António Lobo Antunes, One of Europe’s Most Revered Writers, Dies at 83 NYT Par : Adam Nossiter 6 mars 2026 à 00:50 In a career studded with literary awards, he was the author of dozens of books that grappled with his nation’s legacy of dictatorship and colonialism. © Ulf Andersen/Getty ImagesAntónio Lobo Antunes in 1988. The literary critic George Steiner called him “a novelist of the very first rank” and likened him to Joseph Conrad and William Faulkner.