António Lobo Antunes is the Author of the Month at Lello Bookshop, on 15th February

Lello Bookshop hosts Portuguese novelist and medical doctor António Lobo Antunes, on 15 February, at 9.30pm, in the framework of the "Author of the Month 2020" initiative.

António Lobo Antunes, who has been named as a contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature, was born in Lisbon and at the age of seven he decided to be a writer, but when he was 16, his father sent him to the medical school of the University of Lisbon. He graduated as a medical doctor, later specializing in psychiatry. During this time he never stopped writing.

António Lobo Antunes is back in Porto for a tertulia with poet and plastic surgeon João Luís Barreto Guimarães. The work and literary career of "one of the greatest names in Portuguese Literature" are some of the issues to be conversed.

Lobo Antunes' first book to be published was "Memória de Elefante", in 1979. Since then, he has published 29 novels and chronics, published every week in the Visão magazine.

The writer won the Camões Prize in 2007, the most prestigious prize in Portuguese literature.

After the tertulia at Lello Bookstore, there will be a signing session.

Entrance is free, but limited to room capacity.

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