Music for a desert island... with Luísa Costa Gomes
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- 18:00 / Cancelled 18:00 / Sold out 18:00 – 19:00
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Auditorium 3 Calouste Gulbenkian FoundationThe next guest in this series is one of the most distinctive figures in Portuguese culture. Through novels, plays, chronicles and translations, Luísa Costa Gomes has built a body of work characterised by humour, curiosity and creative freedom. In Music for a Desert Island, she shares some of the music that has marked her life, revisiting memories, influences, and discoveries through listening and conversation.
Music for a Desert Island is a series of conversations in which music is explored through life experiences: memories, discoveries, refuge and transformation.
In each session, a guest shares some of the works that have shaped their journey. Through guided listening and personal stories, each encounter creates an intimate space for listening and open dialogue with the audience.
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Biographies
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Luísa Costa Gomes
Luísa Costa Gomes (Lisbon, 1954) is a writer, playwright, columnist, translator, and screenwriter, and one of the most acclaimed and versatile authors in contemporary Portuguese culture. A graduate in Philosophy from the University of Lisbon, she taught at the secondary-school level for much of her career.
She made her literary debut in the early 1980s and has since published novels, short stories, plays, chronicles, and opera librettos. Her work, characterised by irony, formal experimentation and reflection on contemporary society, has received numerous literary awards, including the D. Dinis Prize, the Máxima Literature Prize, the Fernando Namora Prize and the Grand Prize for Literature.
Alongside her writing, she has developed an important body of work as a translator, dramaturg, and literary advocate. For a decade, she was editor of Ficções, a magazine dedicated to the short story. Throughout her career, she has also collaborated with figures such as Philip Glass and Robert Wilson, for whom she wrote the libretto of the opera O Corvo Branco (The White Raven).