We are pleased to invite you to an activity with one of the biggest names in contemporary Portuguese literature, the writer Lídia Jorge. Don't miss this opportunity to listen to a masterful lesson on Portuguese language, literature and culture.

Lídia Jorge. Foto: Alfredo Cunha

Free entry, upon registration*

*Register via mail until september 20th
The activity will be held in English, but with some readings in Portuguese.

Lídia Jorge was born in Boliqueime, southern Portugal, in 1946. She studied French Literature in Lisbon and spent some years teaching in Angola and Mozambique, during the independence struggle. She now lives in Lisbon. Her first two novels placed her in the avant-garde of contemporary Portuguese literature and since then she has received numerous prestigious awards for her work. In 2013, Lídia Jorge was honoured as one of the “10 greatest literary voices” by the renowned French Magazine Littéraire, and in 2014, she was awarded the Premio Luso-Español de Arte y Cultura. She has been awarded the Vergílio Ferreira Award 2015 for her body of work.

The International Book Fair (FIL) of Guadalajara has granted the renowned FIL Prize in Romance Languages 2020 to Lídia Jorge “because of the magnitude of her work, which portrays the way in which human beings face the great events of history”. The jury also highlighted Jorge’s literary career, “marked by originality and independence of judgement”. In 2021, Lídia Jorge took up a professorship at the University of Geneva which was followed by the Lídia Jorge Chair created by the UMass Amherst University in Massachussets in 2022. Her novel MERCY has received six prestigious awards, among them the Médicis étranger 2023 and the Transfuge Prize for the Best Lusophone Novel 2023. This year she attended the inauguration of a Chair in her name at the Federal University of Goiás, Brazil (UFG).

Organize
Camões Institute in Sweden & Embassy of Portugal in collaboration with the Department of Romance Studies and Classics and Stockholm University Library