Lídia Jorge. Die Stunden der Nelken. Autorenlesung

In the organizer's words:

25.03.2026, Wed., 19:30
Lídia Jorge. The hours of the carnations. (Secessions Verlag)
Author reading and discussion in the series: Literature of the Neighbors

Three decades after April 25, 1974, the day of the Portuguese revolution, Ana Maria Machado, a first-person narrator living in the USA and daughter of a left-wing Portuguese journalist, is asked to make a television report for CNN about the so-called "Carnation Revolution". Portugal's young generation doesn't really want to know anything more about this past and sees the "heroes" of the revolution as traitors to their own ideals. But this changes for Ana Maria and two of her former fellow students when they set out together to report for the CNN.

A mesmerizing novel. Like the Mozambican Mia Couto, this woman deserves to be the second Portuguese-speaking voice to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. (Le Figaro)

Lídia Jorge was born in the Algarve in 1946. In 2007 she received the "Grande Prémio SPA/Millennium" for her life's work.

Moderation: Christian Ruzicska (Publisher)