Writer Nuno Gomes Garcia representing Portugal at the French festival – Observador
The writer Nuno Gomes Garcia was chosen to represent Portugal at the French Cognac Festival, which took place this year in Lisbon, from the 17th to the 22nd of November.
The French festival was created in 1988 by the association that gives it its name, in southwest France, as part of the centenary of the birth of European politician Jean Monnet (188-1979). The association aims to promote European literature and reading through various public events, including the literary festival.
Nuno Gomes Garcia is the author of the novels “O Dia em que o Sol se Apagou”, which was a finalist for the LeYa Prize in 2014, and “O Homem Domesticado”, published in 2017.
Gomes Garcia was selected from the authors who applied for a literary residency, entitled Jean Monnet, in Cognac, operated by the festival.
According to the Portuguese publisher, “the edition of ‘O Homem Domesticado’ is about to arrive in French bookstores, with the title ‘La Domestication’, published in the Collection iXe’prime, by Éditions iX, original in Portuguese by Clara Domingues”.
“The story of the novel tells us that it started a sense of creating a sense of love by humanizing it to the point of being able to humanize the concepts of a society to initiate a friendship. Women became masters of the world and reduced men to the condition of slaves”, according to the editor.
The political novel arrives, the novel of the 2nd round of the presidential elections in France, in a context of candidates coming out of the 1st round are the President, Emmanuel Macron, 44 years old, of the party In concrete, and Marine Le Pen , 53 years old, from the National Front.
Nuno Gomes Garcia was born in 1978 in Matosinhos, is a student of History and Archeology, and lives in Paris “for several”.
Portugal is the focus of this year’s edition of the festival, with two conferences on the country taking place today, also in the French city of the Nova Aquitaine region: “Portugal between the Atlantic and Europe”, by Yves Léonard, and “Discovery of the Portuguese Contemporary Literature and the Selection of the Reading Prize”, by Michel Chandeiregne.