The parting of the waters

Published in 1981, "O Separar das Águas" was the author's first published book. "Villa Celeste" was published in 1985. With "Soma", from 1987, Hélia Correia approached a different social milieu, younger and with urban language.

All three are in this book.

It would be good if the Camões Prize, which was awarded to her in 2015, contributed to drawing attention to the work of Hélia Correia, an author averse to the spotlight and one of the great voices of contemporary Portuguese literature.

Hélia Correia (1949) is a contemporary Portuguese writer. She graduated in Romance Philology and is a secondary school Portuguese teacher. Despite her love of poetry, it is as a fiction writer that she is recognized as one of the revelations of Portuguese fiction of the 1980s generation, although her short stories, novellas, or novels are always imbued with poetic discourse.