Autran Dourado
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Waldomiro Freitas Autran Dourado (born 1926) is a contemporary Brazilian novelist. He was born in the state of Minas Gerais. Going against current trends in Brazilian literature, Dourado's works display much concern with literary form, with many obscure words and expressions. Minas Gerais is the setting for most of Dourado's books, resembling the early to mid-20th century Regionalist trend in Brazilian literature. Most literary critics consider Autran's work to have similarities to Baroque literature.
In 2000, Dourado won the Camoens Prize, the most important literary prize in the Portuguese language.
[edit] Selected novels
- Uma vida em segredo 1964 - A Hidden Life
- Ópera dos Mortos 1967 - Voices of the Dead
- O Risco do Bordado 1970 - Pattern for a Tapestry
- Os Sinos da Agonia 1974 - Bells of Agony
- Opera dos Fantoches 1995
- As Imaginações Pecaminosas (Goethe Prize for Literature 1981)
- A Serviço Del-Rei 1984
- Confissões de Narciso 1997
Novels with English translations are posted above with their American titles.
