Agustina Bessa-Luís

Agustina Bessa-Luís, GOSE (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɐɣuʃˈtinɐ ˈbɛsɐ luˈiʃ]) (born 15 October 1922 Vila Mea, Amarante, Portugal) is a Portuguese writer.^[1]

From 1986 and 1987, she was Director of the daily O Primeiro de Janeiro (Porto). From 1990 to 1993, she was director of the Teatro Nacional D. Maria II (Lisbon).^[2][3]

Her novels have been adapted for the screen by director Manoel de Oliveira: Fanny Owen ("Francisca"), Abraham's Valley, and The Lands of Risk ("The Convent"), in addition to the Party.^[4] Her novel As Terras do Risco was the basis for the film O Convento in 1995.^[5]

Awards

She was awarded the Camões Prize in 2004.

Works

• A Sibila (1954; “The Sibyl”),
• ESTADOS ERÓTICOS IMEDIATOS DE SÖREN KIERKEGAARD [SØREN KIERKEGAARD’S IMMEDIATE EROTIC STAGES], Is based on Kierkegaard text from The Seducer’s Diary, The immediate erotic stages or the musical-erotic, – popular name: The Don Juan-analysis -, and The Journals, 1992

References

1. ^ http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/63019/Maria-Agustina-Bessa-Luis
2. ^ http://www.mulheres-ps20.ipp.pt/August-Bessa-Luis.htm
3. ^ http://agustinabessa-luis.blogs.sapo.pt/
4. ^ http://www.fandango.com/agustinabessaluis/filmography/p221488
5. ^ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0078760/

• Jens Staubrand: Kierkegaard International Bibliography Music Works and Plays, Copenhagen 2009. In English and Danish. ISBN 978-87-92510-05-1

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