One feels like punching him!
Saturday, December 29th, 2007Portuguese writer Gonçalo M. Tavares hit my radar screen recently because of a short book of essays he wrote on Walser. Here’s a page on the author from the web site of his literary agency, Dr. Ray-Güde Mertin, featuring a pugnacious comment by our man Saramago:
Gonçalo M. Tavares was born in 1970. He spent his childhood in Aveiro in northern Portugal and studied Physics, Sport and Art. He teaches Theory of Science at a university in Lisbon. Tavares has surprised his readers with the variety of books he has published since 2001 and has been awarded an impressive amount of literary prizes in a very short time. In 2005 he won the Saramago Prize for young writers under 35. In his speech at the award ceremony, Saramago commented: “Jerusalém is a great book, and truly deserves a place among the great works of Western literature. Gonçalo M. Tavares has no right to be writing so well at the age of 35. One feels like punching him!”
