Portuguese novelist António Lobo Antunes died on March 5 at the age of 83, news that came as a surprise to many. Journalist and writer João Céu e Silva, who maintained a long friendship with the author and wrote the biography Uma Longa Viagem in 2024, described him as a “revolutionary writer” and one of the greatest voices of the 20th-century novel. Over the course of his career, Lobo Antunes wrote more than thirty novels, about half of them published in the past 25 years. While his early works addressed the Portuguese Colonial War, his later books focused more broadly on human nature, emotions, and the complexities of the human condition. In recent years, the writer’s health had been gradually declining. Material taken from https://www.dn.pt/ltimas