Pilar del Río explained

María del Pilar del Río Sánchez (born March 15, 1950) is a Spanish journalist, writer and translator. She is the president of José Saramago Foundation.^[2]

Biography

Pilar del Río was born in Castril (Granada) in 1950, to Antonio and Carmen, the eldest of fifteen children. She worked as a journalist at TVE and Sevilla's Canal Sur.^[3]

In 1986, del Río met the Portuguese writer José Saramago after she read all his books translated to Spanish.^[4] They got married two years later, in 1988, and decided to live in Lisbon, moving afterwards in 1993 to Lanzarote, one of the Spanish Canary Islands. She lived with José Saramago until his death, in 2010, also translating many of Saramago's works to Spanish. In 2010, after her husband's death, del Río acquired Portuguese citizenship.^[5]

Pilar del Río is president of the José Saramago Foundation. On May 26, 2017 she was awarded the Luso-Spanish Arts and Culture Prize at the National Library of Spain.

Works

• Los andaluces (written with Juan Teba). Barcelona: Editorial Epidauro, 1979.

Translations

Books by José Saramago which Del Río translated to Spanish:

• Todos os Nomes (Todos los nombres). Madrid: Santillana, 2001.
• A Caverna (La caverna). Madrid: Santillana, 2001.
• A Maior Flor do Mundo (La flor más grande del mundo). Madrid: Alfaguara, 2001
• O Homem Duplicado (El hombre duplicado). Madrid: Alfaguara, 2002.
• O Conto da Ilha Desconhecida (El cuento de la isla desconocida). Madrid: Suma de Letras, 2002.
• Ensaio sobre a Lucidez (Ensayo sobre la lucidez). Madrid : Santillana, 2004.
• As Intermitências da Morte (Las intermitencias de la muerte). Madrid: Alfaguara, 2005.
• As Pequenas Memórias (Las pequeñas memorias). Madrid: Alfaguara, 2007.
• A Viagem do Elefante (El viaje del elefante). Madrid: Santillana, 2010.
• Caim (Caín). Madrid: Punto de Lectura, 2011.
• Claraboia (Claraboya), (written in 1952). Madrid: Alfaguara, 2011.
• Alabardas (Alabardas), (unfinished). Madrid: Alfaguara, 2014.

See also

• José and Pilar, a 2010 documentary about her and Saramago.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Pilar del Río, a musa de Saramago | VEJA Meus Livros.
2. Web site: Up Magazine – TAP Portugal » Pilar del Río – Spanish. upmagazine-tap.com. English. 2017-06-30.
3. News: "Es la única mujer que me ha hecho sentir la cuarta dimensión del amor" . . 30 June 2017 . 3 August 2003 . Elena . Pita.
4. Web site: Como descobre Saramago... . 11 November 2020 . CITI . 17 October 1998 . Público . Público (Portugal) . pt . https://web.archive.org/web/20190421030411/http://www.citi.pt/cultura/literatura/romance/saramago/pil_sar.html . 21 April 2019.
5. News: Rego . Ricardo . Pilar del Río: 'Não sou a viúva de Saramago' . Sol . 30 June 2017 . 9 December 2013.