Before turning to literature, Ant\u00f4nio Torres worked in journalism, first in Bahia, where he was born (S\u00e1tiro Dias, 1940), then in S\u00e3o Paulo, where he moved into advertising.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He lived in Portugal for three years, from 1965 to 1968, which he considers fundamental to his literary education, as here he had the privilege of living with the poet Alexandre O’Neill, the fiction writer Jos\u00e9 Cardoso Pires, and the best in cinema and theater.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He made his literary debut in 1972 with Um c\u00e3o uivando para a Lua<\/em>, which had a huge impact on critics and the public. Today, he is the author of an extensive and award-winning body of work, with several editions in Brazil and translations in many countries, from Argentina to Vietnam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n His awards include the Pen Clube do Brasil prize for Balada da inf\u00e2ncia perdida<\/em>, the Hors Concours<\/em> Novel Prize from the Brazilian Writers’ Union for O cachorro e o lobo<\/em>, the Machado de Assis Prize from the Brazilian Academy of Letters and the Grande Pr\u00e9mio Cidade do Rio de Janeiro, both for his work as a whole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 1998 he received the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres commendation from the French government for his books published in France up to that point: Essa Terra<\/em> and Um t\u00e1xi para Vienna d’Austria<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Seven of his novels have been published in Portugal: Meu Querido Canibal<\/em> (Figueirinhas, 2000), O nobre sequestrador <\/em>(Sa\u00edda de Emerg\u00eancia, 2003), and, by Teodolito, part of the Afrontamento group, Essa Terra<\/em> (2016), O cachorro e o lobo<\/em> (2017), Pelo fundo da agulha<\/em> (2018), Querida Cidade<\/em> (2023), Os homens dos p\u00e9s redondos<\/em> (2024), as well as a short story in the anthology O prazer da leitura<\/em> (Fnac\/Teodolito, 2016).<\/p>\n\n\n\n A Lusophone Corresponding Member of the Class of Letters of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences, Ant\u00f4nio Torres is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters, to which he was elected in 2013.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Before turning to literature, Ant\u00f4nio Torres worked in journalism, first in Bahia, where he was born (S\u00e1tiro Dias, 1940), then in S\u00e3o Paulo, where he moved into advertising. He lived in Portugal for three years, from 1965 to 1968, which he considers fundamental to his literary education, as here he had the privilege of living […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":22689,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"date":["2018-04-19"],"email":"","show_email":false,"interest":"","interest_en":"","hyperlink":"","footnotes":""},"ac_class":[118],"ac_bond":[122],"ac_section":[],"class_list":["post-21857","ac_scholars","type-ac_scholars","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ac_class-classe-de-letras","ac_bond-correspondentes-estrangeiros"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ac_scholars\/21857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ac_scholars"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ac_scholars"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ac_scholars\/21857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22690,"href":"https:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ac_scholars\/21857\/revisions\/22690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ac_class","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ac_class?post=21857"},{"taxonomy":"ac_bond","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ac_bond?post=21857"},{"taxonomy":"ac_section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ac_section?post=21857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}