by Erik Orsenna · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483833612
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In "The Cartographer of Lisbon," Erik Orsenna transports us to the year 1476, when Christopher Columbus, after a shipwreck off the coast of Portugal, takes refuge in Lisbon with his brother Bartholomew, a cartographer. Together, they plan a daring voyage to Cipango and the empire of the Great Khan, defying traditional routes and venturing across the Atlantic. Through the voice of Bartholomew Columbus, Orsenna narrates the years leading up to the discovery of America, a crucial period full of human curiosity, where characters such as Marco Polo and Friar Bartolomé de Las Casas parade.
Érik Orsenna is the pen-name of Érik Arnoult a French politician and novelist. After studying philosophy and political science at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris, Orsenna specialized in economics at the London School of Economics. He was a close collaborator of François Mitterrand and held several government positions in the 1980s and 1990s. He is a member of the Conseil d'État, having been appointed in 1985. He was elected to the Académie Française on 28 May 1998. He won the 1990 International Nonino Prize in Italy. For Voyage au pays du coton he received the second prize of the Lettre Ulysses Award in 2006.
