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AUTHOR OF THE MONTH
Antonio Tabucchi
Our Author of the Month for August in partnership with the London Review Bookshop is Italian novelist and short story writer Antonio Tabucchi.
As a young man, Tabucchi travelled widely around Europe. At a second-hand bookstall close to the Gare de Lyon he happened upon a copy of a book signed by Álvaro de Campos, one of the many pseudonyms of the Portuguese modernist Fernando Pessoa. It was a chance encounter that defined the rest of his life, half lived in Lisbon and half in Siena as a professor of Portuguese literature. Portugal is present in almost all of his books; his masterpiece is probably Sostiene Pereira (Pereira Maintains), a powerful description of heroic resistance, by someone nothing like a hero, to political oppression under Salazar’s dictatorship.
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