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Mário Dionísio
Mário Dionísio de Assis Monteiro (July 16, 1916, in Lisbon, Portugal – November 17, 1993, in Lisbon, Portugal) was a Portuguese critic, writer, painter, and professor. A multifaceted personality – poet, novelist, essayist, critic, painter – Mário Dionísio had a significant civic and cultural impact on 20th-century Portugal, particularly in the realms of literature and art. Biography Mário Dionísio de Assis Monteiro was born on July 16, 1916, in Lisbon. He was the son of Eurico Monteiro, a merchant and militia officer in the Military Administration, and Julieta Goulart Parreira Monteiro, a homemaker who had completed advanced studies in Piano. He is the father of Eduarda Dionísio. He graduated in Romance Philology in 1940 from the Faculty of Letters at the University of Lisbon. He worked as a high school and secondary school teacher and later as a lecturer at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon, following the April 25th Revolution. Mário Dion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisbon
Lisbon (; pt, Lisboa ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 544,851 within its administrative limits in an area of 100.05 km2. Grande Lisboa, Lisbon's urban area extends beyond the city's administrative limits with a population of around 2.7 million people, being the List of urban areas of the European Union, 11th-most populous urban area in the European Union.Demographia: World Urban Areas - demographia.com, 06.2021 About 3 million people live in the Lisbon metropolitan area, making it the third largest metropolitan area in the Iberian Peninsula, after Madrid and Barcelona. It represents approximately 27% of the country's population. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos De Oliveira
Carlos de Oliveira, GOSE (10 August 1921 – 1 July 1981), was a Portuguese poet and novelist. Biography He was born in Belém, Brazil, to a Portuguese family which moved back to Portugal in 1923. They settled in Cantanhede, in the small village of Nossa Senhora das Febres, where his father practiced medicine. In 1933 he moves to Coimbra, where he will stay for 15 years, in order to complete his studies. He graduates from the University of Coimbra in history and philosophy in 1947. The following year he settles definitively in Lisbon. In 1949 he marries Ângela, whom he had met at the university and was from Madeira, who will become his constant companion and collaborator. He died in his home in Lisbon on 1 July 1981. Writings In 1942 he published his first book of poems ''Tourism'', with illustrations by Fernando Namora, as part of the ''Novo Cancioneiro'' collection and in 1943 published his first novel ''Casa na Duna''. In 1944, the novel ''Alcateia'' is seized by th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portuguese Painters
Portuguese may refer to: * anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal ** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods ** Portuguese language, a Romance language *** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language ** Portuguese man o' war, a dangerous marine cnidarian that resembles an 18th-century armed sailing ship ** Portuguese people, an ethnic group See also * * ''Sonnets from the Portuguese'' * "A Portuguesa", the national anthem of Portugal * Lusofonia * Lusitania Lusitania (; ) was an ancient Iberian Roman province located where modern Portugal (south of the Douro river) and a portion of western Spain (the present Extremadura and the province of Salamanca) lie. It was named after the Lusitani or Lusita ... * {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portuguese Writers
This is a list of Portuguese writers, ordered alphabetically by surname. A * João Aguiar (1943–2010) *Manuel Alegre (born 1936), poet *Afonso de Albuquerque (1453–1515) *Ana Luísa Amaral (born 1956) *Eugénio de Andrade pseudonym of José Fontinhas (1923–2005), poet * Maria Archer (1899–1982) * Carlos Lobo de Ávila (1860-1895) B *António Gonçalves de Bandarra (1500–1556) * Ana de Sousa Baptista (born 1971) *João de Barros (1496–1570), historian *Ruy Belo (1933–1978) * Al Berto pseudonym of Alberto Raposo Pidwell Tavares (1948–1997), poet *Sara Beirão (1880–1974) * Francisco Manuel de Melo Breyner (1837–1903) *Agustina Bessa-Luís (1922–2019) *Abel Botelho (1855–1917) *António Botto (1892–1959) * Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão (1938–2007) *Raul Brandão (1867–1930) * Lurdes Breda (born 1970) C * António Cabral (1931–2007) *Luís de Camões (1527–1580) *Miguel Esteves Cardoso (born 1955) *Fernão Lopes de Castanheda (1500–1559) *Camilo Cas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1993 Deaths
File:1993 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Oslo I Accord is signed in an attempt to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; The Russian White House is shelled during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis; Czechoslovakia is peacefully dissolved into the Czech Republic and Slovakia; In the United States, the ATF besieges a compound belonging to David Koresh and the Branch Davidians in a search for illegal weapons, which ends in the building being set alight and killing most inside; Eritrea gains independence; A major snow storm passes over the United States and Canada, leading to over 300 fatalities; Drug lord and narcoterrorist Pablo Escobar is killed by Colombian special forces; Ramzi Yousef and other Islamic terrorists detonate a truck bomb in the subterranean garage of the North Tower of the World Trade Center in the United States., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 Oslo I Accord rect 200 0 400 200 1993 Russian constitutional crisis rect 400 0 600 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1916 Births
