![]() ![]() Although often dissatisfied with these adaptations, this collaboration was long and fruitful. ![]() In 1953, with the award-winning novel, “A Sibila” (The Sibyl), Agustina Bessa-Luís gained great recognition.įrom then until the first years of the 21st century, she published dozens of works, some of them adapted to the cinema by Manoel de Oliveira. ![]() She met her husband through an advertisement she published in a newspaper in which she sought a cultured person with whom to exchange correspondence, which clearly reveals her independent and determined temperament. Three years earlier she had married Alberto Luís. Her maternal grandfather’s library allowed her the first contact with French and English literature, which influenced her.ĭuring her adolescence, she even wrote novels under a pseudonym but it was in 1948 that she published the first book, “Mundo Fechado”. She was born in Vila-Meã, Amarante, on October 15, 1922, but during her childhood and adolescence she lived in several cities, yet maintained a strong connection to the Douro region which was notorious in many of her work. With dozens of published works and a unique personality, she has an enormous passion for Porto. “I live here, but Porto is not a place for me it’s a feeling”Īgustina Bessa-Luís is one of the most emblematic women of Portuguese culture. ![]()
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