Miguel Torga

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Miguel Torga
Miguel Torga
Born	Adolfo Correia da Rocha (1907-08-12)12 August 1907 São Martinho de Anta
Died	17 January 1995(1995-01-17) (aged 87) Coimbra
Occupation	Writer, physician
Genre	short story, poetry, novel, play, essay, diary
Literary movement	Modernism
Notable works	Bichos, Contos da Montanha, Novos Contos da Montanha
Spouse	Andrée Crabée da Rocha

Miguel Torga (Portuguese:

He married the academic and literary critic Andrée Crabbé Rocha; they had one daughter, Clara Crabée da Rocha (b. Coimbra, 1955), a literary academic who became the second wife in 1985 of Vasco Graça Moura.

Literary work and recognition

He was a member of the literary movement Presença for a short period before founding two cultural magazines in the 1930s. After the publication of the book O Quarto Dia da Criação do Mundo he was arrested for two months, between December 1939 and February 1940.

His agnostic beliefs are reflected in his work, which deals mainly with the nobility of the human condition in a beautiful but ruthless world where God is either absent or nothing but a passive and silent, indifferent creator.

The recognition of his work earned him several important awards, as the Montaigne Prize, in 1981, and the first ever

Prizes

• Prémio Diário de Notícias (1969)
• Prémio Internacional de Poesia (1977)
• Montaigne
  Prize (1981)
• Prémio Camões
  (1989)
• Prémio Vida Literária da Associação Portuguesa de Escritores (1992)
• Prémio da Crítica, for his entire work (1993)

See also

• Portuguese Poetry

References