Events Below, the events of the First World War have the "WWI" prefix. January * January 1 – The British Empire, British Royal Army Medical Corps carries out the first successful blood transfusion, using blood that had been stored and cooled. * January 9 – WWI: Gallipoli Campaign: The last British troops are evacuated from Gallipoli, as the Ottoman Empire prevails over a joint British and French operation to capture Constantinople. * January 10 – WWI: Erzurum Offensive: Russia defeats the Ottoman Empire. * January 12 – The Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony, part of the British Empire, is established in present-day Tuvalu and Kiribati. * January 13 – WWI: Battle of Wadi (1916), Battle of Wadi: Ottoman Empire forces defeat the British, during the Mesopotamian campaign in modern-day Iraq. * January 29 – WWI: Paris is bombed by German Empire, German zeppelins. * January 31 – WWI: An attack is planned on Verdun, France. February * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alves Redol
António Alves Redol (29December 191129November 1969) was an influential Portuguese neorealist writer. Life Redol was born in 1911 in Vila Franca de Xira to Antonio Redol da Cruz, a shopkeeper, and Inocência Alves Redol. When he was fifteen, his articles were published in the local weekly newspaper, . After finishing secondary school in 1927, he traveled to Portuguese Angola where he stayed for three years. His stay in Angola influenced Redol's worldview and later literature. In 1936, he married Maria dos Santos Mota. Early work, 1930–1940 Redol published stories in the newspapers and in which he identified with the opposition to the Estado Novo. On 29 November 1936, in his first collaboration with , the short story was published. Kangondo had an African feel. Redol continued to work with the newspapers to publish chronicles and tales about the social issues in Ribatejo. Redol would not become known for his work as a journalist; instead, he became famous for his novels ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Cardoso Pires
José Cardoso (2October 192526October 1998) was a Portuguese author of short stories, novels, plays, and political satire. Life and career Early life Pires was born in the Portuguese village of São João do Peso, which is within the district of Castelo Branco near the border of Spain. His father was in the merchant navy and his mother was a homemaker. Pires studied mathematics at the University of Lisbon, where he published his first short story. He left university to join the Portuguese Navy, from which he was later discharged for disciplinary issues. His writing was greatly influenced by the city of Lisbon, the streets of which are described in great detail in his novels and short stories. Some of his paternal family members immigrated to the United States. Pires connected to American writing styles at a time when Portugal looked to France (and somewhat to north-eastern Brazilian regionalism) for its narrative models. In a documentary produced for Portuguese television, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manuel Da Fonseca
Manuel Lopes Fonseca, better known as Manuel da Fonseca (15 October 1911 in Santiago do Cacém – 11 March 1993), was a Portuguese writer A writer is a person who uses written words in different writing styles and techniques to communicate ideas. Writers produce different forms of literary art and creative writing such as novels, short stories, books, poetry, travelogues, p .... References 1911 births 1993 deaths Portuguese male writers 20th-century Portuguese writers People from Setúbal District 20th-century male writers {{Portugal-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eduarda Dionísio
Eduarda Dionísio (1946 Lisbon – 22 May 2023 Lisbon) was a Portuguese writer and playwright. Career She was the daughter of Mário Dionísio and Maria Letícia Reis Clemente da Silva. She graduated in Languages from the University of Lisbon. She was a secondary school teacher at several schools in Lisbon, including Camões Secondary School. She was also the author, with her mother, of school books for teaching Portuguese, published between 1972 and 1975. She was part of several theater groups at the Faculty of Arts and Ateneu Cooperativo, having founded the group Contra Regra (1983), where he dedicated himself to literary criticism. She collaborated in theater groups such as «O Bando» and « Teatro da Cornucópia ». As a teacher, she was a union leader at SPGL (Greater Lisbon Teachers' Union) in 1977. She developed various cultural activities (teaching, theater, press, and translation. As a translator, she translated authors as diverse as William Shakespeare and Bertolt Bre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
