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Miguel Torga Portugal
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Miguel Torga (1907-1995) is regarded as one of Portugal’s
most outstanding authors. For many he is also the most important poet since
Fernando Pessoa. Born Adolfo Correia da Rocha in 1907 in São Martinho da Anta,
a village in Portugal’s poorest region – Trás-os-Montes – his life as the son
of a small farmer was not always easy. At the age of thirteen he had to go to
Brazil to work on his uncle’s farm. He returned to Portugal at the age of
twenty-two and began to study Medicine in Coimbra.
Despite
his obligations as a writer, he never abandoned his profession as a doctor and
always felt closest to the simple people from the region where he was born. He
encouraged resistance to dictatorship and fascism not just in theory; he even
suffered imprisonment for his convictions. Only seldom did Torga interrupt his
secluded life in the university city of Coimbra to make public appearances. He
was awarded numerous national and international prizes for his multifaceted and
comprehensive oeuvre. He published a total of 40 volumes: novels,
short-stories, plays, poetry and diaries. Miguel Torga’s oeuvre exudes the
scent of earth, reveals a dominant love for concrete things, and portrays the
simple people of northern Portugal, whose mysteries and myth gain entry into
the author’s lyrical and narrative work. Torga’s deliberately archaic style
possesses the vividness and originality of the language of the farmers of
northern Portugal. In its conciseness, his prose mirrors the ruggedness of
their rural homeland.
Represented for Dom Quixote,
Portugal.
Torga’s
work is now being published by Publicações Dom Quixote, Lisbon.
Please ask
for detailed information concerning the rights sold abroad.
A criação do mundo,
1937-1981
Bichos, 1940
Diários,
1941-1990
Rua, 1942
O senhor Ventura, 1943
Novos contos da montanha,
1944
Vindima, 1945
Portugal, 1950
Pedras lavradas, 1951
Traço de união, 1956
Contos da montanha, 1962
Poemas ibéricos,
1966