António Lobo Antunes’s Exhilarating Novels Forced Portugal to Confront Its Darkest Moments

António Lobo Antunes’s exhilarating novels forced Portugal to confront its darkest moments

With an exacting modernist style and the courage to address fascism and colonialism head on, Lobo Antunes’s writing is a deluge of unforgiving truths in lush proseAntónio Lobo Antunes, Portuguese novelist who chronicled dictatorship and war, dies aged 83António Lobo Antunes, the Portuguese novelist who died this week in Lisbon at 83, had little patience for discussing his craft. The mechanics of writing were, he liked to say, “such a bore!”. Yet…

From 1957: Gabriela Mistral, Poet, Is Dead; Won Nobel Prize for Literature

She was recognized in 1945 for three “Soñetos de la Muerte” (“Sonnets of Death”), which were first published in Chile in 1922.