Ana Luísa Amaral
(Portugal, 1956)
Ana Luísa Amaral (1956) teaches English literature at the University of Porto. She …
Eugénio de Andrade
(Portugal, 1923–2005)
Eugénio de Andrade (the pseudonym of José Fontinhas) was arguably …
Ruy Belo
(Portugal, 1933)
Born in a small town in central Portugal, Ruy Belo received a law degree at the …
Rui Pires Cabral
(Portugal, 1967)
Rui Pires Cabral was born in a small city in northeastern Portugal. He lives in Lisbon, …
A. M. Pires Cabral
(Portugal, 1941)
The author of some forty books of poetry, fiction and essays, A. M. Pires Cabral was …
Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos
(Portugal, 1923–2006)
Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos has remained, his whole life long, an ‘amateur’ of art …
Ruy Cinatti
(United Kingdom, 1915–1986)
Ruy Cinatti was born in London but came as a child to Lisbon, where he later studied at …
Rui Cóias
(Portugal, 1966)
Born and raised in Lisbon, Rui Cóias studied law at the University of Coimbra, …
Gastão Cruz
(Portugal, 1941)
Gastão Cruz was born in 1941 in Faro, the capital city of the Algarve, Portugal’s …
Luís Vaz de Camões
(Portugal, 1524/5–1580)
Generally regarded as the greatest poet of the Portuguese language, at least until …
Daniel Faria
(Portugal, 1971–1999)
Daniel Faria was born in 1971 and died young, in 1999, at the Benedictine Monastery of …
António Franco Alexandre
(Portugal, 1944)
António Franco Alexandre was born in 1944 in the town of Viseu. He studied mathematics …
Manuel de Freitas
(Portugal, 1972)
Manuel de Freitas was born in 1972 and has lived in Lisbon since 1990, where he took a …
Vasco Graça Moura
(Portugal, 1942)
Born near Oporto but now based in Lisbon, Vasco Graça Moura, who studied and for a …
Manuel Gusmão
(Portugal, 1945)
Manuel Gusmão was born in Évora in 1945. A poet, essayist and university lecturer, he …
Herberto Helder
(Portugal, 1930–2015)
Born in Funchal (Madeira Island) in 1930. After having abandoned both his Law and …
Ana Paula Inácio
(Portugal, 1966)
Ana Paula Inácio was born in Oporto and currently lives on the island of Terceira, in …
Daniel Jonas
(Portugal, 1973)
Daniel Jonas’ eruption onto the Portuguese literary scene was delayed by the fact that …
Luiza Neto Jorge
(Portugal, 1939–1989)
Luiza Neto Jorge was born in Lisbon and in that city died, shortly before her fiftieth …
Nuno Júdice
(Portugal, 1949)
Nuno Júdice was born in 1949 in the village of Mexilhoeira Grande in the …
Rui Lage
(Portugal, 1975)
Rui Lage was born in 1975 in Oporto, where he now lives, but he has spent long periods …
Adília Lopes
(Portugal, 1960)
Adília Lopes self-published her first book, in 1985, under the title A Rather …
Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen
(Portugal, 1919–2004)
Some poets make poems the way a builder builds a home – verse by verse, brick by …
E. M. de Melo e Castro
(Portugal, 1934)

José Tolentino Mendonça
(Portugal, 1965)
Like Herberto Helder, but 35 years later, José Tolentino Mendonça was born in Madeira. …
Luís Miguel Nava
(Portugal, 1957–1995)
Luís Miguel Nava, who published the bulk of his work in the 1980s, was perhaps the …
Carlos de Oliveira
(Portugal, 1921)
The son of Portuguese emigrants to Brazil, Carlos de Oliveira was born in Belém do Pará …
António Osório
(Portugal, 1933)
António Osório was born in 1933 and published his first book in 1972, when he was …
Alexandre O’Neill
(Portugal, 1924)
His surname came from some Irish ancestors, but Alexandre O’Neill, born in Lisbon, was …
Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão
(Portugal, 1938)
Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão was born in Lisbon in 1938. Not only a poet, she is also a …
Teixeira de Pascoaes
(Portugal, 1877)
A mystic poet who felt profoundly connected to the humblest things and to the brightest …
Fernando Pessoa
(Portugal, 1888–1935)
It is sometimes said that the four greatest Portuguese poets of modern times are …
Manuel António Pina
(Portugal, 1943)
Manuel António Pina was born in 1943. He took a degree in law, worked as a journalist …
Antero de Quental
(Portugal, 1842)
Born on the Azorean island of São Miguel, Antero de Quental followed a path often taken …
Luís Quintais
(Portugal, 1968)
Born in Angola, Luís Quintais moved with his family to Portugal after the Portuguese …
António Ramos Rosa
(Portugal, 1924)
Born in Faro, the Algarve, in 1924, António Ramos Rosa moved to Lisbon in 1945, …
Jorge de Sena
(Portugal, 1919–1978)
Jorge de Sena is one of the most important Portuguese poets of the second half of the …
José Miguel Silva
(Portugal, 1969)
José Miguel Silva was born in 1969 in Northern Portugal, in the coastal city of Vila …
Gonçalo M. Tavares
(Portugal, 1970)
Gonçalo M.Tavares teaches epistemology (the theory of knowledge) at the University of …
Paulo Teixeira
(Mozambique, 1962)
Paulo Teixeira was born in what is now called Maputo, Mozambique. He is seen as the …
Troubadour poetry
(Portugal)
While the poetry of the Provençal troubadours has been widely translated and justly …
Cesário Verde
(Portugal, 1855–1886)
Son of a prosperous hardware dealer based in Lisbon, Cesário Verde was destined to take …
 
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