (2003)
• Latin Union International Prize (2003)
• Jerusalem Prize (2005)
• Camões Prize (2007)
• Juan Rulfo Premio de Literatura en Lengua Romances (2008)
• France Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2008)
• International Nonino Prize (2014)