Agustina Bessa-Luís

Agustina Bessa-Luís was born on 15 October 1922 in Vila Meã, near Amarante, to a father from the region and a Spanish mother; the Douro of her childhood marked her whole imagination. She left secondary school before finishing and trained through private lessons and reading, without going through university. Married in 1945, she lived in Coimbra before settling in Porto. The author of more than fifty books, she directed the daily O Primeiro de Janeiro, then the National Theatre in Lisbon from 1990 to 1993, and Manoel de Oliveira adapted several of her books for the screen. Winner of the Camões Prize in 2004, she died in Porto on 3 June 2019.

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• NovelA SibilaAgustina Bessa-Luís · 1954not translated into EnglishLiterature