Pereira Maintains

Pereira Maintains
First edition
AuthorAntonio Tabucchi
Original titleSostiene Pereira
TranslatorPatrick Creagh
LanguageItalian
PublisherFeltrinelli
Publication date
1994
Publication placeItaly
Published in English
1996
Pages207
ISBN88-07-01461-0

Pereira Maintains (Italian: Sostiene Pereira) is a 1994 novel by the Italian writer Antonio Tabucchi. It is also known as Pereira Declares and Declares Pereira. Its story follows Pereira, a journalist for the culture column of a small Lisbon newspaper, as he struggles with his conscience and the restrictions of the dictatorial regime of Antonio Salazar. Antonio Tabucchi won the Premio Campiello, Viareggio Prize and Premio Scanno in 1994 for the novel.[1][2] It was adapted into a film, also called Sostiene Pereira, in 1996. It was the basis for the French comic book Pereira prétend, made by Pierre-Henry Gomont and published in 2016.[3]

  1. ^ "El novelista italiano Antonio Tabucchi gana el premio Campiello". El Mundo (in Spanish). 19 September 1994. Retrieved 28 December 2009.
  2. ^ "A Tabucchi, a Raboni e a Chiara Frugoni i premi Viareggio". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). 25 June 1994. p. 31. Retrieved 28 December 2009.
  3. ^ Delcroix, Olivier (9 December 2016). "L'album Pereira prétend élu Grand Prix RTL de la BD en 2016". Le Figaro (in French). Retrieved 30 December 2023.