Lídia Jorge

Lídia Jorge was born on 18 June 1946 in Boliqueime, in the Algarve, into a family of farmers and emigrants. A graduate in Romance philology in Lisbon thanks to a Gulbenkian Foundation scholarship, she became a secondary-school teacher and lived as such, during the last years of the colonial war, in Angola and then Mozambique, among Portuguese soldiers. A visiting professor at the Faculty of Letters in Lisbon and the author of more than twenty books, she received the Camões Prize in 2026.

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• NovelThe Murmuring CoastA Costa dos MurmúriosLídia Jorge · 1988Literature