Vera San Payo de Lemos (born 1951) is a Portuguese professor. She has translated many notable works from German into Portuguese and her awards include the

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in 2006. Her works have appeared on the stage and on television.

Life

She was born in 1951. Her first degree was in German studies which she obtained from the Faculty of Arts of the

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. For her master's degree she again studied in Lisbon but this time in the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the

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. In 1980 she began her collaboration with

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which resulted in the staging of many plays which they worked on together. Their work has included the plays of

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, German

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, American

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, the Irish playwright

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, Austrian

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, American

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, British playwright

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, Canadian Carole Fréchette and

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. For her work in translating the difficult works of Werner Schwab she was awarded the Austrian Prize for Literary Translation in 1998 and 2002. Her plays with Lourenco have been staged at Teatro Aberto,

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and

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. Her work was staged on television in 1980s and 1990s and she has made personal TV appearances and interviews. In 2003 she was awarded the Critics Prize from the Portuguese Association of Theater Critics and in 2006 she received the

. The German award was made on 22 March which is

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's date of Death.

Works include

* 1996 ''O Ensaio'' (TV Movie) (teleplay) * 1995 ''Alguém Olhará Por Mim'' (TV Movie) (teleplay) * 1994 ''O Tempo e o Quarto'' (TV Movie) (teleplay) * 1994 ''Um Sabor a Mel'' (TV Movie) (adaptation) * 1993 ''A Ópera dos Três Vinténs'' (TV Movie) (translation) * 1991 ''Desejo Sob os Ulmeiros'' (TV Movie) (teleplay) * 1991 ''O Suicidário'' (TV Movie) (teleplay) * 1991 ''Loucos Por Amor'' (TV Movie) (adaptation) * 1990 ''Happy End'' (TV Movie) (translation) * 1990 ''Romeu e Julieta'' (TV Movie) (teleplay) * 1989 ''A Rua'' (TV Movie) (teleplay) * 1987 ''Jardim das Cerejas'' (TV Movie) (teleplay - as herself) * 1986 and 2002 ''Odisseia no Terreiro do Paço'' (TV Movie) (play) * 1985 ''A Boa Pessoa de Setzuan'' (TV Movie) (teleplay)

References

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