A year after being chosen to deliver the speech on Portugal Day, Portuguese writer Lídia Jorge, one of the country’s leading contemporary literary figures, has received the highest distinction awarded to authors writing in Portuguese, the Camões Prize. Jorge thus succeeds the Angolan poet Ana Paula Tavares, who received the prize last year.
Born in Tavira in 1946, Lídia Jorge is the author of more than a dozen titles, mainly novels, beginning in 1979 with the publication of O Dia dos Prodígios.
