António Lobo Antunes

António Lobo Antunes was born in Lisbon on 1 September 1942, into an upper-middle-class family; his father was a neuropathologist. A medical graduate in 1969, he was called up and served as a military doctor in Angola from 1971 to 1973, during the colonial war. A psychiatrist, he practised for several years at the Miguel Bombarda hospital in Lisbon before devoting himself to writing; the author of more than thirty novels in a very dense style, he received the Camões Prize in 2007. He died in Lisbon on 5 March 2026.

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• NovelThe Land at the End of the WorldOs Cus de JudasAntónio Lobo Antunes · 1979Literature